How do I upload my PowerPoint presentation on Web?

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Permalink Reply by Alex on July 17, 2008 at 9:34pm

Hi,

I use a site called SlideShare, it works great.

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Permalink Reply by Jason de Nys on July 17, 2008 at 10:10pm

I second Slideshare. Scribd is also good, it also enables you to upload other file types.

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Permalink Reply by ddeubel on July 18, 2008 at 12:40am

I really don't like slideshare. For many reasons -- slow loading, clunky to embed, lots of spammers, audio incapable (despite what they say).

Try www.myplick.com Probably the best bet and you have the option to not have it downloadable...

Also, www.authorstream.com works well, I just wish they had audio upload.

David
http://eflclassroom.ning.com

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Permalink Reply by Cathy Nelson on July 18, 2008 at 10:14am

Good suggestions already, but have you thought of saving it as a pdf? Safe and sure bet way it won't be edited. Of course I despise PPT pdfs.

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Permalink Reply by Karen Fasimpaur on July 18, 2008 at 10:43am

I love Slideshare. It's easy to embed and people can view your show without having to download anything or have any software other than a web browser. When you upload, you have control over whether people can download the source file and edit or not. Also, there is a pretty cool community of people there, much like Classroom 2.0.

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Permalink Reply by Mrs. Archer on July 19, 2008 at 4:26am

Hi there. I know that this can be a dilemna, especially if you don't want others to download and alter your work. I have started using Voicethreads for this purpose. To do it, I follow these simple steps:
1. Create a Voicethread account. I think they only charge a few dollars to enroll and then never charge you again.
2. Save your powerpoint in a new way. Normally you would just save your Powerpoint as a presentation. Not for this. When you click "Save As" and the box to save comes up, click the arrow to the right of "Save as Type". Scroll through the choices until you get to JPEG File Interchange Format. Select this.
3. Your computer will ask your permission to save a picture of each page in a new folder. Agree to this.
4. Now, your powerpoint slides have been saved as images and you can upload them to Voicethread.
5. Go to Voicethread, sign in and select "Create". You can upload your images and you should be all set.
Benefits:
Pretty easy once you get the hang of it.
You can add your recorded voice, songs, sounds and videos.
A nice presentation screen.
Downsides:
There is a small one time fee.
You can't edit your slides in the same way as PowerPoint. It's possible but I tend to use this feature when I know it's all complete. I also keep a back-up version of my presentation in ppt format on my hard drive in case I want to change it and re-upload the pictures of the slides.
Example:
Here's a fairly cheesy one I created for a "test lesson": http://voicethread.com/share/119657/

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Permalink Reply by Heather Tordella on July 19, 2008 at 5:11am

I believe you can just scroll down when you save as and just save it as a power point show (.pps) instead of a ppt. Then when you open it, it just pops up to the start of your show and can not be altered. Then if you post a link to it, nothing can be changed...

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Permalink Reply by ddeubel on July 19, 2008 at 6:50am

.pps can be altered, please don't believe that.... .... :)

Nothing is sacred to those teachers who really "need" and want the best for their students.

Great tip about voicethread! But yes, you have to consider the limitations with voicethread (but so many benefits) also....

David
http://eflclassroom.ning.com

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Permalink Reply by Chris on July 19, 2008 at 7:53am

I open it in OpenOffice and save it as a .swf (Flash) file.

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Permalink Reply by Jason de Nys on July 19, 2008 at 8:23pm

As far as I know, Voicethread is still free for educators. Unless anything has changed recently.

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Permalink Reply by Sabrina Fu on September 2, 2008 at 11:22pm

Hi SunnyY,

Here are two ways of upload the PowerPoint to website.

1. Publish as HTML. By this way, it will lose the animations and transitions, sound and media files of the original PowerPoint presentations.

2. Convert PowerPoint to Flash and publish online. Now there are many PowerPoint to Flash converters which could convert powerpoint courses to flash with all of the animations, transitions, sound and meida files.

Here are some samples: http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash/samples.html

Hope it helps!
Sabrina

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Permalink Reply by SunnyY on September 3, 2008 at 7:06pm

Hi,

Thanks for all your good suggestion. It helps me a lot.

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