The first web 2.0 tool that I found this week is called SlideBoom. This site has the potential to be a great tool to use in the classroom if you just use a little creativity. While the website seems to be directed a business professionals, I do believe that this site can be used in the education world as well. The site allows you to upload PowerPoint presentations to the web and share them with people around the world. There are a few options you can follow when using this site. You can upload a PowerPoint with no registration. However, your ability to modify or personalize your upload is limited. You can still decide who can view, download and embed your document. But the biggest limitation is that the presentation will only be available on the site for a week once it is uploaded. To leave your presentation on the site permanently and be able to make alterations to it, you can register for a reasonable fee. This could be a great site for increasing parent involvement in the classroom. Students can make PowerPoint presentations and upload them to the website and which allows parents to see what their students are studying and the quality of their work. Another great way to use the site would be to do a class submission. If you have an assignment where all of your students are submitting PowerPoint’s, you can require that they all submit their presentation to the site. This would allow you to manage the format in which you are receiving all their work. This site is not something that is very involved or that your students are going to be jumping to use. But this site is a great tool for teachers to share and manage student’s work.
SlideBoom. (2009). Retrieved on October 17, 2009 at http://www.slideboom.com/presentations.
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