Saturday, February 18, 2012

First Prezi

I just put on the finishing touches on my first Prezi this morning.  I might have made one before in another college class but I know I didn't get this involved with it.  I like Prezi and I think my hesitation of using it again would be purely because of a lack of confidence using it.  The organization of the program was great and had some cool looking templates.  I wanted to use one of them but didn't feel they were appropriate for my presentation.  I look forward to using the timeline template in the future.  I typically start out a new chapter/unit with a timeline to give students a frame of reference.  One thing that I didn't like was that some of the YouTube files I had downloaded and would have embedded in a PowerPoint I was unable to do so because of the size of the file.  I had a lot of video clips on my Prezi because I find that it is an effective way to reinforce the text.  As a result my Prezi had 5 different YouTube clips, not sure if this is a good or bad thing.  Either way I have found Prezi very useful and definitely will be used to mix things up from the typical PowerPoint.  Here is the link if you want to check it out:  Chapter 13/14 Prezi


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