Finding & Sharing Presentations

As mentioned previously there are a number of specific search engines that can help you find Powerpoint presentations that may be available online. In addition to these search engines you may also want to access two social media sites Scribd.com and SlideShare.com. Both are free sites and allow full searching of their online content, but once you register you can also use the site as a virtual site to store and share your presentations. For example, I set up a site Regis University School of Physical Therapy that now contains several research posters and slide presentations from our student research night from last spring. Each uploaded item can then be shared with others via a link. In addition, each item can have specific permissions associated with it such as view only or downloadable, which gives users control over how their content is viewed or used.

Another nice feature of these sites is that they provide a number of ways in which you can share presentations with others. One way is to embed the presentation into a blog or web page. These embedded presentations can then be viewed on that site, shareed with others, or even taken and re-embedded on your own site or as a Facebook post. For example, here is an embedded presentation that I sent to my family yesterday that given some context to the earthquake in Haiti (just use the controls below the image to go forward or backward in the presentation:

Haiti Earthquake 12 January 2010

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I hope you take some time to explore these sites for content that may help your students and you. Feel free to reply to this post with some favorites.

Tim