prezi.com

I hope your break was great and you got some rest.

Today you will set up a prezi account. It's a new, more creative way for you to make presentations than using PowerPoint.

Prezi lets you create your own themes, has much more exciting fonts and effects, and allows you to import pictures (from your hard drive) and youtube videos (directly from youtube). You can zoom in on key ideas, create drawings, and so on. Your presentation ends up looking fluid, movie-like.

Your task:

1. Right click and open in new tab: www.prezi.com

2. Click Explore tab at the top and check out some other people's prezis (Check out "Death of PowerPoint" and "30 Things About Me")

3. Click on Learn. Then click on Lesson 1 for a brief tutorial. (Highly recommended.)

4. Click on sign up (top right hand corner). Select Public Free account.

5. Use your initials only where it asks for your name. Use the email you used to set up your google account.

6. Play around with the technology. If you're not sure what to do, go to step 3.

7. Create a Prezi entitled, "10 Reasons Why I'm so Great"

This is yet another way for you to harness amazing Web 2.0 technology to be even more creative with how you show what you know. Like anything, it might be awkward to use at first but you'll quickly get the hang of it.