Prezi is a web-based presentation tool using a map layout and zooming to show contextual relationships which addresses some of the shortcomings of Microsoft PowerPoint.
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There are so many ways to use Prezi with your students !
1. Make mini-lectures for classes when you need to present a highly graphical concept
2. Present something like a concept map for understanding a process or how material relates together
3. Since it is web-based and students can go back and replay lessons or mini lessons any time they need to
4. There is an autoplay feature in Prezi. If you hold mouse/left click down over right screen arrow, it will show 2, 10 & 20 sec slide timings. Teachers can leave a mini lesson up on the projector while students are working on a project, just in case they need re-enforcement with topic
5. As a teaching tool to create presentations and/or activities
6. Students create their own Prezi to be presented to the class.
7. Insert audio files below information presented in Prezi
8. Embed Prezis on your website for quick tutorials on topics
9. Embed Prezis on your website with directions for an assignment or project.
10.Embed YouTube videos onto your Prezi for quick access to videos needed in your classroom or lecture
11. Convert your PowerPoint slides into pictures and then upload them into your prezi.
12. Build a Prezi as you go over a topic during a 6 weeks. So at the end of the topic, you have a study guide for students
13. Explore the class content with students by association of ideas rather than through a given path
14. Type in the vocabulary and then and then zoom into the definition (you can add an image for the vocab too)
15. Check out the prezi website to see if anyone has shared a prezi on the topic that you are teaching (it could already be done for you)
16. Not going to have internet for a presentation? Download a version of the Prezi to your desktop and use it
17. You can create a template for an activity and then have students go to your site and SAVE A COPY, then create their own content.
18. Use it for pre writing exercises for your students. This would include mind mapping, brainstorming, and then outlining information
19. Use it for story boarding (in Media, Language Arts, etc)
20. Students use it to take notes and then organize their notes Students can collaborate with each other on a presentation (up to 10 people can be working on the Prezi at one time)
21. Collaborate with a middle school or elementary class on a project using Prezi
3. Since it is web-based and students can go back and replay lessons or mini lessons any time they need to
4. There is an autoplay feature in Prezi. If you hold mouse/left click down over right screen arrow, it will show 2, 10 & 20 sec slide timings. Teachers can leave a mini lesson up on the projector while students are working on a project, just in case they need re-enforcement with topic
5. As a teaching tool to create presentations and/or activities
6. Students create their own Prezi to be presented to the class.
7. Insert audio files below information presented in Prezi
8. Embed Prezis on your website for quick tutorials on topics
9. Embed Prezis on your website with directions for an assignment or project.
10.Embed YouTube videos onto your Prezi for quick access to videos needed in your classroom or lecture
11. Convert your PowerPoint slides into pictures and then upload them into your prezi.
12. Build a Prezi as you go over a topic during a 6 weeks. So at the end of the topic, you have a study guide for students
13. Explore the class content with students by association of ideas rather than through a given path
14. Type in the vocabulary and then and then zoom into the definition (you can add an image for the vocab too)
15. Check out the prezi website to see if anyone has shared a prezi on the topic that you are teaching (it could already be done for you)
16. Not going to have internet for a presentation? Download a version of the Prezi to your desktop and use it
17. You can create a template for an activity and then have students go to your site and SAVE A COPY, then create their own content.
18. Use it for pre writing exercises for your students. This would include mind mapping, brainstorming, and then outlining information
19. Use it for story boarding (in Media, Language Arts, etc)
20. Students use it to take notes and then organize their notes Students can collaborate with each other on a presentation (up to 10 people can be working on the Prezi at one time)
21. Collaborate with a middle school or elementary class on a project using Prezi
Check out this website with more great ideas !
Also, the school website with more infomation and tutorial videos
