Thing 8 - Share your photos and presentations

Here is my slideshow that I have running during Open House at school.

Open House

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I am excited about these sharing tools. Slideshows in school are becoming essential, but students often have issues with compatibility and portability. Accessing shows online would be a boon to teachers who want to have students present with slideshows and are worried about the technology working.

The slideshow I uploaded is one I use at a kiosk station during open house and conferences to publicize the library, since not too many parents come to talk to the Media Specialist. Since the slide tranisitions are not available, it does not work as a running show from Slideshow.net so I will still have to use it as I have been from our school's server. This site did seem to upload slowly, but then it could be the nature of PowerPoint files that makes it slow.

I browsed quite a few efolios at efolio Minnesota. This is a neat idea, but I did have trouble with the browser timing out at least twice. Electronic portfolios have been touted for quite a few years, but it seemed a bit daunting to teach students how to link documents and get all the technology working. This tool lets you (or students) concentrate more on the content and choosing what to include, which is the aim of a portfolio. I would like to work on my own efolio this summer when I have more time.