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An intro to explaining Prezi, its features and tools, how it works, and how it differs from PowerPoint. Stannard suggests that Prezi is a good brainstorm tool that will let us collect thoughts, images, and video, and then join them in a path that organizes them.

This second video on using Prezi is mistitled, but this one does show the advanced features of Prezi, including Themes, frames, images, diagrams, and sharing/collaborating.

This is an advanced set of lessons by R. Stannard on how to manipulate the Prezi interface; begins with how to change your pathways, and how to create your own design starting with the blank screen template.

This is the introductory video tutorial by R. Stannard. Prezi is fairly complex, so the video is a good idea. As always, Stannard suggests ways to use the tool as he goes along.

The article suggests capturing your Prezi with a screen capture tool to create a video. A work-around, but could be useful. I find screen captures are usually pretty fuzzy, however.

A nice Prezi presentation with clickable visuals to each of the programs/tools mentioned in Bloom's "Digital Taxonomy." Indicates tools that could be used to integrate techology into daily teaching practice.

Prezi allows you to create stunning presentations online. There is a free version, or a better quality academic free version with more features. Excellent for teaching content, and it is more like a video than an ordinary old ppt.

An interesting Prezi presentation using a wide variety of social media. By Vince Everts.

This blog has 18 lessons using technology created by teachers. A media version of the Carnival of Lessons is illustrated on Prezi.

A nice way to make presentations with a little zing and zip. Here is a sample of a way to introduce oneself: http://prezi.com/v4jugdsdpc4t/about-carla/. I can imagine these being used by students to get to know their peers--and their teacher at the beginning of the year. There doesn't seem to be a sound feature, however.

Prezi is a flashy presentation program, but once you master the intricacies, creates very beautiful and visual compelling presentations. One advantage over the old PowerPoint is the ability to show how ideas relate to one another visually -- like visual Venn diagrams that swirl in and out, that grow as their significance increases. Worth a try. And available from the cloud, desktop, iPhone, and iPad.

Add a voiceover or video to your PPT presentation with PowerPoint, Google Docs or PDF (Keynote and Prezi). This useful little screencast app helps make your ppt more understandable. Or have students use it to make their own presentations. R. Stannard's training video shows how it works: http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/presentme/index.html

" Finally, a presentation tool that incorporates an intuitive user interface, super cool comic graphics, is 200% less frustrating than Prezi, and offers a zillion more options than the free version of GoAnimate. I know we just met, PowToon, but I think I am in love." This from a teacher, A. Gibson, who has used the tool. I hesitate to recommend one more presentation tool, but this looks interesting. "

"Cheating Death by PowerPoint teaches you to make great PowerPoint presentations by avoiding some common mistakes." This is a good show on how to really use PowerPoint creatively. But try Prezi, too. PowerPoint, as the presentation makes clear, seems to want you to fail. This slideshow shows how to overcome the inherent faults of the typical ppt theme and make your shows more interesting to students.

Emaze is a much less complex presentation program than Prezi, but has similar interesting effects. Teachers use a variety of presentation programs to give variety to their lectures. Free (sign up), and online, whith lots of examples. A nice example of a science Emaze about the human nervous system: http://app.emaze.com/40664/central-nervous-system#slidenum=1

It's suprisingly easy to search for images by type, size, color, and copyright-free. This training video (5 min) by R. Stannard shows you how to do it.

Another superb teacher-training video from R. Stannard on using Goggle Forms to create questionnaires, surveys, and quizzes.

" This video takes you through Googel Docs and Google Drive and shows you how you can use them with your students too. It also shows you some of the tricky things to remember and also how Google Docs and Google Drive link together." Google has changed a bit, but this video by R. Stannard should be very helpful. Shows how to convert docs from other formats and how to use the desktop G-Drive.