A while back, a colleague and I did a workshop on wikis. Although we’ve sampled other wiki tools, we like PBWiki for educational purposes because it’s easy to use and offers quite a solid variety of functions.
Since we wanted to practice what we were preaching, we wanted to display our presentation in the browser-based wiki space, rather than through the traditional, offline route of PowerPoint. This would also answer a question that we anticipated some of those who came to the workshop would likely have (i.e., How do I or my students embed presentation files?
). After all, if the student is required to download it to their local drive, then this kind of works against the philosophy of working within the wiki space since this can already be done very easily with any standard LMS.
PBWiki makes embedding pretty easy to do via either one of two third-party applications (Slideshare or Google Docs/Presentation). Essentially, all you need to do is upload your presentation file (e.g., PPT), publish it, and copy the embed code into your PBWiki page.
Here are a couple of places where you can find more detailed instructions: Slideshare and Google Docs/Presentation.
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