SlideShare in an Educational Setting

Rebekah Lowery, Syd Morrison and Lori Moore

What can slideshare do for you?

Everyone, students and teachers alike, have made many PowerPoint presentations; most people have made so many they are tired of the same old thing. Slideshare provides a new way to look at the old PowerPoint and make it more useful for students and teachers.

AGE OF ENGAGEMENT

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Collaboration • Enrich face-to-face educational setting • Students are editors, writers, and

publishers • Promotes students interaction • Facilitates writing as a process• Promotes creativity

•Allows world-wide publishing•Art of teaching is faster and more effective•Focuses on writing, editing, and revising

Globalization

Promotes Productivity

•Allows students and teachers access to work from many locations

•Conflicting student schedules don’t hamper group projects

•Students are more interested in completed their work on a global, interactive stage

Disadvantages

• Students may not be allowed to check email at school

• Many students do not have internet access from home

• Schools have limited numbers of computersOverall, the advantages outweigh the

disadvantages.