Check out Prezi!

Recently, I was exposed to the online program of Prezi, which is a program that makes presentations more fluid and exciting than the generic Microsoft Word PowerPoint program. Not to knock PowerPoint, but Prezi is neat program that is free and can add some energy to a simple presentation you are sharing with an audience, whether it is peers or students.

There are three different ways to join Prezi, one being a free license, which is how I joined the program. When you join free, your presentations are posted automatically on the Prezi site (which doesn't bother me personally, but something to think about if you are willing to pay some money). Here is an example that I created in a few minutes, just to show you the possibilities!

As a teacher, I am excited to use this program because it is easy to choose a template depending on the type of information we are learning about and discussing in class; Prezi provides different types of flow charts and backgrounds that apply to different genres and ways of note-taking. Furthermore, when you click on the text, it is easy to change font, size, angle, color, and words. I can easily add more boxes in a presentation, similar to Microsoft's PowerPoint. There are many similarities between the two, but I have found that Prezi offers a different type of fluidity so that students feel like they are interacting more with the information!

Students, feel free to use this program on our upcoming English project! Or even a proposal to your parents about getting a dog or raise in allowance? Parents...do I hear chore chart presentation? And fellow teachers, the possibilities are endless! I recommend this program, and if you need help with using the website, they offer a tutorial on the homepage! Good luck!