Title :
Usefulness of Prezi and PowerPoint presentation
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Natural Sci. & Math., Univ. of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/MIPRO.2014.6859667