Prezi

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Prezi is a new option for presentations. It replaces traditional PowerPoint slides with one single screen. On the screen, you lay everything out to create your overview and then choose pathway links between different words or objects. Prezi is also 100% done online, and can be used as a collaboration tool if more than one people are working on a presentation together.
The nice thing about Prezi is that you don't have to organize your information linearly, you just have to put the information down, and then create the pathway that works best for you. The next step is to place and rotate objects using the "zebra wheel", add text, then create your presentation pathway, zooming in and out to alternately see the big picture, then details within that picture.
The Prezi website has a showcase room, which is where you can look at some examples of Prezi's if you are struggling. Once you’ve created your Prezi, you simply move between ideas and concepts by clicking your mouse, just as you would with traditional PowerPoints. It can take some getting used to because it is so different from PowerPoint, but once you get the hang of it, Prezi is an extremely fun, creative, hands-on, and catchy way to present any information!
The Prezi website has tons of informational videos to watch to help you learn how to operate Prezi to the maximum potential.
Prezi would be excellent to use in any classroom because it is a new technology that many students will be intrigued by and want to learn. Prezi can also help students with projects, presentations, and just outlining thoughts.

These YouTube videos also help explain how to use Prezi.







Hopefully now that you have discovered what Prezi is, you will venture out and create a Prezi of your own, either for fun, practice, or your next presentation!