In recent technology trainings, I have heard that PowerPoint is "so last year" and that Prezi is the "new rave." I wanted to find out for myself, so I signed up for a free Prezi account. I started to play around with it, and after a brief tutorial, I was on my way to creating my very first Prezi.
At first I was a little skeptical about Prezi. I was so used to PowerPoint where all the buttons were laid out for you at the top of the screen, you could use the templates and it was so easy, "even a caveman could do it." But after my exploration of Prezi, I have found that Prezi offers so much more. Here are just a few comparisons.
Palette- With PowerPoint, the possibilities seems limitless as you change the font, background and design. With Prezi, the templates are premade but seem to have much better graphics. You can even download a PowerPoint as a PDF and put it on Prezi.
Audio and Video- With Powerpoint you can add on many types of audio and video files. Prezi will only support flash and you can upload YouTube videos. If you use the YouTube videos, you must be connected to the Internet. If not you have to save the video as a flash file and embed it into Prezi.
Special Effect- PowerPoint comes with fonts that fly and slide in from the side and different effects for changing slides. Prezi does not have flying fonts. But the real excitement is that you are able to fly around the screen, zoom in and even see the entire presentation at one time.
Powerpoint is very systematic in that it goes from slide 1, to slide 2, to slide 3 and so on. If you are on slide 30 and want to go back to slide 3, it takes a while to back it up. With Prezi it is easy to navigate throughout slides, last to first, middle to end and back to the beginning. One downside is that you cannot print the Prezi slides as a handout. You can however, share the presentation with others and they can play the show independently.
Path- As I said earlier, PowerPoint slides go in a linear fashion. You do not have to set up the path that the viewer will take. In Prezi, this must happen.
So, as it seems that PowerPoint has many more positives than Prezi, I find that my students like Prezis better. They love how it flips from one slide to another, how the videos are embedded into it and the graphics. As a teacher, I love being able to go easily between slides. I guess you can say that I've converted.
Now it is your turn. Will you switch to Prezi?
At first I was a little skeptical about Prezi. I was so used to PowerPoint where all the buttons were laid out for you at the top of the screen, you could use the templates and it was so easy, "even a caveman could do it." But after my exploration of Prezi, I have found that Prezi offers so much more. Here are just a few comparisons.
Palette- With PowerPoint, the possibilities seems limitless as you change the font, background and design. With Prezi, the templates are premade but seem to have much better graphics. You can even download a PowerPoint as a PDF and put it on Prezi.
Audio and Video- With Powerpoint you can add on many types of audio and video files. Prezi will only support flash and you can upload YouTube videos. If you use the YouTube videos, you must be connected to the Internet. If not you have to save the video as a flash file and embed it into Prezi.
Special Effect- PowerPoint comes with fonts that fly and slide in from the side and different effects for changing slides. Prezi does not have flying fonts. But the real excitement is that you are able to fly around the screen, zoom in and even see the entire presentation at one time.
Powerpoint is very systematic in that it goes from slide 1, to slide 2, to slide 3 and so on. If you are on slide 30 and want to go back to slide 3, it takes a while to back it up. With Prezi it is easy to navigate throughout slides, last to first, middle to end and back to the beginning. One downside is that you cannot print the Prezi slides as a handout. You can however, share the presentation with others and they can play the show independently.
Path- As I said earlier, PowerPoint slides go in a linear fashion. You do not have to set up the path that the viewer will take. In Prezi, this must happen.
So, as it seems that PowerPoint has many more positives than Prezi, I find that my students like Prezis better. They love how it flips from one slide to another, how the videos are embedded into it and the graphics. As a teacher, I love being able to go easily between slides. I guess you can say that I've converted.
Now it is your turn. Will you switch to Prezi?
For more information:
http://imagemediapartners.blogspot.com/2010/03/prezi-versus-powerpoint.html http://classroom201x.wordpress.com/2010/07/18/prezi-vs-powerpoint/
http://prezi.com/index/
PreziVideoChannel. (2011). What is Prezi?. [Web Video]. Retreived from www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcCr8Cmroxw
PreziVideoChannel. (2011). What is Prezi?. [Web Video]. Retreived from www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcCr8Cmroxw
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