The hottest presentation tool now is Prezi, a web-based tool, which allows the viewer to zoom in and out of sections. The visuals are more of a conceptual map of the content, where the viewer or speaker can zoom around any desired topic. Because it's online, you can easily embed YouTube videos.
Take a look at this Prezi demo advocating it as a tool for teaching.
To navigate, you can click on the gray arrows at the bottom to advance forward or backward, as pre-programmed. Alternatively, you can drag the display using your mouse. Or you can zoom in/out using the + or - tools on the right.
Thoughts on using Prezi as a teaching tool on Prezi
What are your experiences with this?
What are your experiences with this?
You can also view a TED video where Chris Anderson uses Prezi as his slides.
I actually gave my first Prezi presentation yesterday. 3 people came up to me afterwards wanting to know what software I used as they all agreed it made the talk so much more interesting. It was the 11th talk of the day, so if I could hold anyone's attention at that point, I think it was solely due to Prezi format.
ReplyDeleteI love Prezi! I first tested it out by making a personal slideshow with it and it was so much better than powerpoint -- easy to use and so much potential to present ideas in new and creative ways.
ReplyDeleteI will absolutely use it for future medical presentations.
Wow, I'm thrilled that Threehills and Christina have had success with Prezi. I'm guessing that there is a learning curve so as not to make the viewers nauseous from way too much screen movement! Will definitely have to join the Prezi fan club.
ReplyDeleteI've found Prezi easy to use but it can be quite distracting unless you are careful with how you set it up. Having said that a colleague wrote a great Prezi on Vertigo that was enhanced by the Prezi format.
ReplyDeleteI'm still sticking to Keynote for now. If you want to create a pdf handout then it is a much easier format to use. And one idea I stole from Michelle as to have my presentations in a public Dropbox folder and give out the address to that at the end for those who want to have a copy of the talk. It certainly helps save a few trees
@Andrew: Ah, I didn't even think about conversion issues to PDF, for instance. Glad the Dropbox trick helped. The tricky thing is that it is truly a shared folder. For instance, once someone started deleting and renaming some of my Paucis Verbis files, not knowing that it affected everyone else who shared the folder.
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