In terms of presentation tool "Prezi"

Blog Post #2 - Presentation Tools & Screencasting Tools

< Prezi >



▶ Description of the presentation tool I used

- Website address: http://prezi.com/index/

I used Prezi for my presentation in terms of explaining phonetic alphabet "A and a".

Prezi is basically that you can create your own presentation with a variety of different skills. For example, there are many different types of templates that you can use and also you can choose the template for the visual metaphor. You can also have a total picture of your presentation and if you zoom it in you can present your details more closely. Besides, you can present and share your idea easily through your own URL address.

▶ Description of the the activity I created using Prezi

- My activity: https://sites.google.com/site/jojosenglish123/

I made a presentation for my 5 and 6 years old students who struggle to learn sounding and recognising alphabet letters. There are a capital letter "A" and  small letter "a". And the next page explains what the letter is related to in real life. For example, there are "ant", "apple" and "airplane". At the last of the page has an evaluation material such as matching game. Thus, I can let them match the words to have them participate more to understand the concept of the lesson.

▶ Description of my experience using Prezi. 

Q. Would you recommend it to other teachers?  Why or why not?

Yes, I would like to recommend Prezi to other teachers.

First of all, it was very easy to access and make the presentation. You can easily sign in the membership with your name and email address. After you have the membership if you click the "Learn" tab Prezi will explain what you need to do to create your new prezi file. 

Second of all, this is a very modern style of presenting the lesson for teachers and students. It looks very new to Korean people yet. Which means, it can grab students attention quite quickly and consistently. I do not mean that every new things effect like this. But when the content is strong and teacher can handle this tool comfortably, it will work with the lesson well. 

Thirdly, you can share your prezi files with other people. Sharing ideas is very important to develop things better. You can give your ideas to others but also you can get some new and good idea from others as well.

▶ Description of potential uses Prezi could have in the Korean EFL learning context.

As I mentioned earlier, I consider this tool is still a new thing in Korea. Thus, it will be worthy of notice to teachers, students and parents.

Now, I am going to refer to the parents side with culture of education in Korea. Realistically in Korea, if the teacher wants to teach the students well it is necessary to have parents role education for support at home. What I am trying to say is Prezi is easy to play at home because all you need to do is just click the URL address and play it. Then students will review well at home easily, also parents will be question-free in terms of what their children learn at school. Therefore, the education is going to be able to have teamwork.

Also, it is very beneficial to teachers who try to develop their own work. There is a possibility that Prezi is not going to work every time teacher presents, if the content is not very strong or the order of explanation is not effective, etc. From the mistakes and failure, teacher will learn many things and will try to get better for the next class.