Technology Tool of choice.

In tech savvy age where there are many different and new ideas of how science can improve the teaching/learning environment, technology itself has become an amazing tool. As new tools are developed and older models are enhanced, one can not resist the thoughts of spaceships and glactacia travel which seem to be closer than expected. As we look at the tool chosen for this Blog, one can only imaging what are the next phases by which this journey of technology may take this generation next. For this presentation we will discuss the use of the Prezi presentation tool. 

Prezi is an online tool that can be used for presentations in both the business and school setting.  Prezi was founded by Peter Arvai, Péter Halácsy, and Adam Somlai-Fischer in 2009, the founders of Prezi states that they are happy to present a different kind of presentation software to users, as their mission is to reinvent how people share knowledge, tell stories, and inspire their audiences to act, Prezi swears to gives limitless zoomable canvas and the ability to show relationships between the big picture and fine details (prezi.com, n.d). Prezi have been found to be more engaging, persuasive, and effective by university researchers (prezi.com, 2019). 

Oregon State University (2019), states that instead of slides, Prezi makes use of one large canvas that allows you to pan and zoom to various parts of the canvas and emphasize the ideas presented there, it also supports the use of text, images, and videos and also provides a collection of templates to choose from to help new users get accustomed to the interface. Please view this simple video below on how you are able to put together a presentation using this app.

Prezi may be similar to other apps such as Scree-cast-o-matic that was previously used in this forum as an educational tool. One may suggest that Prezi may be an enhanced model to such app. Le’ts take a look at the advantages, and the disadvantages of Prezi according to Johnston (2014).

Advantages of using Prezi in the learning environment;

• Easy to use.
• A new fresh way of presenting information. 
• Sure to captivate your audience attention, with its eye-catching presentations.
• Increase creativity. 
• Allows the zooming in effect that suggest a live and enhanced method of emphasis. 
• Presentations can be easily shared.

Disadvantages;

• The audience may feel dizzy due to back and forth zooming.
• Editing tools for creating graphics or charts in Prezi, need to be create these using some other tool and then import them into your canvas as an image or video. 

In closing, just to demonstrate how easy this tool can be used, below I put together a simple video using Prezi for you the reader to enjoy and I hope it is something we can all relate to, However, due to audio issues I chose to utilize both screen cast o-matic recording and audio to present Prezi’s  presentation (only because the audio version of prezi was not allowed in the free trial). Do enjoy and give your timely feedback, Thank you colleagues. 

References;

Johnston, S. (2014). Prezi and PowerPoint – overview and major differences. Business Productivity 
Retrieved from https://www.businessproductivity.com/prezi-and-powerpoint-overview-and-major-differences/

Oregon State University (2019). Prezi Retrieved from https://is.oregonstate.edu/executive-summary/prezi

Prezi.com, (n.d). Visualizing greate things. Retrieved from https://prezi.com/about/

Prezi.com (2019) What makes Prezi so Unique Retrieved from https://prezi.com/product/