Prezi Software

Introduction on Prezi

Over the course of the last week, I have been trying my hand at new software that I could use in my own classroom.  Prezi.com offers an exciting presentation format that I thought had great potential.  During the week as I worked on my brief introductory Prezi above, I came to decide that while the software does have great potential, it is a little difficult to use.  Trying to get images and words to display without cutting each other off is hard.  If the software had a little more flexibility so the user could choose how and where their text is displayed upon "zoom-in", it would make this presentation package much more powerful.    Another downside to the program is that you are limited to themes which affect every part of the presentation.  I found it very difficult to change specific title fonts or font colors.

Even with all of that said, Prezi.com does change the way we can think about presentations and it gives their users a chance to play around with new ideas.  I would highly recommend taking a look at it, but I don't know if it is feasible to assume you could transfer all of your old PowerPoints to this format.