Assessment Task 1.4

Prezis

Prezis are a closely related cousin of PowerPoint or Keynote. They all make a presentations more visually stimulating but Prezi can be used in a non linear fashion as you can choose what path it will zoom in on.

Prezi was very easy to use. I signed up for a free account and was presented with the option to use many available templates or start a blank one. There are also tutorials available here.  Because it is a free account, your Prezi is available publicly for anyone to view/use. If you were to pay for a subscription, you could make it private. Also, with the subscription, Prezi has the capacity to become multi author, although it should be noted that they can also be deleted without the other contributors consent. Prezi is also customisable to a degree, the backgrounds are easily changed but there are no fonts to choose from which can make it boring to use after a while. I found though, that I was not able to do all the same things as in Keynote. I had made a Keynote presentation to use in a year 9 English class on my placement last year and decided to see if a Prezi could make it more interesting. I copy and pasted the information from Keynote but could not find the tools to make things animate. This was particularly useful when going through grammatical errors with the class, asking them where they thought the correct punctuation was and then visually showing them on the projector.

Thia is my Prezi below:

http://prezi.com/a7ahndb_qxne/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Substitution- Using Prezi instead of PowerPoint to give the visual learners in the classroom something to look at whilst you are checking for understanding.

Augmentation- In an English classroom, you can encourage the students to use Prezi to bring visually engaging elements to their oral presentations.

Modification- Students can work collaboratively in a mind map type setup (similar to wikispaces) on separate computers. In a Home Ec Classroom they could use Prezi to list as a group, what cooking utensils and ingredients they will need for a recipe.

Redefinition-Prezi allows for large presentations to be built upon collaboratively or individually. Large group projects are able to contributed to without the students having to constantly meet in person.

So I personally think PowerPoint/Keynote are still superior to Prezi but for the ease of use I think that Prezi would be very useful in year 7-9 as it is a fairly new piece of technology that they can add to their to their digital toolbox.