I spent a lot of time browsing SlideShare, mostly in the Education category. I had some trouble with it, though, because I didn't get sound on any of the presentations and I never figured out why. I couldn't find anything that I could specifically use in my teaching. That's probably more of a function of what I am teaching this year, though, because there were plenty of presentations that could be used for English/language arts, science, and social studies. I did see some presentations that I could steal ideas from. There was one about time travel that would be an interesting project for students in world history classes. There was another about ways to fail a class that was funny but it was geared to college students. I could modify that and do a funny presentation in my developing skills class when we set goals for the new trimester.
If I asked students to use this site, I would have to limit their searches. There are so many presentations that I think they would get bored sorting through them for one that interested them or was useful for an assignment. I didn't make it though all the education ones before I got bored.
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