Prezi is a free online tool that allows users to create engaging digital presentations by placing content on a virtual canvas and zooming between points along a customizable path, providing more flexibility than traditional slideshows; it can be used by teachers, students, and professionals to create interactive lectures and presentations that can be shared via links, embedded in websites, or exported in various formats. Research suggests tools like Prezi are important for engaging digital native students and preparing them for technology-focused careers and daily life.

1. PREZI:
CREATING ENGAGING PRESENTATIONS
Jessica Bentley
MEDT 7462
Dr. Kelly Paynter

2. Site Features
 Learning Prezi:
 Scaffolded learning
presentations in prezi
format for every level of
user
 Cheat sheets to print out
for quick references
 A complete manual online
 Allows for conversion of
PowerPoint slides to Prezi
format
 Weekly Webinars

3. Site Features
 Exploring Created
Prezis:
 Explore tab allows
for searching of
created prezis
 Can search and view
created prezis
without needing an
account
 Can search by title or
by categories

4. Site Features
 Creating A Prezi:
 Start with a basic
template or from
scratch.
 Edit the template
to your liking
including
multimedia, path
points, colors,
backgrounds, etc.

5. Site Features
 Creating a Prezi:
 Ability to insert
files, graphic
organizers,
YouTube videos,
PowerPoints,
images, and
shapes

6. Site Features Path points can be
clicked and dragged to
various points to
determine the prezi’s
 Creating a Prezi: path.
 Ability to specify
the path you
want your prezi
to take as it
“zooms” along

7. Site Features:
 Creating a Prezi:
 Presentation “zooms”
along created path
and returns to the
overall view of the
prezi at the end of the
presentation
 Points along the path
may be revisited at
any point in the
presentation

8. Site Features
 Sharing a Completed
Prezi:
 Can be shared in a variety
of formats including:
 A weblink to use on a site
to the prezi online Share Options
 Embedding into a website,
blog, wiki, etc.
 Email a link to the prezi
 Share via a social network ,
i.e. Facebook or Twitter
Can copy link or embed code
to share on websites

9. Cost
 FREE!
 With an educational
Subscriber options, but the plus features
institution email become free after verifying a student or
verifying teacher email.
teacher/student
status, additional
Prezi Plus features
are free as well.
(Normally $59/year)
These features free for teachers and students!

10. Audience
 Teachers to students
for engaging classroom
lectures
 Students to students
and teachers for
classroom projects
 Administrators and
teachers to other
colleagues for
professional
development

11. Context
 This tool can be used in any
level classroom from
elementary to post-
secondary for engaging
classroom presentations by
teachers and students alike.
 It could also be used by
administrative staff,
teachers, and other
professionals in professional
development, faculty
meetings, or even online
meetings, as the software Prezis can be embedded in wikis, blogs,
Google Sites, emailed, etc. The sharing
allows for sharing in a possibilities are vast.
variety of mediums.

12. What Does the Research Say?
 Our students have grown up as “digital natives.” We must
enrich our lessons with engaging technology, as well as
prepare them for the possibility of using technology daily in
their future education, employment, and daily lives.
 “An integral component of teaching, however, is to prepare
the children of today for the world that awaits them
tomorrow, which in the early 21st century entails an
increasing reliance on technology, computers, and the
Internet as media to communicate, collaborate, and
compete in the global economy described by Friedman
(2005) in The World is Flat.”
Friedman, A., Bolick, C., Berson, M., & Porfeli, E. (2009). National educational technology standards and
technology beliefs and practices of social studies faculty: Results from a seven-year longitudinal study.
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 9(4). Retrieved from
http://www.citejournal.org/vol9/iss4/currentpractice/article1.cfm

13. More Information???
 Software Evaluation Rubric on Prezi
 Click HERE to view the rubric
 How to Use Prezi Video
 Click HERE to view the video.
 Sample Prezi previewed in this slideshow
 Click HERE to view the sample Prezi on Point of
View showcased in the slideshow.
 Click HERE to view another Prezi on Theme.
 Email Me!
 jessicac.bentley@haralson.k12.ga.us