Educational Technology

October 6, 2010

PREZI: A Different Way to Present

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:36 am

by Kevin YEE and Jace HARGIS, TOJDE

Taking a completely different approach to the entire concept of software for presentations, Prezi stands alone as a unique and wholly viable competitor to PowerPoint. With a “prezi”, users display words, images, and videos without using “slides” at all. Instead, individual pieces of the presentation are digitally deposited on a single oversized canvas, and the creator has the option to zoom in (or out) surprisingly far, so that elements of the presentation remain hidden until it becomes time for them to come into focus on screen. After all elements are in place, the creator establishes a click-path, so that when the presentation is finally run for an audience, the “camera” whisks around the canvas, panning as needed, zooming in and out, and even swirling around in spirals when moving from one waypoint to the next. The transitions are smooth, mesmerizing, and infinitely more interesting than the transitions and animations available in PowerPoint and similar products.

http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/tojde40/notes_for_editor/notes_for_editor_1.htm

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