Prezi - Your class presentations up to another level

Hi again, guys! Happy Holidays!

After feeling festive for a couple of days, it's time to get back to work. Today's post is something simple, something you may already know... But I just couldn't resist to talk about it! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... Prezi!

It's true that PowerPoint and Keynote (for Mac users) offer us a great number of choices and possibilities to make our presentations more fun. However, I guess every teacher can't help experimenting with other servers when it comes to language teaching. I personally have presentations everywhere. Actually, Prezi is one of my favourites. It reminds me of a path to follow: Simple but dynamic. 

As you may know this website (yes, it's a website, for those of you who don't know it), let's talk about Prezi by seeing its pros and cons:

• PROS: 
• It's free, everyone can sign up via Facebook.
• Prezi is partly designed for educational purposes.
• It's quick and easy to use (for those of you who struggle with the IT world)
• It gives you patterns on how to do your job.
• Slides are dynamic and well designed to comprise several items in it.
• It saves your work on the Prezi Cloud, so it won't get lost.
• There are Prezi offline versions for Windows and Mac. There are also services for smartphones and tabs. 
• CONS:
• Prezi presentations can only be seen online. 
• Prezi offers us a free but limited version. If you want to explore more possibilities, you'll have to go Premium. One of the ways to go Premium is by signing up with an educational account.
• It's true that Prezi offers us an educational package. However, no Hotmail/Gmail/Yahoo addresses are valid for educational purposes. Only .edu domains, college email accounts and official institutions accounts.
• Prezi is dynamic and easy to use, however, it doesn't offer us the animation experience from Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple Keynote. Transitions among slides are the only dynamic possibility Prezi gives us.
• Prezi's offline versions for PC and Mac are just a 30-day-free trials. If you want to have Prezi on your laptop, you'll have to pay. It's better then to use the website, even though we'll need the Internet to display our presentations.

Personally speaking, Prezi is a good tool for those of you who have to present a serious topic, such as a uni essay. Prezi really did save both my dissertations, as I didn't need any animations to explain it. Prezi can be good for your classrooms, but again, if you want to experiment with animations you'll have to switch into other slide servers. That's what I normally do with my students... and it's going well so far. If you want to comment your experiences with Prezi, feel free to do it on the comment section below! In the meantime... Enjoy teaching! :)