PREZI-Review

Using Prezi to finish my first group presentation in college is really a wonderful journey for me.

The most difficult thing for our group-November at the beginning of the task was the content of our Prezi. At the first meeting, we chose a traditional way of brainstorming that was to divide the reality into several categories such as the assignment sheet mention—science, philosophy, culture and art. It was a safe way but lacking of innovation. Excitedly, I received an e-mail from Yao next day morning. He said that we may show our own interests and life in the presentation.

At our second meeting, we started over in a totally different way. Not just an academic mode of thinking, the divergent thinking promoted our task significantly. At this time, instead of confining our focus on reality, we only wrote key words related to our own interests and life. One reason of talking about our own interests is our main audiences of our presentation are our classmates. In another word, they are our peers, so they may be able to find their interests in our Prezi.

Then the next problem appeared: how to connect these stuffs with reality? The approach and the structure actually reflect the strengths of our presentation. We found out the overlapped contents in our brainstorming-map and then classified them into three divisions that were life, sports and pop-culture. In addition, all three categories could be related to real & material which should be the starting point of our presentation.  Because we would do the presentation as a group, we must use some method to enhance its integrity. To achieve this goal, we agreed to make the ending-points of all parts of our presentation to Ideal & Abstract. And stuffs we plugged in our Prezi are all purposed to connect the binary ‘real & material’ and ‘ideal & abstract’ logically.

However, our Prezi did not fully take advantage of the pro of this presentation tool. If we have more time, we may use ‘rotation’, ‘zoom in’ and ‘zoom out’ to create proper tension in our Prezi. Compared to other group’s work, the claims of our Prezi could be also improved by inserting some quotations. 

Quincy’s Prezi included three categories—physical reality, abstract reality and human culture. They used a more academic approach in their presentation. Their presentation started with introduction of  forms of reality and then spread out the discussion.

Unlike our group, Quincy used a lot of quotations to illustrate their ideas. This is good, however lack of attractions. If they could include more pictures, videos and their own stories in their Prezi, the presentation would be more interesting and alluring. Furthermore, the decorative typeface for the word ‘perception’ and ‘imperialism’ is hard to read. According to WOVENText, this should be used for informal, personal documents.

Their Prezi created wonderful visual effect to viewers by using lots of ‘rotation’, ‘zoom in’ and ‘zoom out’. Nevertheless, the persuasive force of the presentation itself is not strong enough. Firstly, the Prezi does not have a clear structure. They introduced that there are three forms of reality at the beginning of the presentation. At the first two parts of the Prezi, they talked about two forms of reality—physical and abstract. So the audience would assume the next part is the third form of reality—ineffable. However, they started to talk about human culture. The consistence of the presentation was broken. Secondly, there are a lot of same ideas however classified into different categories in the Prezi. ‘Science’ exists in both the categories of ‘physical reality’ and ‘human culture’; ‘religion’ exists in the categories of ‘intangible reality’ and ‘human culture’. So what category should these things be classified to exactly? Moreover, Quincy divided the ‘physical reality’ into two categories that is ‘tangible reality’ and ‘intangible reality’. But the stuffs in ‘intangible reality’ are almost the same as those in ‘abstract reality’.