Twitter in the Classroom

First: a video about it’s use @ UT Dallas:

Second: A PPT titled “25 Interesting Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom”

Twenty Five Interesting Ways To Use Twitter in the Classroom

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Via ReadWriteWeb

SlideShare Ribbon for PowerPoint 2007

Anyone who reads this blog knows I'm a SlideShare user. Well, as of this morning, SlideShare just got 100x better as it is now fully integrateable with PowerPoint 2007. Just install the SlideShare Ribbon for PowerPoint (don't forget to install the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 first as instructed) and then you'll have a new SlideShare ribbon right in PowerPoint.

As you can see from the buttons much of what they do is self-explanatory. Simply put you can upload to, search, and download from SlideShare directly in PowerPoint. Here's a screenshot of what the search/preview/download interface looks like.

What I also found surprisingly impressive is the program's ability to give you detailed statistics about your account with just a click of the Presentation Stats button.

There's more I could say but instead I'll leave you with the intro video that the folks at SlideShare put together.

SlideShare Ribbon Demo from slideshare on Vimeo.

Thing #15: SlideShare

Here's another service that I've been using for a few years and upload most of the presentation I do.  (Including ones you won't find in the nebraskaccess account since I do speaking engagements outside of my official NLC duties.) To follow-up on the Twitter thing, here's the recent presentation that Christa and I did at Internet Librarian 2008.

What Are You Doing Now?: The Twitterfication of the Web

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Merlin Mann on How To Blog

How To Blog

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Find your voice, speak intelligently to the people you respect, and get better. This presentation covers everything I know about producing the kind of work that I enjoy and that I strive to make. NB: I'll eventually replace this upload with an annotated version, so apologies in advance if comments and what have you disappear later. SlideShare Link

The Gen-Y Guide to Web 2.0@Work

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Read the full article: Why Gen Y Is Going to Change the Web on ReadWriteWeb.

Fences

A quote from the book I'm currently reading inspired me to create this mini-presentation. Eventually I'm sure I'll work it into one of my proper presentations.

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If the LSW presentation @ CIL2008 had been done using PowerPoint

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Integrating RSS Into Your Web Site

And here's the final bit, the slides for my RSS preconference @ Internet Librarian 2007.

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Second Life, Second Thoughts

Here's my Second Life presentation from Internet Librarian 2007.

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(I'm having a little trouble uploading my other two presentations to SlideShare at this time. I'll get them up as soon as I can.)

Who Drives Change?

Dr. Melmer from the SD Department of Education spoke at SDLA2007. At the end of his talk he drew an analogy between how banks have changed and how libraries need to change. I took that and made it a smidge more visual. Here's the result:

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Reference 2.0

Here's today's SDAL2007 presentation.

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My SDLA2007 Keynote

In an effort to stop myself from making further changes to my presentation, here it is, my opening keynote presentation for the South Dakota Library Association 2007 conference to be presented this afternoon at 4pm CDT.

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Post Its as PowerPoint

I've got to try this sometime.

Second Life & Info Island presentation

This morning Rhonda and did a SirsiDynix Institute presentation on Second Life and Info Island to more than 300 attendees and have both received several post-presentation e-mails already so keep them coming. For those that missed it, there are several ways to get copies of the material.

• The audio and video recordings along with a PDF of the slides will be available via the SDI archive page in the next few days.
• The raw PPT file is now available on my presentations page.
• I've embedded a Web-based version (sans audio) of the PPT files below.

Thanks to everyone who made this a success. Please feel free to contact me if you have any additional questions.

Migrating to the new Blogger

For those that have old-school Blogger blogs and are looking for some information on the hows and whys of moving to the new version (you'll have to do it soon) here's a short PPT that provides the information you're looking for.

Tomorrow: The Social Web

Tomorrow I'm presenting a one-hour talk on "The Social Web" to the staff of the Iowa City Public Library for their in-service day. For those interested, here's my slides:

IL2006: What's Hot in Social Softwr

Stephen M. Cohen, Senior Librarian, Law Library Management, Inc.

• AJAX
• Beta Browster
• CoComment Cohen Family Recipies (.blogspot.com)
• Digg
• Econsultant (Web 2.0 directory)
• flickr
• gmail (chat)
• "Hype"
• Image Editors
• resizr.lord-lance.com
• pxn8.com
• snipshot.com
• Jenny Levine
• LibraryThing
• (Babes with Books)
• Moo Meebo Media Convert Mojeek Muppets Wiki
• Netvibes
• OCLC
• Pandora Purevideo (Video metasearch)
• RSS
• Stephens, Michael Snapper Slideshare
• Trackback? Type of the Day
• utube.com
• Wikis
• YouTube
• Zoho

Others

• Gmail Space Firefox Extension
• Twingine
• Flock
• Gliffy
• i-am-bored.com?
• qumana.com
• last.fm
• citeulike.org
• Xanga
• Picasa
• Odeo

SlideShare

Think YouTube for for PowerPoint shows. SlideShare allows you to upload your PPT file (up to 20MB), tag, share, and play. There's no way to make slideshows private but the concept is interesting, especially for those who want to share their slides and don't have server space to post them on. The system is currently in private beta (which also limits viewing slides to those with accounts) but I've got invites. Drop me an e-mail if you want access.