• DocumentCode
    270652
  • Title

    Usefulness of Prezi and PowerPoint presentation

  • Author

    SÌŒpernjak, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Natural Sci. & Math., Univ. of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    26-30 May 2014
  • Firstpage
    762
  • Lastpage
    764
  • Abstract
    In everyday teaching practice great helping to the clearness and visualization of the content are presentations. Two decades ago, the blackboard notes were replaced with traditional slides and overhead projector. With the availability of computer hardware and software are traditional slides converted to electronic slides. In our area the most frequently are used PowerPoint slides, but the problem is payable package of the Microsoft Office´. Users looking for free of charge and useful presentation programs. For teachers and students is Prezi a free online presentation service provider, where the applicability in four years grow up to more than 500 million users. The article presents the results of the usefulness of PowerPoint and Prezi presentations among university biology students. They mostly use the PowerPoint presentations because generally they do not know Prezi presentations. Students also expressed the advantages and disadvantages of one and the other presentation program.
  • Keywords
    computer aided instruction; educational courses; public domain software; teaching; PowerPoint presentation; Prezi presentations; electronic slides; free online presentation service provider; teaching practice; university biology students; Biology; Computers; Educational institutions; Software; Visualization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO), 2014 37th International Convention on
  • Conference_Location
    Opatija
  • Print_ISBN
    978-953-233-081-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MIPRO.2014.6859667
  • Filename
    6859667