Comments on: Record your presentations http://educationpr.org/2008/05/29/record-your-presentations/ Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:36:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: paul http://educationpr.org/2008/05/29/record-your-presentations/#comment-24957 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:55:38 +0000 http://pbaker.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-24957 How quickly the world changes. That’s news to me.
It’s really too bad, isn’t it?
One option would be to post your presentations on your own blog or web site, but then you don’t have the resources (tags, links, etc.) of the larger SlideShare community wrapped around it. While SlideShare does give viewers the option to flag content as inappropriate, that’s after-the-fact. And even when content has a warning attached to it, viewers can just go ahead and click through anyway. This deserves more thought.

]]> By: justread http://educationpr.org/2008/05/29/record-your-presentations/#comment-24956 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:01:38 +0000 http://pbaker.wordpress.com/?p=618#comment-24956 I too have been using Slideshare to upload slideshows and then embed them on my blog and wiki. I’m currently preparing a workshop to teach other teachers how to take PowerPoint to the next level. I had hoped to include Slideshare as part of the workshop. I’m torn now though. Yesterday, as I was researching, I clicked on the “Most Viewed” tab at Slideshare. Front and center was a slideshow, “Heavenly Bodies” of fully nude young–very young–girls. I sent an e-mail to Slideshare voiceing my alarm but haven’t gotten a reply. I don’t feel comfortable now introducing the tool in my workshop. I don’t know how–or if I could or shoule–defend it if somewhere were to view a nude slideshow. I know, as a parent, I wouldn’t want my child exposed to such a slideshow.

So–what to do. I know many useful Web 2.0 tools contain inappropriate content, and it is our job as educators to teach our students to be responsible, to censor inappropriate material. But…it’s still alarming–the in-your-face fully nude photos that some would label child pornography.

What are your thoughts? Have you dealt with this issue?

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