Prezi. It's out there...no, it's in here...no, wait a minute, it's going all over the place.
Prezi is an online (Web-hosted) presentation software that adds creative dynamism to tired old PowerPoint slides and breathes life into new ideas for teachers. For a preview, you can visit
Prezi's website. You only need to know three things:
- Lessons are deliberately-designed links between concepts; Prezi makes these links visual.
- You can Prezi it up anywhere you have Web access, so lessons and information are readily accessible to a) traveling instructors, b) mobile education platforms, c) smart classrooms.
- Prezi zooms!!!
Prezi can make it easy for students to visualize links between concepts by zooming in to specific words, phrases, video introductions, and pictures to emphasize points. It integrates what many tech-savvy educators, professionals, and laypeople call Web 2.0, which is the social-media driven datasphere the Web has become, into lessons, seamlessly embedding YouTube videos and web-accessible images into a presentation with creative and unique font choices. It's shareable, so students who complete online learning just need to be given the address of the presentation, and can even be sent an archived version of a complete presentation (limited only by the size of the bit-rate caps your institute has placed on e-mail communications). I've only just begun to integrate Prezi presentations into my classroom-based education, so my experience with it is limited. However,
5 million users can't be wrong about its power and utility.
Centre for Teaching Excellence. Prezi. Retrieved Oct. 13, 2011 from http://cte.uwaterloo.ca/teaching_with_technology/netsavvy/prezi.html
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