Honestly, marks out of ten…I give prezi
about a 8.0. It has its pits and mounds, but I can say that Prezi is mostly a
good thing. As far as presentation software goes, however, Prezi still has some
kinks to work out
First and foremost, I have the same issue
with this program that I do with Macs: less buttons does not mean more
ergonomic. I am not the smartest man in the world by a very long shot. But
having an education that cost $42,000 and RISING…if I can’t figure out how to
change the color of a circle in your program, there is something horribly wrong
with the educational system, or your program is not particularly intuitive. Or
both. Either way, this is definitely a frustration factor that is absent in
PowerPoint.
Aside from this, though, it is pretty good.
Aesthetically, it destroys PowerPoint. The templates are good, and highly
customizable. Not to mention the paths, which are just much more interesting as
transitions than the tradition slide format.
Final high point: It is on the internet,
and it is FREE. No need to purchase a program and no need to download a reader.
It just works, which is rare in the world of software these days. Also, you don’t
have to save your presentation to dropbox, or send it in an email. So many days
I have shown up to class, with hours worth of work still on a jump drive,
hidden and forgotten in a USB port behind my computer. That threat is gone.
In conclusion, prezi is pretty sweet. A
little bit of practice, and it is more than sweet.
Rich, great observations. Yes, I find Prezi simultaneously really useful...and oddly frustrating at times. But I've seen really nice presentations done on it (and I've increasingly seen them done in professional settings--though interestingly, at academic conferences, Power Points still seem to rule. Not sure why that is...) But re: your point about it being cloud-based, that is the direction so many technologies are moving now. A lot of the things you'll play with in here will be saved that way...which is definitely nice.
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