Prezi-tation

I just watched Ridley Scott's Robin Hood--quite possibly the muddiest movie in the history of cinema. Thoroughly uninspiring, except for one thing: those creepy, deer-poaching Children of the Corn!

Poaching.

Yes, I poach blogs. Deer tend to be messy and smelly, but blogs are a clean kill. Looking around at some of my classmates' blogs, I found one post by David Root someone who shall remain nameless, which talks about using Prezi.

Prezi! I checked out their website, and I was instantly intrigued. It has the potential to create presentations that are infinitely more interesting than the majority of Powerpoints I have seen in my time.

These presentations seem so much more interactive and visually interesting than a series of slides. I could see them being used as end-of-unit projects or presentations, such as a visual timeline of major historical events of the unit.

I feel that presentations and projects can be effective means of assessing what a student has learned throughout the course of a unit. As such, I propose to explore how to have students utilize Prezi to create presentations that will demonstrate their knowledge.

The example on the Prezi site shows how an entire presentation can be zoomed out to reveal that it was all in the mind of a cartoon pig. Imagine that! What kinds of interesting reveals could be created in a project about, say. . . the Salem Witch Trials?