Review of Prezi

The first is a prezi on the benefits of Prezi:
Sometimes it is showing, sometimes it's not - if you can't see it, you can find it here

 This is just an example showing how it can be used. Personally, I am not a big fan of Prezi, it does tend to make me feel nauseous with all the moving about. I am just as happy reading of a plain, boring piece of paper and I don't require a more stimulating method of presentation.


 There have been two important lessons taught on this course:

 1) You, with your knowledge and experience, are your greatest asset - more so than any technology, any presentation, any game etc. Just you and your brain is more valuable and more beneficial to students and their learning than all of the other gimmicks.

2) You, the teacher, are the presentation - not your presentation.

I think these are very valuable lessons and I like to remind myself of them when I am worrying about delivering a lesson without a PowerPoint to accompany it.

That is why I cannot see myself using Prezi in the future. I don't want it to be a distraction from me and what message I am trying to get across.

However, I do have an example of how Prezi can be used in the classroom. It is a Prezi that one of my Law lecturers created for answering legal problem questions.
(Click here to if you can't see this one either)


 My opinion of this is that, firstly, it is brilliant advice and tips and secondly, it helped me greatly. However, (because there's always a 'but') this was something he shared with us outside the classroom (on Twitter actually). Although PowerPoint is done to death and it is unoriginal and uninspiring etc I think to use something more interesting like Prezi would only serve as a bigger distraction.