Prezi in information literacy instruction
posted by swatkin6. comments: 1
The presentation tool Prezi is one of those tools that I have wanted to explore in more depth for a while, as it seems like it might be useful for creating instructional presentations that have a little more zazz than the typical series of Powerpoint slides. Prezi is Flash-based and it lets you present information in dynamic ways, with a lot of zooming in and out, rotating, and more.
Recently, the makers of Prezi have made this product free for educational use, so anyone with a “dot-edu” e-mail address can use it at no cost. Here’s a relatively simple example of a Prezi presentation (created by Becky Canovan) that illustrates the process of narrowing a research topic down to a manageable scope for a short paper. Click the Play button (the forward arrow) at the bottom to start, and click the same arrow to advance the “slides.”
Another cool feature of Prezi is that you can easily copy and re-use existing presentations that others have made, so that you don’t have to start from a blank slate every time.
Now that Prezi is free for educational use, that’s one less reason for me not to give it a try. If anybody is using this for information literacy instruction, please share a link in the comments. I’d love to see what folks are doing with this.
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