Week 6 Evidence of Learning: No Wiki for Now . . .Trying Out Prezi Instead

Stay tuned for a link to the research article wiki that I'm working on with Kathy for March. For now, I'm learning about using Prezi, another free online tool that I learned when attending a VSB Web 2.0 workshop this week. Prezi is the "free online zooming presentation editor" and is growing in popularity; before attending the workshop, I'd had more than one colleague mention it to me and encourage me to use it.

I think the mistake that people make is thinking that Prezi is just a better version of Power Point. It isn't. It has a different purpose than Power Point, in my opinion, and should be used for presentations where seeing the big picture is important. If slides just need to be shown one by one, then I'll be honest, I liked using Power Point better. But Prezi allows you to zoom in and out, to draw your presentation in different shapes, and it looks prettier in the end. So for example, if your presentation was based on a timeline, Prezi would be perfect. People could zoom in to learn about an event, and then zoom out to see how it fits into the timeline.

I've started the basics of a presentation that I plan on using this summer when students start registering for English 12 online. Enjoy!

title on Prezi