At work I encourage pupils to take 5 minutes to think about the task they have been asked to do, to come up with a plan of action for their research and task over all. I would have done well to have taken more time to explore the SlideShare site before launching into my review for Thing 17. While not wrong at the time, the area of most frustration to me - the lack of a notes section, was indeed there all the time, I just hadn’t noted it. The notes held in the notes section of PowerPoint Presentations do transfer with the file, which means I can continue to make use of the notes section in PPT when putting together my presentations which is a great relief. This doesn’t mean all faults are gone - interactive elements don’t transfer and there doesn’t appear to be a section to upload a text document supporting a PPT. Further website exploration may reveal these options yet. But it has become eminently more useful, though taking five minutes to think about whether I want to share a file and where at the start of the creation process, will allow me to decide how to continue with my presentation, depending on if I want to put it in SlideShare or use another file sharing website. Take five and reflect.
I've been using Symbaloo for a couple of years now and it's a great free web tool. Essentially it's a bookmarking tool for websites which you can curate into different webmixes - collections of websites. Each website is displayed as a tile, which you can re-name, alter the image and move about the webmix You then click on that tile to go to the website. I have various webmix pages including for collating web resources and videos for future projects, for CPD reading and webinars and also one for books I've reviewed for Reading Zone. It's a great being able to see what I've read and reviewed and bring up the review with just a click, and remind myself what a book was about before a book talk! As Symbaloo is a website you log into it from any device and manage your webmixes. Also, as someone who used to keep websites open in a tab on his iPad till I needed them, using Symbaloo has allowed me to tidy up by web browser and keep it much less cluttered! One other adv...
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