Sunday, November 16, 2008

Thing 18: Slideshare

What did you like about the presentation you embedded? How might Slideshare be useful in the classroom? out of the classroom?
I just attended a workshop on Fair Use and Copyright, but the presenter did not provide an online version of her .ppt presentation. I conducted a search using the term "fair use."The presentation I downloaded was created for a 7th grade class, which is also my audience. Slideshare is useful because it saves time in creating the presentation myself if I find a topic similar enough to one I wish to teach. I'm a firm believer in sharing resources. However, like everything else on the web, evaluation of information is necessary. The howto presentations may be useful both for classroom and home use. I conducted a search using "howto moodle" and found one relating to creating quizzes on moodle. We recently held a workshop on this topic, so I emailed the link to one of the presenters.

2 comments:

APHS Media Center said...

I like the inclusion of information about "creative commons." As media specialists who will see more and more use of this terminology at sites students will visit, we've got to stay ahead of the curve with regard to sorting through it all.

Scot said...

Hey, that's a good slideshow. We just finished up a unit on copyright in my Mass Media class for high schoolers. I'll have to use that next semester.