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Let’s be honest: PowerPoint is passé. Prezi is the present. Tools like Prezi are making the old paradigm of PowerPoint increasingly obsolete. Prezi’s ability to integrate any form of media (YouTube videos, graphics, etc.) into a web-based and seamless presentation shows just how retro PowerPoint really is. Prezi’s sleek zooming interface is unrealizable in PowerPoint.

Prezi also isn’t just limited to presentations. Students can use Prezi’s features to create résumés, infosheets, stories, or generate nearly any other text and media-based content they can imagine. Oh yeah, did we mention Prezi is free?

How can you engage students with Prezi? Apart from converting your own lessons into a Prezi format, you can also have students generate their own Prezis on topics of interest. You might even instruct students create lessons for their peers by assigning (or having them choose) topics from your class. Prezi’s format enables greater degrees of freedom so that students can actually create a finished product they are proud of; not just mundane PowerPoint slides or another essay.

If you’re looking for even more novel ideas on how to engage your digital native students, check out our signature course: Technology Driven Classrooms (TDC). TDC provides educators with essential teaching techniques, ideas, and suggestions for educating and inspiring today’s students.

Make sure to check back next week for a new tip on engaging digital natives! And if you didn’t catch it, consider looking at last week’s post on “Flow!”

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