Week 5 - Using Prezi for Teaching and Learning

This week I chose the group 3 technology of Prezi to explore. I found it to be the most suitable to use in my teaching context of secondary English. I found Prezi to be an excellent tool that gives a new take on the standard powerpoint presentation and brings brainstorming and presenting ideas and information to life. It is a tool that students can use within the classroom as well as taking it beyond the classroom to brainstorm their own ideas for assignments and further on in the workplace.

The site is easy to use with easy to find tabs and information. It is fast and simple to get started with new prezi’s and being able to save them to your computer lets you take them with you and access them quickly and easily.

 The different designs you can choose from allow the creator to personalise their work for their specific presentation needs.

The automatic saving feature is helpful incase the student forgets to save their work, and because it is an online tool, it can be accessed and changed anytime the student or teacher has access to a computer. It is also great that it can be embedded into a blog, as is the example I have made below:

http://prezi.com/szxx5moe3szp/untitled-prezi/?kw=view-szxx5moe3szp&rc=ref-36338975

I did not find any issues with using the site or creating my Prezi. Everything was quick, simple and easy, making it ideal for students. 

Examples of ways Prezi can be used in my teaching context are; 

• To brainstorm ideas with students,
• allow students to express themselves creatively in their work, 
• present new topics to students in a fun and interesting way, 
• allow students to make decisions following a though process, 
• present their progress on an assignment and the steps they took in completing it, 
• give presentations to the class and,
• add effect to oral presentations.