Prezi or PowerPoint? Up to You to Choose

 The topic I am going to focus on today comes from something I just learned in my Production and Utilization of Instructional Technology course.  We just got done recently making a digital safety poster for students of the middle grade level.  The objective of this was to add technology into this lesson by using PowerPoint.  The purpose of this project was to make a poster promoting safety for a subject that we chose.  On the PowerPoint it needed to contain a catchy title, a graphic, three important facts to promote safety, and it had to be readable and show some creativity.  By doing this poster it shows that technology can be incorporated into any project or lesson, but remembering that content and pedagogy always come first, technology should be the last thing added into a lesson.  I chose to discuss this because in our last classroom discussion we all talked about the difference of PowerPoint and Prezi and which one we thought was better, and it was fifty-fifty.  I only know of PowerPoint, I have never heard of Prezi but I am excited to learn about it and how it helpful and applies to the classroom.  I know PowerPoint can be helpful to a classroom from my experience in using it in many times throughout my school career, and I am sure Prezi provides the same yet different qualities that it can bring to the classroom.  It mainly comes down to personal opinion and which one fits your style of teaching better, or simply just one you like better or are more comfortable with using.  I am anxious to see how this works, hopefully it is something else I can add on my list to take with me when I become a teacher.

               

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