Monday, March 22, 2010

Put some Pizzaz into your Presentations with Prezi!

Have you heard of a website called Prezi? Prezi is a digital zooming story telling and presentation tool that helps you create outstanding visuals for your thoughts. The site allows teachers to create engaging and interactive presentations in which you can ZOOM into specific key points according to the discussion in class. Once you are finished presenting to students, you can give them the web link to review the presentation at home.

What's neat about Prezi is that all your information such as text, graphics, videos, etc., are placed on one big canvas (no additional slides are needed!). You move around from topic to topic setting up paths from one to the other. You can ZOOM out to see a whole concept, and ZOOM in to take a closer look at it's parts. It blows PowerPoint out of the water!!

Here's an example of a prezi that I created (click the link below). Not only was it fun to make, it was really easy to do. Once my prezi opens, use the on-screen arrow keys to navigate and the magifying glasses to zoom in and zoom out.


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