This document provides 17 tips for using Prezi in the classroom, including zooming into details in images, creating dynamic Venn diagrams, embedding YouTube videos, having students create their own Prezis, building up presentations over time, using Prezi as a mind map, introducing vocabulary terms, facilitating global collaborations, creating graphic organizers, making advertisements, studying urbanization by embedding Google Street View videos, uploading documents for discussion, using photographs from history, facilitating online meetings, demonstrating De Bono thinking hats, and sorting jumbled information. The document encourages sharing additional tips and collaborating to expand the resource.

1. 17 Interesting Ways* to
use Prezi in the
Classroom
*and tips
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Noncommercial Share Alike 3.0 License.

2. #1 - Zooming into details of a picture
Add an arrow pointing to a key detail in an image.
Clicking on the arrow during "Show" will zoom in
until the arrow fills the screen - a quick and easy way to
focus on key details in a diagram (e.g. a political cartoon,
a diagram of the human body, a map, a work of art).
Press the space bar to zoom back
out.

3. #2 - Dynamic Venn Diagram
Create overlapping circles using the
"Frame" command.
Use these to create a venn diagram
containing images and text investigating a
key question (e.g. "Was Life Good or Bad in
the Middle Ages?")
Images can be dragged (in editing mode)
into the correct spot by students during
discussion.
@russeltarr

4. #3 - Embed YouTube Videos
Embed a YouTube video by pasting the url
of the video into an empty text box.
This only works when you are online and
with the new editor version.

5. #4 - Get Students to make a Prezi
Prezi is a great way to get students to revise or break down a
topic.
Provide them with this Prezi Quickstart Guide as a handout.
What key question will they investigate?
What images will they use?
How will they lay the material out on the canvas?
What path will they draw through their animation?
Students are imaginative: they will produce timelines, venn
diagrams, living graphs and much else besides!

6. #5 - Build up a Prezi over the duration of a topic
Start with a topic heading.
Surround the frame with
topic strands.
Within each topic strand
add smaller frames with
facts, links, pictures and
media as you tackle each
strand.

7. #6 - Use Prezi as a mind map
Although other tools exist, Prezi is free and simple to use.
Simple is good. And unlike most mind maps (except the superb
VUE from Tufts,) it doesn't impose any structure.
used at Island Pacific School

8. #7 - Use Prezi as a mind map
(continued)
I don't want to steal the idea, but here is an example of a mind
map I made with Prezi and the blog post I wrote about it!
You can also watch these
two videos I made on Mind
Mapping with Prezi
1. Kinetic Theory Mind Map
2. Prezi Tutorial90-
Created by @asober

9. #8 - Prezi for vocabulary
Type in the word
to be defined and
zoom in on the
definition
... good for
introducing,
review, studying
vocabulary. Add
images to the
words and Zoom
into them, too.
@vbek

10. #9 - Global Learning Collaborations
Students from
schools around the
world plan and work
collaboratively on
Prezi presentations.
by woodleywonderworks
@vbek

11. #10 - Have Students Create Graphic
Organizers to Understand &
Represent Thinking
Create & share
assignments where
students create graphic
organizers collaboratively
to create or respond to
curriculum or ideas
http://bit.ly/9NpYeB
@dannymaas

12. #11 - Make Cool Adverts in minutes
World Cup ad- Simply use with the free
http://www.screencast-o-
matic.com/
@pschooltools

13. # 12 Using Prezi to Study
Urbanisation by Embedding Google
Street View Videos
I created this prezi to look at
the processes of
Urbanisation and
Suburbanisation.
I created Screencast whilst
using Google street view,
upload them to Youtube and
embedded them in to my
Prezi as Youtube Videos.
http://prezi.com/7xoybadwy
3r2/people-in-cities-
newcastle/
Mark Rollins:-
http://muppetmasteruk.blogspot.com/

14. #13 - Upload documents for class
discussion
Upload a PDF and use Prezi's
frames to zoom in on relevant
sections for discussion. You can
use this for all sorts of activities
such as source analysis in History
or examining a poem in English.
@dmchugh675

15. #14 - Using Photographs from History
Gradually reveal the
wider context of a
photograph by first
zooming in on a small
detail and then gradually
zooming out.
This is a good starter
activity as it gets pupils to
ask questions.
@dmchugh675
http://prezi.com/osqkveggruux/civil-rights/

16. #15 - Prezi Meeting
Prezi Meeting is fab!! I've used it to put groups of up to 10
students together to work on revision for GCSE and A Level.
All the students in the group work on the prezi at once - it helps
if you have already put on a template that you can add to. Each
student has a little 'me' on screen, and you can follow a chosen
one and see how they are contributing to the 'meeting'.
Here's a link to a double bubble film comparison.
http://prezi.com/peoa5mmdinrt/film-studies-2-double-bubble/
The meeting link stays live for one week - so the students can
continue to contribute for homework.
Katie Ogilvie

17. #16 - Using Prezi to demonstrate De
Bono Thinking Hats (colours)
Set your Prezi up with the colour and fonts section to
incorporate the De Bono thinking Hats.
Here are 2 examples:
• 1 - Negative (Black Hat)
• 1 - Ideas (Green Hat)

18. #17 Sort a collection of jumbled truths
Make a poster on Prezi of some mixed up sentences (in this
case number sentences)
Talk about the poster with the students as a starter.
• The students can
check for themselves
whether their answers
were correct by
pressing play.
• They can design their
own for other students
(my 8yr old made this
one
at: http://prezi.com/hxcsomrfv2t8/
maths-problems/)

19. If you would like to:
• Contribute your ideas and tips to the presentation.
• Let me know how you have used the resource.
• Get in touch.
You can email me or I am @tombarrett on Twitter
If you add a tip (or even if you
don't) please tweet about it and
the link so more people can
contribute.
I have created a page for all of the Image: ‘Sharing‘
Interesting Ways presentations on
my blog. Thanks for helping
Tom Barrett
The whole family in one place :-)
Have you seen Maths Maps yet?