Note: The following is a follow up to the Makerspace blog enry
My same class group worked together over the weekend to transform our start-up class project: Grandstories Makerspace Inventory into a Prezi slide presentation about our Equipment Investigation. Never having used the Prezi site before, it was quite an experience learning the basic features. Navigating and selecting the individual slides in a "not-so-friendly" drag and drop screen tested my patience at certain points in helping to create the presentation. I found myself being distracted in searching for an option that could turn off the animation feature while helping to type up our slides with no luck. Undergoing several slight dizzy spells due to the screen panning while zooming in and out into a slide I was trying to adjust, I was able to finally make sense of some of the tools and features. One could see other team member's actions hover about the screen as we each quietly collaborated in our own spaces miles away from each other with one goal: to include all project requirements in an informative and creative visual.
Prezi did not afford our team the same collaborative comments/feedback options as working in the Google documents did. Prezi is a very useful tool available for free which is great for many, especially students on a budget. From a scale of four stars being the highest, I would give the Microsoft Powerpoint presentation tool four stars and Prezi about two.
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