My partner and I are learning about Prezi. This program is useful since it can do anything that PowerPoint can but also zoom in and change its viewpoints. The drawbacks are that if used too much students can get bored and stop paying attention to the presentation. I have not had any personal experiences with Prezi but the tool seems like it would be the best way to get students interested in a new topic. The zoom and changing of directions in the examples made the presentations much more out of the ordinary and interesting so if used students would actually pay attention. If I have the opportunity I would defiantly use this in my classroom as it will hold students attention but some of the drawbacks are making students bored if used too much or making them dizzy depending on how often the zoom and viewpoint is changed.
SInce Prezi isn't necessarily designed for education, were you able to locate specific example from K12 classrooms? Is there anything we should know about how the tools is used in K12? More suitable for particular content areas? DId you try an example yourself? Was it easy? Challenging?
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