Prezi is a website where you able to go beyond the normal PowerPoint presentation. You can access Prezi at www.prezi.com. Prezi can be seen as a visual story with dynamic and though provoking images. The words and images in Prezi work hand in hand to portray a revolutionary way in order to present an idea or ideas. Prezi uses a 3-dimensional canvas to resemble a visual story that you could be a part of. Watching a Prezi will be in your mind for a long time because it uses great metaphors to express that idea to its audience. Lastly, the Prezi zooming effects just proves that it is a far more superior tool for presenting ideas than Powerpoint.
In education, it could be a great tool to introduce a topic of unit. By doing this, you could capture the student’s interests more than using a simple PowerPoint presentation. Also, it could be an assignment where students use Prezi to present on a certain topic to the class. By understanding Prezi they will know what they like and what they don’t like within graphics. The student’s will also be more familiar with transitions from beginning to middle to end.
Prezi gives students who are shy or more kept to themselves to express themselves though pictures, videos and different transitions with the help of Prezi. One who is shy can be extremely expressive through the use of technological movement and transitions. Prezi gives the opportunity to unleash the student’s creativity and to showcase their imagination because there no limitations to it.
According to the Terms of Use provided by Prezi, only those who are 13 years of age or older are permitted to create an account on Prezi and use it.
