Thursday 11 April 2013

Prezi - an alternative way to create presentations




Are you a little tired of Powerpoint? Bored by one slide after the other? Prezi is an alternative way to create presentations.
Prezi allows you to create presentations online - and those presentations have some great features up their sleeve.

The following Prezi is in German - but maths teachers will get the hang of it anyhow.



This Prezi is used by my grade 9 maths course as overview, learning aid and compilation of important formulas.

Different from Powerpoint Prezi is not based on a succession of slides, but offers a kind of network - similar to a mind map for a certain topic.

You are able to stick with a mind map like template - but you are also able to choose different setups. 

Text, pictures, diagrams, structures, youtube clips, Powerpoints can be distributed on a wide area. The Prezi itself will just zoom in on those objects and will move cross this landscape.


Of course there is a vast collection of templates that will give you a basic structure. The whole software is easy to operate because of the intuitive controls. On top there is a very good tutorial helping you with the start.

Objekt can't just be placed, they can be linked with a so called path, that will bring them into order, if needed. This will grant a kind of guidance through the Prezi - but it can be ignored and own decisions can be made to see other objects first.

Prezi is ideal to show links between topics, it will help you to visualize the facts and offers you a very condensed yet clear structure.

Torsten Traub


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