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Slides. Why do 60% of students find their lectures boring? One of the main contributors to student boredom is the use of PowerPoint. Photograph: Corbis I study boredom in a range of professions - from heavy goods vehicle drivers to teachers - and have found that one group for whom boredom appears to be a familiar bedfellow is the student. Our newly published study of student boredom (conducted with my co-researcher Andrew Robinson) suggests that almost 60% of students find at least half their lectures boring - with about 30% claiming to find most or all of their lectures boring.

Although a range of factors may contribute to these findings, they do prompt the question of what it is about the learning experience that might be deemed "boring". The traditional lecture is still one of the most common teaching methods, since it has the advantage of being able to reach many students in one economical time slot. One of the main contributors to student boredom is the use of PowerPoint. Does any of this really matter?

Welcome to Zoho Show - Online presentation tool. Free PowerPoint to Flash Converter | PPS, PPT to SWF | authorPOINT Lite. Share PowerPoint presentations without email attachments You can share your presentations online on the web through authorPOINT Lite, by uploading to authorSTREAM (see how), a free online presentation sharing platform, and to WiZiQ (see how), a free online education platform. authorPOINT Lite is Microsoft® Windows® Vista® compatible and Microsoft Office® 2007 compatible. You can also directly share your PowerPoint's on these servers, using aP Lite's PowerPoint plug-in, for which the conversion to flash outputs is done on these servers. authorPOINT Lite provides the option to share presentations either as "Public" or "Private".

The private option lets you share presentations securely with only registered users that you invite. So what problems does this solve? Sending and download issues: Anyone can share PowerPoint without attaching a presentation file to email. Also, there are numerous other benefits of having your presentations available online like accessibility and searchability. NXPowerLite Stand-Alone. Blog Archive » Introducing SlideShare: Power Point + YouTube. SlideShare is a new service launching this morning that lets users upload PowerPoint or Open Office presentationi files and share them online through a You Tube-like interface.

Power Point documents (or any office documents) stored on the web with a permanent URL are a valuable resource. No need to email the file to recipients, or carry a copy around on a USB drive. The presentation can easily be shared (and with permission controls, kept relatively secure). The potential uses of online Power Point documents are numerous – from making sales pitches, lectures and conference presentations much easier, to having a permanent record of these and other presentations available on the Internet for easy access and reference. Today, WebEx and its competitors fill some of the market demand for remote presentations, but they do not provide for online storage and archiving. Online Power Point/Presentation solutions are also tackling this problem, from a different direction.

Barking » PowerPoint is 2.0-fied with SlideShare. Very cool– after reading on TextCrunch about Introducing SlideShare: Power Point + YouTube I checked out the site to see its one of those betas. But you can ask to get in, adn I got an account before I had finished lunch. TextCrunch is right- this is YouTube for PowerPoint, even the interface is a dead ringer for the popular video sharing site. You upload those heavy, creaky, bullet laden PPTs (20 Mb limit), and Slideshare converts it to a Flash format, that can be embedded in a page (see below), direct URL linked (once the site goes public), tag shows, share them, and all the now run of the mill groovy social software stuff. My “slidespace” showing slide shows I have uploaded As you search, browse tags, and look at a Slideshare page, it is just the same function as YouTube: And from here, you can thumb through the slides, flip to full screen mode (which looks great).

It may be a fantastic tool to bring PowerPoint into a ____.0 phase.