Prezi for Teachers: 10 Most Useful Aspects

1.  Unlike Powerpoint, Prezi gives teachers the ability to zoom and focus in on important concepts during presentations.

2.  Teachers can also zoom out, offering students a basic, overall impression of the presentation and its key points.

3.  If used well, the zoom and navigate functions can make the presentation feel fluid and visually interesting.  (As long as teachers don't overdo it and make students sick).

4.  Often times, powerpoint presentations can feel cluttered.  Prezi presentations, on the other hand, can hold A LOT of information without the cluttered feeling.  The ability to zoom far into and out of the presentation makes this possible.

5.  Powerpoint presentations can be easily converted to Prezi and then improved upon in the methods described above.

6.  Prezi is new and hip.  You can impress students with your technical savvy and and awareness of new and interesting ways of presenting information.  Students may go to sleep when they see a teacher queuing up a powerpoint, but not so with a prezi.

7.  Prezi encourages learners to forge a 'less linear' path to discovery.  Power point moves from one slide to the next until the presentation is over.  Prezi makes it easier to make connections between points by stepping back, looking at the big picture, zooming in and then moving around more freely between concepts.

8.  It's simple and easy to embed videos and images into your prezi presentations.

9.  There are more opportunities for the teacher to be creative and have fun while creating and organizing prezis.  Students will recognize the playful aspects of prezi and remain engaged.

10.  Finally, because prezi is a "cloud based" program, students and teachers can use it collaboratively--building and learning together.  With prezi, students can become active participants in their own learning, rather than passive receivers of information.


Over the summer I created a powerpoint to prepare my Korean students for our annual Summer Camp Auction.  I created my first Prezi by converting that powerpoint, adding pictures, and using it to create a big picture AND short summary of our class auction.

The second Prezi I created outlines how I would like to arrange the desks in my future classroom.  It also includes the posters I would like to put on the walls, and examples of community building activities for the first three days of school.