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Top Tools for Learning
Here are the Top 100 Tools lists for the last 3 years compiled from the Top 10 Tools lists of learning professionals worldwide

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TOP 100 TOOLS
Slideshare

SlideShare Logo

Slideshare is a site where you can host your presentations and share them with others.  Presentations can be linked to at the site itself or else embedded in a web page.  You can also synchronise an MP3 audio file (podcast) with the slideset to create a slidecast - a more powerful way of distributing presentations/tutorials.  Slideshare is also a tremendous resource site of presentations.
 

Website www.slideshare.net
Cost Free
Availability Online
2007 ranking 31=
2008 ranking 20
2009 ranking 7
Social Media In Learning resource Presentation sharing & Slideshare

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Presentation tools
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Comments from some of those who selected Slideshare as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2009

  • Wonderful possibility for building the online presentations and their integration in web sites Malinka Ivanova
  • This is a great way to share student work on a webspace. Mary Howard
  • upload powerpoint presentations and documents to share easily with others. Source of great learning resources. Maria de los Angeles Castro
  • upload powerpoint presentations and documents to share easily with others. Source of great learning resources too Jane Challinor
  • PowerPoints from presentations always available and can be embedded into blogs and Moodle. Leia Fee
  • I find this gives me fresh ideas, from both content and presentation point of view. Sarah Frame
  • a comfortable way to manage my presentations (archive, link, connect, browse)  Jochen Robes
  • allows me to post my slide shows for others to see, but, more importantly, allows me to find great slideshows from others. There’s some amazing information there and all free of charge. (Carol Skyring)

Comments from those who selected Slideshare as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2008

  • "Now, how could I share my slides without slideshare? Yes, there are other ways but slideshare is true community. You can provide all the boundaries you want or leave your slides out on the table to be "borrowed" by just anyone. I figure no one would copy EndNote slides if they didn’t need them. I search slideshare for topics I’m interested in or need to know about and the presentations I find are so helpful to me I do download them and study how someone else did what I want to do." Lissa Lord
  • "I've been making more use of Slideshare recently - both as a consumer and as a publisher.  It really is an easy way to make presentations available to others online."  Jane Hart
  • "Slideshare is an excellent sharing tool. Students can create a post their PPTs for class, and students can comment on them. It is an excellent tool for sharing ideas."  Beth Ritter-Guth
  • "a comfortable way to manage my presentations (archive, link, connect, browse)"  Jochen Robes
  • "As with other social networking sites, SlideShare has opened up the collaborative sharing of presentations.  The coupling of presentations with tagging and Creative Commons leads to creative use of shows worldwide for learning"  Britt Wattwood
  • "for uploading and sharing my powerpoint presentations"  Derek Wenmoth
  • "Other educators have provided excellent resources from Slideshare and slidecast, and I have been inspired to use it too!"  Anne Paterson
  • "A fantastic Web 2.0 tool that lets students and instructors to upload their presentations and share them online through a YouTube-like interface.  Also, it is a good place to discover presentations and slideshows from others."  Steve Yuen
  • "In my view, the YouTube of presentations. This is a great social networking site for sharing presentations. You can access some really interesting presentations here."  Manish Mohan
  • "I can share my slides with others"  Jose Carlos del Arco
  • "The idea of sharing in life is not just superb, it is a pointer to the solution of many problems in all levels. Identifying the existential importance of our relations within societies helps us overcome individualism and develop our humanity.  Slideshare as a tool is a perfect example of technology-driven enabler in global scale. Moreover, slideshare is a source of great material, thanks to their open-minded contributors. I've spent hours discovering fascinating presentations in various subjects."  Stylianos Mystakidis
  • "Wonderful possibility for building the online presentations and their integration in web sites."  Malinka Ivanova
  • "Great way to share .ppt files easily and without fuss"  Phil Bradley
  • "Can store my PowerPoint slides (and other formats) online easily. Also, it is a super site to visit to learn the art of crafting a presentation. When I first visited this resource, I realized I have a long way to go to create great presentation slides (with learning outcomes). In short, it is a wonderful place to explore and be inspired by amazing works of art that strike a point (impact and learning outcomes). Zaid Algasoff
  • "Great for sharing presentations. But I love the Slidecast facility where you can add an mp3 file to run with your slides. Great for vocab drilling because you can show the flashcards at the same time."  Adam Sutcliffe
  • "The hosting of PowerPoints that can be shared with others and embedded into webpages - a very tidy service." Richard Allaway
  • "My slideshare space and groups are also a fundamental part of my research and networking. This site is for sharing powerpoint slideshows and much more. It is used by a number of web gurus across the world and for this reason alone is worth the time. I enjoy receiving posts from users and seeing the number of users my groups’ attract increase."  Elaine Talbert
  • "Can be a nice resources for getting ideas and finding presentations for remixing and re-using"  Michele Martin
  • "Perhaps dangerous as a way of proliferating bad presentations, but also a great resources for finding and sharing great content"  Jeff Cobb

Comments from those who selected Slideshare as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2007

  • "Can be a great resource for getting ideas and finding presentations for remixing and re-using."  Michele Martin
  • "This site enables you to share PowerPoint presentations by providing an HTML code which you can publish in blogs. Fantastic!"  Ana Maria Menezes
  • "My inspiration source: The place where from you can download or watch different kinds of presentations from different people from all over the world. Now with a new feature: voice."  Gabriela Grosseck
  • "This is a tool that I started using in a shy way, but that I am growing fonder and fonder of. I especially like it because it is easy to upload and to link / embed the slide presentation to webpages and/or blogs. I am also impressed with the networking feature, which I find very interesting and inspiring. I am now starting to get interested in their new voice feature. It’s a tool to consider!"  Cristina Costa
  • "a great source of materials, communication and learning."  Jose Luis Cabello
  • "A very good tool to share and find very good presentations in Flash (many of them including the original document in PowerPoint, Open Office or Acrobat). It is the YouTube of presentations."  David Delgado
  • "for sharing my works hoping to receive comments and feedback. But they download and lurk" Gianni Marconato
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