By: Carol Consuelo Casas Triviño

MATERIALS DESIGN FOR VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS COURSE

SLIDESHAREIt is a slideshow hosting website 2.0 which was thrown to the market in 2006. It is considerated similar like you tube but guided only to slide presentations.

This tool let users post and share in public or private slide presentations made in Power Point, PDFs, Microsoft Word, Open Office, Texts without format and also some audio and video formats.

How to use SlideShare?

Although it was created firstly for company’ employees, now it is used for any person who want to share any kind of information such as technology, education, sports, hobbies, etc., it is a free and easy application to use.

How to use SlideShare?

The following are some steps you can use to start using Slideshare: Go to www.slideshare.net Log in if you have just opened an account. If you do not have it, you can go to the link sign up to create one or you

can start using your Facebook account. Go to upload now Choose the file you like to add from your explorer. Click in the open bottom. Wait for the document upload announcement. Then publish it Finally you sign out from SlideShareYou can share your documents in a social web site or send it through an e- mail, also you can add it in a blog or web site and you can save the presentation in your personal computer if you like,too.

How to use SlideShare for teaching

Teaching is one of the hardest professions and teachers have one of the most important roles in this process of education which consist in guiding the students’ processes of learning according to each way of learning and prepare them for their professional lives.What is more, technology is presented in our current days and it is transforming the way of teaching giving the opportunity to call the attention to our students in their studies, presenting the topics and concepts in other way leaving the white board, markers and eraser as a supportive material.I would use SlideShare for teaching to my students in order to call them the attention to learn a new topic, first and once I have the topic I will create a slide presentation with it, where I can present the concepts or definitions of the topic, some examples into their real lives context, also I will try to use colors and fonts with a nice style and if it is possible I would add a video to create the topic more interesting, it has to be something simple but startling.

Why to use SlideShare in teaching?

As I exposed in the paragraph above Technology and the ICTs are presented nowadays, and they are giving us tools to work in a different way to our students, to call the attention and enthusiasm of them in learning, so using Slideshare or any other tool in teaching give to the teacher the opportunity to expose a topic totally different from an ordinary class. It will create an incredible expectation on the part of students, the use of Slideshare is easier than any other tool, is free and everybody can access to the content registered there. In my opinion the most important in a class is to have interested and excited students to learn and then apply the learning in their real contexts, it is so that using Slideshare in our daily teaching give us the chance to achieve our aims arranged at the beginning of the year or a term and the most important to have happy students, concerned in their own process of learning.

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• Martinez, L. (2015). Softaula. Slideshare image. Taken from:https://www.google.com.co/search?q=signo+de+interrogacion&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=662&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiiv7bu2r_SAhVK7yYKHYlVDrMQ_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=slideshare+presentaciones&*&imgrc=PLF9OcfEeRz-UM:

• Chainimage (2015). Business people image. Taken from:https://www.google.com.co/search?q=business&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=662&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiwobPa3MDSAhVN-mMKHe8wDs8Q_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=business+people&*&imgrc=V08zUPfEeTfr7M:• Koster, F. (2016). Education and skills today image. Taken from:https://www.google.com.co/search?q=business&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=662&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiwobPa3MDSAhVN-mMKHe8wDs8Q_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=education&*&imgrc=fo1MlAooBqg_mM:• Rajk. Sports and Technology image. Taken from:https://www.google.com.co/search?q=business&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=662&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiwobPa3MDSAhVN-mMKHe8wDs8Q_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=sports+computers&*&imgrc=lPpdyXf1H9qgHM:

References

References• Wikipedia (2016). Slideshare facts. Taken from: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/SlideShare• In slideshare. Web site. Taken from: https://es.slideshare.net/

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