Prezi & ethics

 Hi everyone! 

In this week's task we all have to choose a different ICT tool useful for a primary classroom, and review it using two different materials. 

Personally, I chose Prezi an online website in order to create amusing as well as original presentations. 

If you would like to check my review on Prezi, please, click here! 

All in all, I wholeheartedly believe that Prezi is an app which is up to scratch in order to achieve certain learning outcomes. As a matter of fact, the option to design multimedia presentations will engage students and encourage them to create beyond just dropping images and text into slide after slide. What is more, on the teacher's side, the ability to really zoom in to specific content can be a powerful visual reminder of a lesson's most important points. On the flip side, should you like to incorporate some audio, you will need to include it at individual steps on a Prezi path, and you can loop a musical track, but you'll need a workaround. Moreover, slow load times for larger images and videos make the online version a poor choice for wireless connections. 

In light of all the above, I strongly recommend Prezi as a teaching as well as learning tool, not only on account of its functionality and its ease of use; but also since  when it comes to actually engaging students in learning in a real classroom, it completely fulfills its job by taking external, unknown knowledge (i.e. the periodic table) and incorporating it into their day to day lives (for instance, why the shampoo makes bubbles when they wash their hair).

Gema 😸