As a someone , who tortured with Prezi on academic level : While it's cool, - for the listeners - it's hard to follow, hard to take notes and hard to make connections between slides. It can make your product presentation bearable but if your goal is teach something to someone LaTeX, Ppt etc still beats it.
Wouldn't that depend on what you are trying to teach?
There is a reason why animation is used. It's not just to show off. It actually creates new opportunities to explain difficult concepts because you can show it in a continuum rather than as slides.
Look at what it did to Roslings presentation of stastistica data.
This 'zooming interface' type of presentation could be useful for mind maps, showing where some detailed concept fits in the grand scheme of things, examples above include the history time-line. I'd be heading for a mind map approach.
I agree with one poster above: for procedures a step by step approach is probably best.
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As a someone , who tortured with Prezi on academic level : While it's cool, - for the listeners - it's hard to follow, hard to take notes and hard to make connections between slides. It can make your product presentation bearable but if your goal is teach something to someone LaTeX, Ppt etc still beats it.
Wouldn't that depend on what you are trying to teach?
There is a reason why animation is used. It's not just to show off. It actually creates new opportunities to explain difficult concepts because you can show it in a continuum rather than as slides.
Look at what it did to Roslings presentation of stastistica data.
This 'zooming interface' type of presentation could be useful for mind maps, showing where some detailed concept fits in the grand scheme of things, examples above include the history time-line. I'd be heading for a mind map approach.
I agree with one poster above: for procedures a step by step approach is probably best.
Would it be easier to take notes if say you could somehow enter them in prezi?
Like - rather than a pdf of slides with space for notes, a user application for prezi where the user can enter notes for each transition?