Prezi

Presentations just got much more exciting! Every presentation I have ever done until now has been on boring power point. In class, one of my peers suggested to her group mates that they do a Prezi for an assignment, I overheard the conversation but just ignored it. A week or so later, my professor held a 'show and tell' in class and explained that it would be on Prezi's. A Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software. Prezi's are a mix between using a whiteboard (or SMART board) and slides. A Prezi's canvas is created so that it can zoom in on different slides within each presentation. There are so many different layouts on the Prezi site, and a variety of journeys and paths to use for the creation of the best Prezi possible. The first step in creating my Prezi was to choose a layout and journey. Once I decided to go with frames over circles, I was all set and ready to go. I'm not going to lie and pretend I did the whole thing from scratch on a Prezi, rather I created my entire presentation in power point first and transferred it into a Prezi through the 'power point' option. This was actually pretty easy, but very time consuming. Really, it was just tedious work and effort that I wasn't expecting, because I thought it would transfer in perfectly. How naive. I really do know better. After getting all of my information and pictures into the Prezi journey and playing around for many hours trying to perfect it, I completed my first ever online presentation.  The topic for my group presentation was the Benefits of Early Childhood Education. This is a topic that I personally am extremely interested in, and I am so glad I had the opportunity to create my first Prezi on something I feel strongly about. I have attached the link at the bottom of the page for you, my viewers to look at. I believe that with practice and experience, I will make many more Prezi's and that they will improve with time. Hopefully, they will also be less time consuming, because I now know what I am doing.

Below is the link to my first Prezi. 
http://prezi.com/u0zs9fqqrrm8/benefits-of-early-childhood-education/