When reflecting back on this course, one of the most exciting things that I learned and can be useful for me in the future is Prezi. I remember students using this in other classes and I was skeptical at first because it seemed extremely complicated. Even when our group put together our Prezi, it was a difficult task at first to figure out how to add text or manipulate a graph. After editing our project several times, using it became easier and easier. Now, it comes naturally and seems strange that I used to think it was so complicated.
Prezi is almost like giving a poster presentation along with a power point presentation. It allows a person to take a single word and make it move. In class, we talked about how text moves. Several examples were given were the author made the text move like the object they were talking about. One story was about an elevator
and the author positioned the words to move up and down like an elevator. Prezi allows the author to make the words move and come to life. For example, in our project we talked about how the color scheme can be loud in certain social media websites. We took the word “loud” and made it bigger and gave it a bold color and zoomed in quickly in and out to portray the meaning of the word.
Another great thing about Prezi is that an individual can work on different elements of a project and then link it all together. This is an amazing feature because when a person initially starts a project, his or her ideas can be scattered and is probably still in the brainstorming stage. Prezi allows the person to put down all their random thoughts and then link ideas together, which will then help, create the main thesis.
Growing up I had to do several poster projects, and if I messed up or envisioned an idea, I could not really just play around with ideas without starting over. In Prezi, I can change the color scheme, play with different fonts, link parts together and then unlink them if it did not worked. It is a great tool when presenting to an audience because it keeps their attention and it enriches your presentation and allows the audience to come to a clear understanding of the topic than say a regular poster board.
