ILP “Design” - Prezi

For my second Individual Learning Project, I decided to play around with Prezi. I have only used it once before so I did not have much experience with it, but using it for this project has been interesting. I am used to using Google Slides and PowerPoint so using something a little different than those two software was weird. It was like a simplified version of the two with a lot more unique options to choose from for templates and ways to present content. I found that a lot of the templates matched well with many of the topics people present on, which made creating a presentation of Freud's Iceberg of Personalities more interesting. For this project, I wanted to create a presentation on something that interested me and was not related so much to education, like my last project.

In using Prezi, I was able to create a presentation with a background that matched the topic that I had searched. I experimented with the types of slides for the content I put in and the colors used for those slides. I was also able to move them so that they were in the positions for each section of the iceberg. (It will make more sense when you see the presentation.) I tried using animations in my prezi but I did not like they way they looked and it was slightly more complicated than PowerPoint so I decided to leave them out. Before actually starting my presentation, I even took some time and looked at the different templates and other features that are offered.

Overall, it was a fun experience getting to use a website I was not really familiar with. The fun designs and templates would be cool to use in my future elementary classroom and I would consider actually using it to teach. I would just have to learn how to use it better. At one point during the process, I put it in presenter view and it was stuck like that for two hours, so that was not fun. I really need to work on my Prezi skills.

Anyways, here is the link and a screenshot of my project.


https://prezi.com/p/q7qktz5eltqw/

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