Posts Tagged ‘education’

New wiki for the Prezi education community

Monday, March 29th, 2010

Since we have introduced Prezi’s EDU licenses, our educational user base is growing fast. Based on the community’s great feedback, we set up a place where teachers and students can share their work with others and pull nice prezis they may want to reuse in their classes. To enhance the experience of those working in education and using Prezi, we created an educational Prezi wiki, edu.prezi.com.

Using this page you can:

1. easily browse prezis by subject
2. get inspiration for how others are using Prezi within the education field
3. find prezis you can reuse if you don’t feel like making all your educational prezis from scratch

Here is how you can join the conversation on this forum:

1. Prezi’s edu wiki was set up and moderated by our US based colleague, Patrick. First thing to do is send a short email request to patrick.wenger_at_prezi.com.
2. Sign-in once the invitation is received
3. Search for and share prezis by subject
4. Now you can start to share your prezis with or find the link of a Prezi you might want to reuse.

Join and share your prezis and experience with others!

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A Prezi success story on Duarte blog

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Duarte is the planet’s most acclaimed presentation design company. They have clients like Apple, Google, Cisco or Adobe and worked with Al Gore on visualizing his Nobel Peace prize winner talk. Now Duarte have a post on their company blog about how Prezi provided the best solution for a great initiative to go visual. It’s Global Citizen Year, a movement for US high school seniors who engage in a transformative “bridge year” between high school and college. Successfully applied teens get the chance to learn a foreign language, have a global perspective and a clearer sense of themselves.

Duarte and Prezi came to the picture when GCY realized the need of a solution to visually explain their offer to young Americans. With the help of Duarte in clarifying their message and Prezi to visualize their thoughts they could solve their communication problems and created this awesome prezi:

The GCY Experience on Prezi

Read the full story on the Duarte blog about how GCY solved their problems with the lead of Nancy Duarte’s famous book slide:ology, and visualized their message with Prezi.

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How to create better presentations with Prezi in 3 steps

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

This screencast shows the method of creating a nice prezi about baking cheesecake. No slides, no bullet point lists or boring charts here. What you see instead are zooming images, relations being built up similar to your thinking when you decide to bake that cake for a family birthday party on a Sunday afternoon. Beyond looking good and being new on the market, Prezi helps you deliver your thoughts more effectively than any other presentation tools.

Here is a shortlist on why:

A. With Prezi you can see the big picture and the details easily, so you can make sure that the content of your presentation makes sense.

B. Prezi’s spatial layout help you to convey message better, since our brain is wired to think large spaces rather then slides.

C. As a presenter, you can avoid long boring monologues (death by bullet points), and encourage audience involvement by moving across the canvas.

    If you simply follow these 3 steps we’re convinced that you’ll have stronger presentation:

    1. Start creating your Prezi by just throwing in your main ideas
    2. Develop each idea by zooming into each topic (use word, images or video you find on the net, Google searches does it all)
    3. Edit: make important topics large, create relations and remove redundant stuff

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    Prezi: a story telling tool for Thai students

    Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

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    When the parents of Rob Newberry’s class of 5th graders come in for interviews, the kids take their moms and dads on a virtual tour of the work they have done in Prezi: presentations, videos, photos and reflectations appear on screen at Ramrudee International School in Bangkok, Thailand.

    One of the prezis at Rob’s workshop on 21th century learning, is about landslides. If you check the work of the two students Gene and Tif, you could easily tell that, since the presentation is not just explaining the natural phenomenon, it actually is a landslide. As you move forward, you will notice different elements of the presentation sliding, turning and rotating as the two 5th graders visualize the causes and effects of the often disastrous phenomenon.

    Rob Newberry’s classwork is a great example of using Prezi as it’s meant to be used. As we started to share thoughts in email, he added: students use Prezi as a visual communication and multimedia tool, their goal is to tell a story. In Ramrudee International School, they use Prezi for education and art projects as well. Even a bunch of art teachers are collaborating on a project with Prezi right now. Rob also plans to use Prezi with SmartBoards and other interactive multimedia, and we are just happy to hear that. His goal this year is to have each student have an account with offline access to the PreziDesktop then have them use their Prezi accounts as an online portfolio.

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    Prezi Education for Students

    Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

    Our office manager, Andrea sent us the link of the best Prezi education video we have ever seen. (Actually we work in the same room all day, yet we usually communicate via Skype) Even veteran Prezi developers agree that we couldn’ have created a better educational/introduction video for Prezi than the one seen on Palm Breeze CAFE, a weekly show in the School District of Palm Beach County US.  The educational show is hosted by Lee Keller and Kim Cavanaugh, it presents an informal look at technology in education, often as it applies to this school district. The show is aired online every Wednesday, locally many times each week, and features snippets for on demand viewing as well. Check out the second part of the video too!

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