Prezi Presentations

After using PowerPoint presentations in my classes, I researched elsewhere to see if there were presentations I could use that offered more. I came across a site called Prezi.com. The word prezi is the Hungarian short form of presentation. This presentation is different to the ordinary slide-based presentations. Prezi also offers an educational license for students and educators. Instantly, the site shows you how to use functions to create a professional and eye-catching presentation that makes my PowerPoint slides look rather bland. The site helps you create your presentation easily, and this is the link to view it:http://bit.ly/1gdiEJG

The tool palette allows users to pan and zoom, rotate, and edit an object. The user has a blank canvas to work on and can navigate between text, videos and other presentation objects. I found some really good examples of Prezi Presentation in the following link: http://blog.crazyegg.com/2012/10/29/example-presentations-using-prezi/

However, there is a lack of colour and font option with this device. Also, there is a drawback that it is more time-consuming to create a presentation as opposed to the Microsoft PowerPoint software. This could be a case of practice makes perfect, with more time a really exciting and personal presentation could be created. Therefore, I would have to have more practice to feel confident to use this device to teach and introduce to students.

References:

https://ballaratcrtnetwork.wikispaces.com/Web+2.0+tools+and+researchers [Accessed 14 November 2014].

http://blog.crazyegg.com/2012/10/29/example-presentations-using-prezi/ [Accessed 14 November 2014].