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Why I Like Prezi In my life, I have given a *lot* of presentations. In high school, they were presentations on group projects. In university, they were presentations on research projects. At Google, they're presentations on how to use our APIs. When I first started giving presentations, I used Powerpoint, like everyone else. But I kept thinking there must be a better way, and I experimented with other options - flash interfaces, interactive Javascript apps. Then I discovered Prezi, and it has become my presentation tool of choice. Prezi is an online tool for creating presentations - but it's not just a Powerpoint clone, like the Zoho or Google offering. When you first create a Prezi, you're greeted with a blank canvas and a small toolbox. You can write text, insert images, and draw arrows. You can draw frames (visible or hidden) around bits of content, and then you can define a path from one frame to the next frame. That path is your presentation. It's like being able to draw your thoughts on a whiteboard, and then instructing a camera where to go and what to zoom into. It's a simple idea, but I love it. Here's why: It forces me to "shape" my presentation. A slide deck is always linear in form, with no obvious structure of ideas inside of it. Each of my Prezis has a structure, and each structure is different. The structure is visual, but it supports a conceptual structure. One structure might be 3 main ideas, with rows of ideas for each one. Another might be 1 main idea, with a circular branching of subideas. Having a structure helps me to have more of a point to my presentations, and to realize the core ideas of them. It makes it easy to go from brainstorming stage to presentation stage, all in the same tool. I can write a bunch of thoughts, insert some images, and easily move them around, cluster them, re-order them, etc. I can figure out the structure of my presentation by looking at what I have laid out, and seeing how they fit together. Some people do this

Use this tool to make presentations "beyond the slide"

Fantastic tool

Präsentationssoftware

when creating prezi presentations, it's critical to have great looking screenshots that look good when you zoom. This tool allows you to turn the screen into a pdf which will look good when you zoom in with Prezi.

Prezi slideshow app - in-class use example & review

Prezi is a web-based application that allows you to make pretty stunning presentations. What makes Prezi somewhat unique is that there are no slides. You essentially have one big canvas on which to place your text, images, video, and more. However, that is just the start of it...

Free software. Infact is a tool that offers similar possibilities as Prezi even though I don't find "infact" it as intuitive to use.

Free software. Infact is a tool that offers similar possibilities as Prezi even though I don't find "infact" it as intuitive to use.

How to insert a sound file through a means of conversion to a swf or flv file via the www.zamzar.com site

Still sage on stage, but good resource for engagement...the comments section has a good listing of similar tools as well and observes the inclusion of the SAP Web 2.0 tool into Prezi as well!

"Technology is a tool. It's not a learning outcome. Too often do we get distracted by all the activities and action we can perform with an iPad or some other device. We can post to Edmodo! Make a Prezi! Post to Facebook! All exciting things, to be sure. But these are not actually learning outcomes .. But they're not really learning. They're using a device."

A powerful tool for teachers to create presentations and share them with colleagues

The new site is easier to navigate and to understand, as well as to use.

Part of The Educator's Personal Learning Network

Create presentations that are amazingly flexible. Free access for students and teachers when you register with your school's email and website.

very helpful for putting equations into PREZI