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There was a cool tweet today from @mcfarljo, suggesting that people who use Prezi in education in their classes, should connect with each other to share ideas and see how others are using the tool.
We are happy to initiate this conversation here and would like to extend to everybody working in the education field. Dear professors, students, workshop leaders and lecturers: time to get together and share your experiences, ideas and suggestions about Prezi in education.
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Prezi in the classroom - how do you use it?
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Great idea. I am teacher of 4-11 year olds in the UK. I have also blogged about Prezi at University of Warwick, UK (see http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaeldow...) as firmly believe Prezi has capability to reach new audiences in classrooms i.e. those students who need a strong inspiration for them to engage. MikeComment -
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In the history section of this website I have posted a link to Prezi, as I have used it in the classroom, and found it much more dynamic than Powerpoint, although when I want a rolling presentation that will just scroll through slides I still use Powerpoint as I have not found how to 'run' a prezi without my input.
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I'm a mathematics professor in a small liberal arts college in the midwest USA. I've been using Prezi to make mini-lectures for my calculus classes when I need to present a highly graphical concept (calculus is full of those) or if I want to present something like a concept map for understanding a process or how material relates together. Basically I can make up a concept map on paper or with mindmapping software -- or directly in Prezi -- and start drawing paths and/or lines and arrows to connect the ideas in a logical flow. It's the way I have been teaching for some time now, but none of the "linear" presentation tools (even Apple's Keynote, which I love) really implemented the concept map idea the way I wanted it to.
Students love it, especially since it is web-based and they can go back and replay my minilectures any time they need to.
I've also recently done a faculty development workshop on my campus with Prezi and it knocked their socks off. So much so that now they're going to have me do an hour-long workshop just on Prezi! It's catching on.-
Hi Dr. Talbert, I'm hoping to use prezi for academic and research presentations (e.g., structural equation modeling). Since you've been using it for Calculus, I was hoping you could point me to one of your online links so that I might get some ideas of how it can be used.
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Sean: I can't seem to reply directly to your comment, and I can't find any personal contact info for you. But here are some links:
http://prezi.com/zrbx3djx4ymp/
http://prezi.com/6r1o04n6gblp/
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Tony, There is an autoplay feature in Prezi. If you hold mouse/left click down over right screen arrow, it will show 2, 10 & 20 sec slide timings. I have found hyperlinks best used if you insert them as a pdf first. Happy to help.
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Robert, I have seen your first few Prezi's online a few weeks back. Now I cannot find one - perhaps Prezi should included author name in the showcase search and not just title and description. Mike
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1Thanks for the comments, great ideas and prezi posts as well! Very interesting sites and different approaches. We are also open to ideas, and experience reports, how Prezi can be used best in education. Big up and thanks for joining! -
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I'm another UK teacher - secondary ICT. I have a couple of pupils who practically refuse to use powerpoint any more, after introducing them to Prezi. I've used it to present A-level and GCSE theory and I'm trying out some stuff with younger pupils. -
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Great to hear about others who are using prezi. I am a high school business/phys. ed teacher in Saskatchewan, Canada. I primarily started off using prezi as a teaching tool to create presentations and/or activities. I am now having my students create their own prezi to be presented to the class. We are doing tutorials and learning the features before they create the finished product.- view 1 more comment
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Thats a great idea i work on a motor vehicle program in britain and will getting my students in the future to produce prezi rather than powerpoints
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Mcfarljo - your comment was about a year ago. Have you continued having students use Prezi in the classroom? If so, do you have additional observations on their experiences?
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We use it for our son to take news (or show & tell) in to class. He is in kindergarten and we are just playing around with it as a different means for him to present stuff. He is profoundly disabled in a mainstream class so technology is paramount. The first two attempts are under Kindergarten News and Wombat Scat on the prezi site. We hope that as we use more mainstream stuff the teachers will use it for everyone, to everyone's beneft. -
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Great, so it seems to me that Prezi is used successfully in many different school types! Thanks for the entries!
mcfarljo, thanks for this idea! It would be great to share the tutorial you have mentioned with others. Could you send it in?
Gina, really nice prezis! Please allow me to share your link here: http://prezi.com/it1-dnrxkiwk/ excellent prezi with sound!-
Thanks Zoli. I embedded the audio (from Final Cut Express) under the pics of the text and the path goes to the black audio box peeking out from under the pics. I worked out later I could have put the stills into the FCE audio to create the movie files and not had the two levels - will try that next time.
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I am using Prezi as an optional tool in a university course on Oral Presentation Skills in Pécs, Hungary. Many students have chosen it to create the illustrative elements of their final presentatitons. -
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I am trying to integrate this into my lessons - I too am a secondary ICT teacher. Jon Rogers, let's toch base!
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Sure - not quite sure how to send a direct message on here - if you are on twitter, I am jonrogersuk
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I use it for my university lectures - both oral and online presentations. I really like the possibility to include mind maps, concept maps or any other form of diagram. Also the multi-level approach is great. And PowerPoint files can be imported easily when converted to pdf, so I can use parts of my older presentations.
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Great idea to create this discussion. I like Prezi because it has more visual impact than PowerPoint but I didn't convert because using it was confusing and it is less interactive than my PowerPoint which has second party build-ins like clickers. I'll keep following the development though. -
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Hi all, I'm a law prof at McGill University in Montreal, and I have now been using prezi in class for a week. The impact has been immediate and striking. Lawyers typically rely on a lot of info and sources in class, but not all of which turns out to be useful. I use prezi as a big brainmap, and am in fact planning on having only one, ever expanding prezi for the whole term. The prezi allows me to explore the class content with students by association of ideas rather than through a given path. It is, in other words, nothing short of revolutionary. I will blog on this soon at www.thenomadicacademic.net
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1As an instructional technology professional development coordinator for the state of North Carolina, I find that far too many teachers use linear presentation tools to teach. They often lead to low levels of student participation, and more importantly, little learning. Prezi should be used as a tool to change the way information is presented as well as change the way students create new content. I have shared this resource with teachers across the state and had great success in making that change. Keep up the good work Prezi...can't wait to see an educator's pricing plan.
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Thanks Dan for your interest and for spreading Prezi in your state. Your post makes me wonder if you guys could give us an advice on what kind of efforts you believe would be necessary to spread this idea and the non linear approach in the education field.
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Provide a supported environment for educators to see relevant examples, be allowed to share created resources, and be given easy access to continued support beyond the initial exposure to this new and exciting tool. Most of our professional development is done in face to face environments that are either in the workplace or in isolated locations that provide an opportunity for personal and professional growth in a community of learners. This is supported with blended learning environments that extend to online courses for participants to access each other for the following school year. This way they can share frustrations and successes for all to see.
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most universities have a pedagogy department. they can be quite instrumental in getting other faculties to adopt new tools. I would aim for those. A dedicated space on prezi for educators would be nice. We won't use it in exactly the same ways as business types. In many ways we will use Prezi more because the focus is not just on getting a message accross, but on getting students to think. And for that, non-linearity is incredibly precious.
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I am an 8th grade Language Arts teacher in Georgia, and I am trying to use Prezi in my classes. I have used a few that I have created at home, but several teachers would like to collaborate on one at school. The network at school won't play the presentation. I can access the site fine, just not the actual presentations. It tells me there is an error, and to check support. I'm sure it is a firewall problem, but our IT doesn't know what to do. Can someone give me some ideas?
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There has been a lot of discussion about the non-linear aspect of prezi but I think its visual power is equally important. PowerPoint is very text based.
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Zoli, in reply to your post ten days ago about ideas, experience and suggestions.
I am a UK teacher of ages 5-11 years olds. There are two ways that I see - those who want ready made Prezi's and those who wish to create their own. Maybe a niche may be to simply make Prezi's about National Curriculum areas and then offer them to schools, That way, children receive the great Prezi show, but the teacher does not have to make it (we know there are 1,000s of powerpoints on the web for free). For example, there are 32 Prezi hits in Prezi/showscase and 8,400 powerpoints in a UK Google search. An emmerging market perhaps?
For those who wish to create a Prezi in a school, whether teacher or pupil, it reminds me of Textease where users can have the software as AT HOME, see http://www.textease.com/athome/ where schools purchase software and licence, then issue parents with a password for children to download from the web as a trial, then unlock using schools password. Now, Prezi is free, but schools will be very nervous of storing children's Prezis for all to see online for the obvious e-safety reasons. Therefore, schools only option to purchase Prezi Desktop?
In addition, for young learners, it can be very daunting to have a blank canvas. Maybe, the teacher or Prezi can produce some child friendly templates?
Lastly, my school in Coventry, UK will display Prezi.com / My & Learn, but Showcase will be blocked by firewall.
Maybe, some can comment on how best for young children to make Prezi's at home and show/edit them at school without saving them in the public showcase. Then again, I now see the new public/private checkbox - Wow how fast Prezi are moving! Mike-
From above - I meant 32 Prezis of subject of 'Rivers' (from my past lessons). Ooops
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I will be using Prezi for all my class presentations and the internet and applications when needed. The course is an introduction to social media and Prezi is perfect for it. I have been using it for a few months now.
In the end there will 6 lessons in prezi around the class. Love Prezi!
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Hi i use prezi in the classroom too and am beginning to set tasks for my kids on it
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Hi all again! Thanks for the great thoughts and ideas about using Prezi in the classroom! Now I have some news for you:
We are looking for the best Halloween prezi made by teachers, classes, students, or any individuals telling their Halloween story. Winner gets awarded, we have even created a nice Halloween style you can use for the project! Please see details here: http://blog.prezi.com/2009/10/21/look... -
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I am a school librarian in the UK and have now used two Prezis - one to present to colleagues at a conference and a second one that I used with 6th Formers in school. This one enabled me to talk about a pretty dry subject - Plagiarism, Referencing and Citation - with much more dynamic images on screen. The students were pretty impressed and wanted to make their own. Like a previous poster, I intend to use this one Prezi and expand it to show different aspects of Information Literacy and how these all interlink. It is so easy to change the path to include other sections of the Prezi - although this will mess up where people have embedded it on their websites! A "save as" function to save the Prezi at different stages would be good here!
http://prezi.com/es5v40wdb3ls/
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1Hi,
thanks for your feedback! There is a save as function in Prezi- Just go to your My page, click the thumbnail of any prezi and under the Manage tab, you will see the "save a copy" button. You can create different versions from your original prezi under different titles this way. You can then embed each. -
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Hey guys.
I can think of about a dozen ways to use prezi in the classroom or as a tool for your classroom.
1. Use it for pre writing exercises for your students. This would include mind mapping, brainstorming, and then outlining information
2. You can use this as a presentation tool obviously
3. You can use it to introduce new vocabulary and concepts in a non linear form.
4. you can have your students use it to complete assignments such as vocabulary and other assignments
5. you can use it for story boarding
6. you can use it in an ESL or early education setting (coupled with a smartboard) to have students match up concepts with the ideas, or definitions with the vocabulary
7. you can have students use it to take notes and then organize their notes
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Hi William,
thanks for the suggestions! I am sure this will inspire other teachers to try Prezi out in the classroom.
I also wanted to suggest a solution to create multiple student accounts: as a teacher you can sign up on http://gaggle.net and create free educational email addresses to students. Gaggle.net email addresses are acceptable for our EDU licensing system. You can use this service to create student accounts where the school does not give one to students too.-
Zoli.
You rock. I didn't know about gaggle.net, but now that I do, I will use it for my students, and my fellow faculty in the UAE.
I gave a PD on using prezi in the classroom this morning to 20 faculty. It was supposed to be 50 minutes long, and we ended up going for an hour and a half. They LOVED it.
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I am in a teacher training program at Concordia University in Montreal, QC, and I use Prezis for all of my presentation assignments. My favourite feature is the ability to collaborate with team members online, with live updating and no software conflicts. I use multiple platforms (Mac, PC, MSWord, OpenOffice, and so on) and Prezi is the only presentation software that consistently works on every machine, easily and quickly. All the other students I have introduced to it picked it up quickly and were very excited. I'm also fairly certain I've gotten better grades because my presentations were more engaging, lively, and clear because of the non-linear aspects.
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1Recently posted some ideas here on how the interface may work more smoothly with IWBs in the classroom : http://community.prezi.com/prezi/topi...
Prezi + IWBs ought to be a match made in heaven. I believe just a few tweaks may make this marriage even happier and more productive in classrooms :-) -
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i just introduced Prezi on my english speech; http://prezi.com/qhod5lnghdog/ict-in-...
everyone was so engaged during my discussion! ~they were all impressed! now, all my classmates are discovering creative ways of presenting their reports! :) -
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Many students struggle to see the forest for the trees when learning. They encounter so many new facts and ideas and perspectives, it's tough for them to see the big picture, that is, the relationship among all those components. I think that's where Prezi excels, helping students see those relationships visually.
I blogged about this idea, the use of visual tools to help students see the big picture, here: http://is.gd/g0lGd. -
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What prevents me from really working often with Prezi is that to make the really nice presentations, you have to use lots of third party software to create images and texts that look decent. When I try to use the basic tools provided in the Prezi editor, everything looks kinda stale and often downright ugly. But if I use external tools, it becomes too much of a cumbersome task.
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Hi, I'm seeing a lot about people using Prezi in secondary/college settings, but are people using it at the elementary level as well? I am a 4th grade teacher, and am thinking about introducing it to my students (to use to make group presentations). I'm looking for insights/suggestions on how to get them started. Thank you! -
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Hi! I am new to Prezi and love it! As part of a graduate course in Educational Technology, I have to give a Prezi lesson to HS History teachers. Any suggestions?
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1My 20th century history teacher introduced our class to prezi in the first few days of school and he loves to use it in class. He showed us a few presentations so we could see how it works and now instead of writing a whole bunch of pointless papers that we learn nothing from he makes us do prezis and then has us present our prezi to the rest of the class and it's actually pretty useful and more fun then writing papers and we learn more from it. Most of us who are in that class have introduced it to our other teachers as well and used it for projects in other classes to avoid doing boring powerpoints and papers. -
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I am a chemistry professor in a liberal arts college. I have been using prezi in my research (as a training tool for my undergraduate collaborators), my labs (I have teaching modules) and in place of my general chemistry lectures. I am looking forward to all future improvements & potential uses.
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I'll be presenting briefly on the many ways to use Prezi to enhance student learning. Thanks for the great ideas in this forum. I'm making a prezi with 6X6 ideas in 60 seconds and it will be public. If it's worthy enough, maybe Zoli can link to it here.
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