Prezi vs Powerpoint

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Prezi vs. PowerPoint Both Prezi vs. PowerPoint articles by David Wicks and Phil Bird talk about this new age presentation tool called prezi that brings a presentation to life and really gets the audience involved and interested in the topic of discussion. However, they don’t really go into depth about what PowerPoint really does if you take the time to learn all the functions of the presentation software, and I believe they do this either because they, themselves, really don’t know how to completely use PowerPoint, or to try to show how PowerPoint pales in comparison to this new age presentation software called prezi. According to Wicks, prezi is a web-based presentation tool that uses a map layout and zooming to show contextual relationships which addresses some of the shortcomings of PowerPoint. Wicks shows that prezi differs from PowerPoint in that it uses non-linear navigation and is web-based, but has limited printing options, while PowerPoint uses linear navigation, has a slide stack layout, is computer-based, and has multiple printing options. Bird goes into more of theory when speaking of prezi by stating that during a presentation with a presenter at the front and participants who have come to a session on the basis of the title or abstract of the session, it’s not going to be that much different than PowerPoint. It would be just a bit swirlier, when most presentations are essentially linear, which would make PowerPoint the better choice, because it’s linear. According to Bird, it’s fair to say that prezi has a greater emphasis on the visual, while PowerPoint gives more clout to written content, but the reality is that you could make a really visual PowerPoint and a really texty prezi. As far as negatives go, I guess the only negative that I would give prezi is that it isn’t linear, when most presentations are, but I believe it makes up for that
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