This document discusses the features of Prezi, a software tool for creating engaging presentations. It describes how Prezi allows users to create presentations with a nonlinear, zooming format along a customizable path. Presentations can include multimedia elements and be shared through links, embedding, or social media. Prezi is free for educational users and can be used by teachers, students, and administrators to create interactive presentations for classrooms or professional development. Research suggests tools like Prezi are important for engaging digital native students and preparing them for technology in their future studies and careers.
2. Site Features
Learning Prezi:
Scaffolded learning
presentations in prezi
format for every level of
user
Cheat sheets to print out
for quick references
A complete manual online
Allows for conversion of
PowerPoint slides to Prezi
format
Weekly Webinars
3. Site Features
Exploring Created
Prezis:
Explore tab allows
for searching of
created prezis
Can search and view
created prezis
without needing an
account
Can search by title or
by categories
4. Site Features
Creating A Prezi:
Start with a basic
template or from
scratch.
Edit the template
to your liking
including
multimedia, path
points, colors, ba
ckgrounds, etc.
5. Site Features
Creating a Prezi:
Ability to insert
files, graphic
organizers, YouTu
be
videos, PowerPoin
ts, images, and
shapes
6. Site Features Path points can be
clicked and dragged to
various points to
determine the prezi’s
Creating a Prezi: path.
Ability to specify
the path you
want your prezi
to take as it
“zooms” along
7. Site Features:
Creating a Prezi:
Presentation “zooms”
along created path
and returns to the
overall view of the
prezi at the end of the
presentation
Points along the path
may be revisited at
any point in the
presentation
8. Site Features
Sharing a Completed
Prezi:
Can be shared in a variety
of formats including:
A weblink to use on a site
to the prezi online Share Options
Embedding into a
website, blog, wiki, etc.
Email a link to the prezi
Share via a social network
, i.e. Facebook or Twitter
Can copy link or embed code
to share on websites
9. Cost
FREE!
With an educational
Subscriber options, but the plus features
institution email become free after verifying a student or
verifying teacher email.
teacher/student
status, additional
Prezi Plus features
are free as well.
(Normally $59/year)
These features free for teachers and students!
10. Audience
Teachers to students
for engaging classroom
lectures
Students to students
and teachers for
classroom projects
Administrators and
teachers to other
colleagues for
professional
development
11. Context
This tool can be used in any
level classroom from
elementary to post-
secondary for engaging
classroom presentations by
teachers and students alike.
It could also be used by
administrative
staff, teachers, and other
professionals in professional
development, faculty
meetings, or even online
meetings, as the software Prezis can be embedded in
wikis, blogs, Google Sites, emailed, etc. The
allows for sharing in a sharing possibilities are vast.
variety of mediums.
12. What Does the Research Say?
Our students have grown up as “digital natives.” We must
enrich our lessons with engaging technology, as well as
prepare them for the possibility of using technology daily in
their future education, employment, and daily lives.
“An integral component of teaching, however, is to prepare
the children of today for the world that awaits them
tomorrow, which in the early 21st century entails an
increasing reliance on technology, computers, and the
Internet as media to communicate, collaborate, and
compete in the global economy described by Friedman
(2005) in The World is Flat.”
Friedman, A., Bolick, C., Berson, M., & Porfeli, E. (2009). National educational technology standards and
technology beliefs and practices of social studies faculty: Results from a seven-year longitudinal study.
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 9(4). Retrieved from
http://www.citejournal.org/vol9/iss4/currentpractice/article1.cfm
13. More Information???
Software Evaluation Rubric on Prezi
Click HERE to view the rubric
How to Use Prezi Video
Click HERE to view the video.
Sample Prezi previewed in this slideshow
Click HERE to view the sample Prezi on Point of
View showcased in the slideshow.
Click HERE to view another Prezi on Theme.
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jessicac.bentley@haralson.k12.ga.us