I've played with Prezi a little bit. If you're a fan of "mind maps," this is the tool for you.
The learning curve wasn't bad for me. It's the motion sickness that I found to be a problem. It's not bad on a small screen, but on the big screen... whew. If you'd like to see it in action, here's a bare-bones presentation I created for a technology workshop I did recently: http://prezi.com/abyc0ezmdrfd/. (You can make your presentations public or private; you can download them for offline use if you'd like.) Moving your mouse to the right will call up the zooming tools. The arrows at the bottom will step you through the presentation as I created it. But you can click on any of the gray areas to zoom to them; click on any of the words under those main headings to zoom to them. Some of those have active hyperlinks. If you skip to an area, the arrow keys will pick up the 'path' from there. Click the circle at the bottom to zoom all the way out. Click it again to zoom to where you came from. In Preze, you can make the font very tiny. If you look hard, you can find a very tiny gray box in the top right corner of the presentation. Clicking on it will zoom you to it. Prezis can be embedded in a webpage. This may make it an interesting supplement to lectures. I can see dropping my lecture outlines into this... or better yet, having my students map a chapter, and then post the best maps. Prezi makes it easy for groups to work on a single presentation. You can now print Prezis (as of last month). It prints one pdf page per 'step' on the path. I think this solution works fine as long as you have a pdf editor for deleting the pages you don't need. (For the sample presentation, it gave me 17 pages. Really, just page 1 was all I needed.) Sue -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College Psychology, Coordinator Des Moines, WA 206.878.3710 x3404 [email protected] Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology, Associate Director Teaching of Psychology Idea Exchange (ToPIX) APA Division 2: Society for the Teaching of Psychology APA's p...@cc Committee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=2249 or send a blank email to leave-2249-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
