Prezi: Potential for Powerful Presentations
Prezi…
A little background… About a month ago, I started using Twitter. Twitter is a fabulous on-line tool that allows me to communicate and stay connected with like-minded people. I’m still a newbie and am still learning the lingo. Recently, I’ve been seeing links with Prezi in the tweet. Now, not wanted to sound stupid, I did what any inquisitive person would do…
I googled it.
After clicking and reading several links, I discovered Prezi was a new on-line zooming presentation tool. The tool looked intriguing, so I applied for a membership. Several days later, I received confirmation from the company to have access to Prezi.
I decided to take my last blog post, and transform the same information into a Prezi Presentation. (If you haven’t clicked the link on Prezi Presentation, do it now to check it out!)
Prezi was fairly user friendly, with what seemed like gears in the upper-left hand corner to help you navigate. I’m pretty sure the teachers around me enjoyed hearing me laughing at all my mistakes as I learned. I’m a button-pusher–I like to think of it as “constructivist learning”. There were moments when I added so much white background, nothing else could be seen. Then there were a pile of objects I couldn’t figure out how to delete off to the side.
But, in an hour, I was able to create a potentially powerful presentation. iLearn Technology has some excellent suggestions for teachers wanting students to use Prezi.
Try the demo yourself at prezi.com and tell me if you agree.
January 31st, 2009 at 1:06 am
Yeah, it’s a lot of fun, I’m enjoying tinkering with it!
And pretty intuitive as well.
February 3rd, 2009 at 12:37 am
I completely agree on the tool being easy. My next goal is to work on some of the graphical elements. I tried out Prezi just to learn the features. My next goal will be using the features Prezi has to help tell the story…