October 29th

The Exciting World of Prezi's

Prezi's are the hip new way to capture an audience's attention as you relay your information on anything and everything.  There are so many different ways to create your Prezi that no two are ever exactly alike, which keeps things fun and entertaining to all.  With all the different kinds though I personally like ones with colors, an overall interesting picture, funny twists and turns, and overall easy and simple explanations.  Einstein did say that "if you can't explain it simply, you don't know it well enough."

From the list my three favorites are:

1. Mathametweets
First off I just love the overview design of this Prezi.  It was created by Maria Anderson as she explained her project of using twitter as a part of her math class's homework.  She used a drawing of students looking up at a tree with birds in it saying math quotes to one another.  Each little leaf is a slide of her presentation.  Her points were full of examples of tweets, such as how she taught her class to use twitter and some of their tweets as well.  She also used youtube videos to explain some of her points and concepts.  I loved how each slide was different and creative while swirling the audience around a beautifully drawn tree which connected all of the information in a way that would make sense to anyone who wanted to watch it.

2. Special Journeys
This Prezi is explaining the new concept of "Special Journeys" and how it will apply to the next few lessons in Miss Amie Bell's class.  I love how she uses this Prezi to explain the concept and as a reference for all of the lessons and activities that are being built off of it.  Not only does she connect her lessons and concepts with her words but she also shows those connects with arrows and visul connections between the different slides in her Prezi.  Students follow the arrows, that sometimes bring them back to a previous slide so that the students see all of the different connections and have a better overall understanding of the concept of Special Journeys.  Miss Bell even included her own personal example of a Special Journey to drive home exactly what it is she wants.  She also included questions throughout the Prezi for her students to stop and think about, this way they have to pay attention instead of just glazing over all of the information.  I think that was a good way to keep the students on task. I also love the different pictures and colors that were used in the Prezi, it made it more fun to look at and learn from.

3. The Magical Theory of Relativity
This Prezi was one of my favorites because it was fun and I was able to learn about the Theory of Relativity.  It was easy to understand everything that Petra Marja was explaining (which is saying something seeing as I never took physics to begin with).  Here he used creative designs and pictures to go along with his explanations to further the understanding of the topic.  Animation helps to keep the audience's attention and the brief step by step explanations breaks up the Theory in bite size and manageable pieces.  Everything flowed so well from one point to the next that you wanted to keep reading.


So when all is said and done, the creative, bite sized information, and well connected (both visually and within the lesson's plans) Prezi's were my favorite ones.

Til Next Time,
Nikki