Prezi for Students

Students can anticipate very well. They know when something will be interesting and what will not. If it is project presentation day and they can see that most students are going to present (and often read word-for-word) their slides there is an almost instant sigh of frustration. Teachers often sympathize and attempt to design projects so this won't happen. Sometimes it can't be avoided.

Prezi helps make presentations visually interesting and engaging to watch. With a single 'slide,' or canvas, presenters take audience members on a path through the topic or idea. With a zoomable canvas, the 'big picture' can be seen by everyone, and then zooming in on details reveals the intricacies.

Students that use Prezi have a blank canvas to attach text, images, video, and more. Instead of reading text, the attachments do most of talking. Students have the opportunity to present science projects in new and creative ways. They can design a large tree shaped presentation that represents photosynthesis. Zooming in reveals different stages in the photosynthesis cycle. To explain each step a student attaches images and helpful YouTube videos.

The student doesn't overwhelm the audience with extensive text, instead they allow the images to display still life examples and short videos to explain and visualize plant changes over time.

Once the presentation is over the student zooms back out to reveal the large tree shape so that everyone gets the important 'big picture' concept of the presentation. Also, Prezi has easy sharing options, including a URL link so that audience members can go back and watch the presentation and control the movement and zooming of the presentation.

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