Hello everybody! I have checked out the next cool tool review and I must say I impress myself sometimes. I have chosen to use prezi this week. I have used this tool before but not like this and there is so much more to do with it that I didn't have time for. It's an interesting, fun way to present something without the bore of a traditional slide show presentation. Prezi is an interactive presenter that anyone can use given the right direction. You are able to insert pictures, text (as much or little as you need or want), URL's, etc. You are able to change the backgrounds, the coloring of text, the position of anything. Everything you do in this presentation tool is up to you how it is done. You start by picking a starting point in the presentation and then add the first thing you want to be it words, picture, or frame. After you pick a starting point you pick the next place to put another thing and then that would be slide number 2. Once you have more than one slide, you now have a "path" started, and then you keep going with slides until you have finished your presentation. Slides are limitless and you can change them around just like you do in a normal power point presentation. You are able to add music to make it more appealing and you add as much as you want in the presentation itself. The free edition is limited but you have a lot of space to do what you want and the paid version is way better, but if you have an edu email to log in with, you get more space for free.
To use this tool in the classroom, I would present anything to the students because it's more interactive than traditional power point as I said earlier. If I were trying to get across a story that my class wasn't understanding, I would have them make the slides with me and maybe add their own drawings or pictures so it was more personal to them. Students might have a hard time using this at a lower grade level but definitely could figure it out in mid to higher grades. For higher grades they are able to look up or research something they enjoy or something that is pointed out by the teacher, then turn the information into a moving slideshow (prezi). This would be a challenge to students because there is a lot that goes into it and you are using and clicking on a lot of buttons to get things were you want them, how you want them. I hope to allow someone knowledge of this fantastic tool as I think it's one of the best out there! Here is the link to my prezi I made.
http://prezi.com/-wfpxbzoxbmt/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
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