Source:
https://prezi.com/
What is it??
Prezi is a form of presenting information. It is a way to capture tour audiences attention and view the information in an interactive and engaging manner. It also creates a visual aid when presenting information to a group of people. When using a prezi you can add images videos, and even links. It a wonderful tool to create a presentation when working in a group.
Educational Uses:
Students could use this tool when working on a project together or even individually. Students could also work as a class using prezi to put information together. Teachers could use this tool when teaching students. It would be a great way to engage students in the lesson or topic being presented. It can be very individualized and creative. I would recommend the use of prezi by students in a middle school setting. This can be a hard site to navigate if the user isn’t already familiar with it.
Content Standards
This could be used as a tool to teacher anything or assign students a project where presenting the information is part of the requirement. Specifically this could be a good tool when creating autobiographies or even maybe a presentation over the presidents. Those a few examples of many in which students could use this tool. The site has lots of templates that have themes that could connected to so many standards and projects that students could potentially have.
Assessment
If students were using this for an assignment the assessment would be the presentation itself. When playing around with this site and assessing it as a tool for teachers to use I think its a great site and can be learned rather fast if you take the time to familiarize yourself with the tools and options that a prezi offers you.
Value:
Pros> Individualization, creativity, students can work individually or in groups, engaging for students to watch and learn from, tons of options to make presentation engaging and pre-created templates ready to use
Con> This site can be difficult to navigate if you don’t know how to use it.
Reference:
Information and photo taken from https://prezi.com/ on March 2, 2014.