Sloan-C is tapping into social networks for this year’s symposium, even with our conference proceedings. We encourage you to follow the instructions, but if you would like to avoid setting up an account on this website, please send your conference presentations to gail.sullivan [at] sloan-c [dot] org to be uploaded for you using Sloan-C’s main Slideshare account. Here is how to set your Slideshare account and submit your presentation slides:

1. Go to www.slideshare.net and set up a user account.
2. Submit your presentation using the upload features under the “My Slidespace” section of the website – formats accepted: PPT, PPS, POT, PDF, ODP. Be sure to save the description you’ve added, as well as the keywords you used, just in case there is an interruption in the service and you need to re-submit your presentation.
3. Go to the symposium event page @ http://www.slideshare.net/event/sloanc-symposium-emerging-technology-app...
4. In the right hand column, click on “Add to my events” and when asked if you would like to join the event, click “Yes”.
5. In the middle column, click on the link that reads “slideshow finder”
6. Click on the “My Slideshows” Box and Select the presentation you’ve uploaded. (Please Note: If you have uploaded a presentation and it doesn’t appear here, it has been taking up to 10 minutes for some presentations to appear. Give it some time and then come back to post your presentation. If you have waited for a full 10 minutes, there may have been an interruption in the upload process and you may need to re-upload. While you wait, you can browse the other presentations that are already posted!)
7. When you click on the presentation you want to add to the event, the application will prefill the “post a slideshow” entry box. At this point, you can add comments to accompany your posting to this event in the box that says “Make a new post!”.
8. Once you have entered any relevant comments, you just need to click the ‘post’ button below the comment box.
9. In addition to these steps, we recommend that you select “I’m attending” to indicate that you are a conference attendee (it appears on the right-hand side of the event page).

Why do we it do it this way? Why don’t we just post them on our own website? While we have had strong traffic and participation on the Symposium website, we feel that posting the conference proceedings in a more public location, such as Slideshare, will help to share the valuable content of this event with a much larger and diverse community than we could reach on the Symposium website. We hope that you will join us in this effort in helping to improve online education by submitting your presentation(s) to Slideshare.