Slide Share

Slide Share

Slide share is a web 2.0 site that allows users to upload slides they have created and share ideas.  It is a YouTube for slide shows and power points.  It's overall purpose depends on who you ask, but it can serve to entertain as well as to educate. 

Many people and institutions can use Slide Share to serve their needs.  Students, professionals, businessmen, teachers, and entertainers can create slide shows on any number of topics.  Considering that the slide shows are manipulated by the click of a button instead of having to repeat the listening process, as in the case of YouTube, people can watch the slides at their own pace.  I've seen slide shows about politics, education, twitter, video games, and music lessons.

Slide Share was created by Rashmi Sinha in 2007.  She was named amongst the world' top 10 women influencers in Web 2.0. 

I can see using Slide Share as a form of entertainment and education.  There were a lot of how to slide shows and others that offered inspiration.  I even found one on how to prepare meals.  Professionally this site can be used to upload power point presentations that I use in the classroom so that others can use them too.  I can also find helpful slide shows on lesson plan ideas.  I found many such slide shows on literary terms but I honestly wasn't blown away by them.  

Here is a link: http://www.slideshare.net/