Reflections

Well, I viewed my first slideshare example, and I was quite impressed.  It is a website that allows you to view, download and share presentations.  What a fabulous idea! 

It’s a really worthwhile idea to support, because when you think about it, all over the world, presentations are being written that have been written many times before.  Everyone thinks they are forced to invent their own version of the wheel, when really, one that is already made will do just fine (or better).

All you need to be careful to do is vet the content of the presentation you might wish to use, and there you have it!!  You need not use presentations verbatim of course.  Editting, improving and resharing presentations would be an excellent way of putting back into the SlideShare community.

The actual SlideShare I viewed would be a good example to use in a short presentation to introduce Scratch as a tool for the classroom during school personal development days or for ICT integrators who are inservicing teachers on technology integration.  Scratch is of course one of the more simple and user friendly ways to use game design in the classroom. Here is the example SlideShare I viewed: