Blog 2: Week 11 Distance Education & Virtual Schooling

As the semester is coming to end in our Introduction to Educational Technology class, all of our previous task is now compiled into one assignment which is making Prezi. From digital story telling, to organizational tools, to social tools, an to web 2.0 technologies, will all be used to help create our last assignment. The purpose creating something like Prezi could be for educational purposes. This week we learned about different gaming aspect can be incorporated into the aspect of learning, which Prezi is some what of a good exmaple of this. I can truly understanding why using gaming aspect for learning since playing video games are fun and enjoyable, and people retain more information when they enjoy doing something.

I really do think Prezi is an amazing tool, but it seems like it fits bit in the field of education rather than in the area of business. Even though in Business there are different teaching seminars where prezi can be possibly used, I think it would work better for the younger minds rather than for grown adults. It is a cutting edge tool, does some very cool tricks, and seems to me that it will be better for a presentation in the class room.

I found an interesting video where it teaches you how to create a better presentation using prezi rather than your usual slide slow presentation. I do agree that prezi can be used to create a much better presentation the PowerPoint or others like in since it already has all the features they embody, but has its own uniqueness with the aspect of zooming in and out. I thinks it whats give it the edge and what makes it so amazing. Here is the video.