TOTS "SlideShare" presentation

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SlideShare.net Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | July 14 th 2010 TOTS | Tools for Outreach & Teaching Series | UBC Library

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July 14th, 2010 presentation for TOTS

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SlideShare.netDean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | July 14th 2010

TOTS | Tools for Outreach & Teaching Series | UBC Library

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SLIDE 1 – Notes

• Today’s TOTS emphasis is on communication tools, and I have been asked to speak about SlideShare - a slide sharing web 2.0 tool I use in my teaching, blogging and managing my handouts and conference presentations

• http://tots.pbworks.com/Communication-Tools • But I want to take a slightly differently angle to the topic• I’m not going to show you how to use SlideShare as this is not a workshop, but I’d

like to discuss why I think tools like SlideShare are important in the building of media literacies in our students and faculty

• See http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/SlideShare_for_academic_librarians

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Here is SlideShare.net…

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | July 14th 2010

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SLIDE 2 – Notes

• This screen capture of my account in SlideShare was taken this morning, and you can see that on the bottom left I have loaded today’s TOTs presentation

• You can see my profile listed on the far left, with my name and location, Vancouver Canada, my work place and industry and my areas of interest

• I have twenty five presentations loaded into my own portal space called MySlideSpace and 25 handouts

• Once signed in, I can load additional powerpoints, pdf or word documents and each document will get its own unique URL – and every viewing will be counted on a counter so that I can see which ppts are popular and which are not

• SlideShare mobile works very well on the Apple iPad, iPhone and Android• Of course, the best part is - it's completely free and simple to use• On SlideShare mobile, you can View presentations and navigate through the

slides – and you can share links via your email, Facebook, Twitter accounts• There is virtually no limit to the size of the files which will be accepted, but I

looked it up and the current limit is 500 MGs• http://slideshare.zendesk.com/entries/164183-is-there-a-limit-on-the-file-size

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What is Slideshare?

• SlideShare is a free slide-sharing website

• A place to share presentations & documents

• A place to tag, comment & track ideas

• Build a network of academic contacts

• Import all kinds of library materials

• convert slides to flash (i.e. Google documents)

• embed on your website or blog

• Synchronize with MP3 files; download; remix

CREATE branded channels | PROMOTE academic libraries

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Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | July 14th 2010

SLIDE 3 – Notes

• What is SlideShare – in a bit more depth?• As many of you know, SlideShare is a slide-sharing service and a free hosting

platform for sharing conference presentations & documents• closest rivals are Scribd, SlideRocket and specific niche tools like TeacherTube• Each document has its own bibliographic record to add your tags (ie. metadata)

and to add abstracts to describe document contents• In addition, you can comment & track other kinds of documents and media and

follow your favourite writers and academics• I use SlideShare to build a network of contacts; follow academic librarians from

around the world especially when we share interests or work on similar projects• One of the cool things in SlideShare is that I can work collaboratively on a

document in Google documents, I can then convert the Google document in flash and then embed the file for presentation on my blog

• For powerpoints, I can also record an MP3 file and later synchronize it with the powerpoints for a presentation that can be listened to anywhere in the world

• SlideShare is a great way to promote the work of academic libraries; at the moment have about 65 presentations and handouts loaded onto the site with thousands of page views per presentation

• gets about 75 million page views per month according to recent statistics

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Sharing …

shapes the academic community

shapes us

EMPHASIZE the LITERACIES | NOT the TECHNOLOGIES!

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | July 14th 2010

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SLIDE 4 – Notes

• So why SlideShare and not one of the other tools that might be available for slide hosting?

• I want to emphasize it’s not SlideShare per se that is important but sharing • sharing is what shapes academic communities; in the academic library, we share

expertise, our time and teach our users how to locate resources• we share our enthusiasm for information and knowledge, and point to reliable

sources of information so that others can do their work• the issue is that SlideShare promotes accessibility and increases visibility in digital

spaces and on search engines like Google and Facebook• It’s important to emphasize sharing and NOT how to use tools • MEDIA LITERACIES are skills that we need to teach • a good example of how we might use social media to teach users how to manage

information and to help them build on their information literacy skills

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What Slideshare is not

• not an academic library; not even close

• not a replacement for library systems & storage

• not a replacement for in-house promotion of scholarship

• not a license to break copyright

• not a solution for audio & video uploads

• not a place to protect your ideas or privacy

a place to:collaborate, participate, facilitate, aggregate

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | July 14th 2010

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SLIDE 5 – Notes

• SlideShare is just a tool and is NOT a panacea • NOT a replacement for academic libraries; of course it’s not even close• NOT a replacement for computer storage for libraries or a robust library system

to manage our knowledge objects – it’s a SUPPLEMENT• NOT a replacement for in-house promotion of scholarship

o we rely on institutional repositories such as cIRcle & PubMed Central Canada

• NOT license to break copyrighto retain copyright on social media like SlideShare or endorse appropriate

Creative Commons license as users see fit • Slideshare is NOT a solution for audio & video uploads• NOT a place where you should expect to protect your ideas or privacy

o It is, in a very real sense, it’s a way to put yourself out there!

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Affordances• Sharing space

• A mobile academic tool

• Digital teaching space

• register, upload, embed ideas

• load knowledge objects

• follow scholars & academics

• rate, comment or add ‘favourites’

• use Twitter-style hashtag to find colleagues

• drive traffic to a blog | to a repository http://www.slideshare.net/mobile

• develop a librarian branded channel for teaching & learning

http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Module_I_-_Affordance

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Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | July 14th 2010

SLIDE 6 – Notes

• We’ve mentioned some of the constraints of SlideShare• Let’s look at the Affordances • First it’s a useful sharing space • A mobile academic tool • Digital teaching space • register, upload, embed ideas • load knowledge objects • follow scholars & academics• rate, comment or add ‘favourites’ • use Twitter-style hashtag to find colleagues • drive traffic to a blog | to a repository• develop a librarian branded channel for teaching & learning

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SlideShare:how do academic librarians assess/

or measure the value?

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | July 14th 2010

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SLIDE 7 – Notes

• how do academic librarians assess/ or measure the value? • Academic librarians assess our workshops and we have a number of formal

mechanisms and frameworks to evaluate their value• Not so with social media; formal methods are increasingly needed• We want to practice evidence-based librarianship but our ability to measure the

value of using tools like SlideShare is still in its infancy

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Benefits of sharing

Encourage collaboration between librarians & users in the cloud

Share information, ideas & knowledge

(Re)define libraries’ mission & strategic directions

Embed academic librarians where users form communities

Social media promotes engagement with our academic community

Dean Giustini, UBC librarian | [email protected] | July 14th 2010

In conclusion

• What are the benefits of SHARING through social

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technologies like SlideShare???• First social technologies encourage academic

librarians to participate in the web 2.0 revolution• And to meet our users in the cloud –• Slideshare is simply one place where we can

engage with academics and build our community• Sharing information, ideas & knowledge is central

to our work in the academic community• Slideshare and tools like it help us to (Re)define

libraries’ mission & strategic directions• And provide new spaces to embed academic

librarians digital where all kinds of users are forming communities and networks

• Social media promotes engagement with the academic community not only here at UBC but globally as well

http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/SlideShare_for_academic_librarians