Prezi for flash based presentations
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Larry Cuffe
Jul 10, 2012, 6:24:07 PM7/10/12
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Prezi is an interesting alternative to PowerPoint, and makes it easier to put together a non-linear exposition of material. What do I mean by this?
It allows you to prepare a cloud of material for your class and, depending on the class’s progress give them a greater or lesser amount of it without looking as if you ran out of material, or looking as if you are skipping over slides.
You can embed pictures, links to youtube clips etc.in your presentation. Your presentation can be up on the web for students to view at their leisure for revision etc.
It is famous for stunning visual effects, zooming into the full stop of a sentence to reveal paragraphs of additional material, spinning your slides in from many directions etc. All this is set up in a very intuitive interface, the underlying model of which is that your presentation is all laid out on one large virtual display sheet on which you zoom from place to place looking at individual frames of the presentation. It is easy to set up multiple paths through the slides.
Down sides. It does not have the presentation features which allow you to build a stand alone presentation for self paced learning with built in quizzes that PowerPoint does, and it does not yet allow you to package your presentation with a narration. I have a web page with further information here: Web page about Prezi in Education.
It allows you to prepare a cloud of material for your class and, depending on the class’s progress give them a greater or lesser amount of it without looking as if you ran out of material, or looking as if you are skipping over slides.
You can embed pictures, links to youtube clips etc.in your presentation. Your presentation can be up on the web for students to view at their leisure for revision etc.
It is famous for stunning visual effects, zooming into the full stop of a sentence to reveal paragraphs of additional material, spinning your slides in from many directions etc. All this is set up in a very intuitive interface, the underlying model of which is that your presentation is all laid out on one large virtual display sheet on which you zoom from place to place looking at individual frames of the presentation. It is easy to set up multiple paths through the slides.
Down sides. It does not have the presentation features which allow you to build a stand alone presentation for self paced learning with built in quizzes that PowerPoint does, and it does not yet allow you to package your presentation with a narration. I have a web page with further information here: Web page about Prezi in Education.
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