I really like the idea of SlideShare. If I can organise a class blog for my Year 6 students (see previous post), then we could also post any PowerPoint presentations we develop on there, via SlideShare. My only concern with SlideShare would be the same one that I have with YouTube: you're never quite sure what will come up as the "featured" or "recommended" presentations. What if it is adult content? In the past I have shown YouTube videos direct from the website, but now I try to convert the clips first and insert them into my Smart NoteBook presentations (IWB software) so that I know for certain what the students will see. You can also do this with SlideShare of course, but if the students need to go to the site to post their presentations, it could be a problem. Maybe I can post on behalf of the students...
The presentation below would be good to show to my Year 4 students, when I do an in-depth explanation of script types. I particularly like the way the author has used photographs of real signs in Japan (from the flickr.com website) to show examples of different scripts. I must remember to take a look at flickr.com myself. (or is that already on our list of 23 Things??
The presentation below would be good to show to my Year 4 students, when I do an in-depth explanation of script types. I particularly like the way the author has used photographs of real signs in Japan (from the flickr.com website) to show examples of different scripts. I must remember to take a look at flickr.com myself. (or is that already on our list of 23 Things??
I share your concerns about slideshare.net. But... it hasn't happened, yet! They're pretty good at monitoring content on there and removing inappropriate stuff (YouTube has just gotten too big and it's harder for them).
返信削除But I love the ability to embed them in other places. It makes it so much easier to view presentations than having to download it and open it up in PowerPoint (if you even have the software!). I also love how you can attach audio and video to the slideshows and have it embed as well. Great for talking books!
By the way, I'm having a lot of fun navigating your blog in Japanese! I think I'm picking up some kanji (is that the right word for the script?)
返信削除I haven't tried out a presentation at SlideShare that includes audio and video, all of the ones that I looked at seemed to be fairly "static". I was wondering about that.
返信削除I'm having fun myself, trying to navigate in Japanese!!! You're right, kanji is one of the three scripts used in Japanese writing (kanji are the complicated-looking ones, that came originally from China), along with hiragana and katakana. You need to be able to read several hundred kanji to be fully literate in Japanese.
Unfortunately, because I haven't done any formal Japanese study, and I don't need to read or write much kanji at all while teaching primary school, I'm very rusty!! It's a good challenge!