Presentation M3

FRENCH GROUP 1 PRESENTAION

• FRENCH GROUP 1 PRESENTAION

Presentation M3
• Anthony Herring & Paul WESTON
Learning with technology 401/501 802
 Introduction
• There are several sites on the web that
provide a huge collection of materials for
learning with the internet, although very few
offer a community of professionals and
published articles to read and download and
also submit. This resource offers many
benefits for the learn community.
 Background
• Scribd is ‘Where the word comes to read’; this
is one of the bold face descriptions of the
scribd community. This network is one of the
largest social networks for publishing
education material as well as written music
and poetry.
 Company Stats

• >60 million readers every month

• >20 million embeds
• >1 billion pages converted to HTML5
• Tens of millions of documents published
• Millions of Read casts every month
 The Company

• Launched: March 2007

• Headquarters: San Francisco
• Employees: 40
• Go karts: 8
• Zip line: 1
 Functions and members

• Users login with email address or personal ID, this

membership is free, although downloads require
fees, these are offered in monthly subscript or
even yearly. The price is not quantifiable to the
resource. Users can share documents as well as
publish literature in all forms Music, poetry, articles
books or old text books, this resource is often used
to store older material that may become lost. With
scribd the document is kept safe on the web.
 Applications and Versatility
by Paul WESTON
• Because of the popularity of the mobile age, Scribd has
now released a non-flash format that can be used on iOS,
such as the iPhone and the iPad, or other handheld
devices that do not have access to Flash.
• Because Scribd uses what they call iPaper, it is easy to add
files from any of the major operating systems, be it Mac,
Windows, or Linux. Since Scribd is to versatile, one can
upload to the website from their home desktop, laptop,
certain mobile phones, and tablets. In the digital age,
Scribd is hoping to help in truly liberating the written
word.
 conclusion
• Scribd is hear for everyone that loves
literature
• Wed address: http://www.scribd.com/about
• http://www.scribd.com/contact
• http://www.scribd.com/scribd101