Since I am a school social worker and do not have a classroom, I am uncertain how I would have my students use slide share presentations. However, I can see myself using this medium (depending on the student or the group with whom I am working) to provide information or a brief overview of a topic before dealing with the topic in a more in-depth level.
So many students these days tune out to lengthy, verbal information and the visual component provided by slides could be helpful. I think it might be "fun" for the students to find humurous slideshares to incorporate into a social emotional lesson as an icebreaker or just doing something "different" than they are used to. One drawback is the reading and comprehension skills that are needed by students if an audio component is not included in the slides.
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I'm impressed. 5:08 a.m. What in the world are you doing up at that time. My wife is up at that time but she has really unusual sleeping patterns. I didn't think anyone got up that early. But you must have been up earlier if that is when the post was made. Or maybe you blog is on PST. At any rate this is a really insightful blog. I really like reading how other educators feel about all the information that is 'out there' for kids. Much of it good and useful, some it not so good.
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