Thing 18

I really liked Slideshare!

Here is a presentation that I think that students will really enjoy when we talk about genetics and cloning. I ALWAYS get questions like, "What will happen if we cross animal x with animal y?" So this will add a little humor to our discussion :)

Clone Animals In Next Century

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I also like the fact that students would be able to view this presentation without being able to open, access, and print it like they would if I just posted the PowerPoint file. I know that might not sound good, but I have too many students that want to print everything. And then some students who don't know how to adjust print settings, so they end up coming to class with a pile of papers where they have printed one slide per page. And it's a presentation that they did not need to print--they should have viewed the presentation and taken notes (or something in that format) on the main topics. I want them to learn how to take information from a presentation, not how to take the entire presentation with them :)

I also joined SlideShare and uploaded a presentation. Well, I think I uploaded a presentation. It didn't work on my first few attempts, although it said it was working on it for about 45 minutes. Then I went and created a 2-slide presentation and saved it on my desktop. It uploaded it right away and said that it is working on publishing it. I'm sure that I could figure it out with a little more "tinkering." I like the fact that you can change the privacy settings. I'm still, even after learning about all this technology, a little wary about just posting whatever out there on the internet. But overall, I really liked this site!