Prezi

=**[|Prezi]**=


 * A site that allows the creation of zooming presentation.
 * Created by Adam Somlai-Fischer and Peter Halacsy.
 * Launched in April 2009 from Budapest
 * Investors: TED Conferences and Sunstone Capital
 * In Prezi you start off with a single blank slide. From this starting point you can add pictures,text, and video. These pictures and text can be dragged to different areas on the slide, and their size can be changed by dragging the corners out or in. Next you must select the display order of the objects. This is done by clicking the objects in the order that you want them to appear. To make the presentation more interesting you can add backgrounds, colors, different font styles, etc.
 * **Advantages:**
 * Fun for teachers and students
 * New, helpful and more interesting way of displaying information in a presentation type setting
 * Tool that students can use for presentations
 * Comments posted by other users can be helpful
 * **Disadvantages:**
 * More complicated and time consuming than a regular PowerPoint
 * The only way that students could come across inappropriate material is if there was something inappropriate written in the user comments.
 * Click [|here] to see an example Prezi
 * How can this tool be used?
 * Teachers: The use of this tool would keep students more interested and engaged, increasing the probability for the class to run smoothly and successfully.
 * Can make presentations to go with their lectures
 * Display video to go along with presentation and have everything in one place
 * Display pictures, graphs, charts, etc. and be able to zoom in on them to display with one click
 * Zoom in on paragraphs of text to make it easier for student viewing
 * Teachers can email the presentations to the students for at home viewing.
 * Students:
 * The teacher will assign the task of creating a presentation about the solar system to present to the class using a Prezi. Each student will be assigned a different planet to research and will be expected to discuss the features of that planet. They will also be required to discuss the distance from their planet to all other planets and the sun. Creativity will be a factor in the grading of the project. The students will use classroom computers to complete the activity.

Prepared by Nakeesha Robinson

Reviewed by Hannah Norman Reviewed by Christina Hale