Tutorial Designers APP-- Prezi

In a traditional classroom in China, teacher normally use blackboard to write or use powerpoint to present their teachings. Students are often bored by this traditional way of learning; students lost interests and curiosity because instruction style is too stale, lack of creativity. students can't think creatively and critically. 

Prezi is a software that also incorporate images, sounds, videos, text, charts as Powerpoint. Compare with traditional presentation tool Powerpoint, Prezi is more fluid and visual, it has a non-linear navigation and learning curve. It can work both from computer or on the web. As we design the slides online, we could always save it by a click, and access it anywhere as long as there is internet.

When design slides online, we could click “new presentation” and a window popped up with “choose your template”, different template has different learning curves. We could choose a specific template, and many slide pages within this template would come out. We could input more information into the slides.

As we make the slides, if we want to change the feature of the slide, click “Customise” on top of the screen. Then on the right side of the screen, many theme backgrounds appear to be selected. Or we could also choose blank if we don't want it to look too fancy.

The benefit of Prezi is that it could look at the big picture and details by just a click; it can skip back and forth; it has a map-like layouts; it could present as brainstorming. Once it’s done, we could share it in many ways by clicking the share icon. It could be shared on Facebook, or present remotely to people. It could download as PDF file, or portable prezi to use when we don’t have internet access.

I think the good thing about Prezi for classrooms is its visual experience,  which is more dynamic and fun. Student could follow its learning curve and map layout more easily than the traditional linear navigation of Powerpoint. It’s also convenient for teachers to create teaching slides, they could access to it easily wherever they go. The danger of Prezi is that students might sometimes use too much transitions or fancy applications that lose track of the content itself. We could always prevent that by limit the pages or application functions.