Online Presentation tool- Prezi.com

I chose to use Prezi.com for my online presentation tool.  It is quite simple to use as you begin creating your presentation by brainstorming and placing your thoughts and ideas onto a grid. Once your ideas are down, you can add more text, images, frame sections, and edit the font by choosing colors and style. Once your information is placed on the grid, you are then able to design a path for your presentation to follow. This is simply done by clicking on “path,” and clicking your mouse on what you would like presented 1^st -2^nd-3^rd-4^th-5^th and so on.

When you press the arrows provided during the presentation,  it follows the order you selected when you created the path. This is really neat, because each section is emphasized by zooming in and before going to the next section with the click of the arrow presentation key.

I was really impressed with this tool. I believe this tool would be motivating to students, as it chunks material and allows you to focus on one section at a time. I like the idea of presenting different sections however having it still in one place rather than placing it on slides like a PowerPoint presentation. I believe this is helpful for students to see the big picture.  Students are very familiar with graphic organizers and this almost mimics one.

I think it is wonderful that the presentation could be viewed by going to a link or embedded into a blog rather than needing to go to a specific drive on a computer network like you would with a PowerPoint. With this, students can access these presentations from home to study or review content material. I also like that students could access this during flex grouping in the classroom and as an individual activity to reinforce and allow for repetition of weak skills.  

I look forward to continuing to practice and creating presentations using prezi.com.  It can definitely be used across subjects, grade levels, whole group  and individual instruction, and at school or even at home!

Go to http://prezi.com/learn/  to learn more about basic steps and guidelines, and to view some amazing prezis that have been created. This is feature is provided by the site authors.