Prezi.com is a great tool for creating exciting and impressive presentations. I have traditionally used PowerPoint to create my presentations for my students during note taking and for parents during parent teacher conferences. Since I have discovered Prezi.com, I am hooked on creating something more.
There are three membership options. The one I chose was free of charge. For what I need the site for, the free version is all that I need.
The prezi web 2.0 tool allows you to create moving presentations that will impress anyone. You are able to choose from several background designs and templates. Almost similar to PowerPoint, but the animation is cleverer.
There is a tutorial available, which helps you, construct your first presentation, the tutorial is strongly recommended. There are tutorials for learning the prezi interface, a tutorial which gives ideas for creating a good prezi, and there is even a full prezi manual available for those who prefer to read through and learn how to use the site. There are also several prezi examples to help give you ideas towards creating your own presentation.
Once you learn the basics through the tutorials, you are then prompted on to the creation section. Creating the prezi is half of the fun. It can become time consuming and I suggest that you have all of your information at hand to help creating your presentation. There is even a GREAT web 2.0 presentation as an example: Web 2.0 in the Classroom.
Once you have completed your presentation, you have several more options. You make keep your presentation private or you can make your presentation public. I believe there are more options that these two but with paid memberships. There is another good presentation listed under the examples: How can we measure Teaching. I was at first a little intimidated by this web 2.0 tool but now I want to use it for every thing. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Prezi.com. (2009). Prezi-the zooming presentation editor. Retrieved on November 3, 2009 from http://prezi.com/
Toni,
ReplyDeleteAfter reading your comments on Prezi, I went to the site and looked around and before I know it, I was signing up and playing...I mean researching this Web 2.0 tool. It is great fun and I plan to use it next week in class to review some materials. I might even teach my students to use it in an upcoming project; this would give them an alternative to Powerpoint. Thanks!