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10-24-2013
07:30 AM
Prezi. Either you love it, hate it, or have no idea what it is. If you’re in the last category, go check out www.prezi.com. Me? I’m in the first category. I love its Web 2.0-ness, its fluidity, its boundlessness, its exploration of virtual space. But haters hate and not without reason. I’ve had more than one colleague complain about “Prezi-sickness” from endless zooming and swirling. I point out that dismissing Prezi because of bad Prezis is akin to dismissing PowerPoint, which is almost always bad. I’m thinking about the question now because the Dean needs a snazzy presentation for a donor event. “Prezi!” I say. “No!” my colleague says. And what say you?
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About the Author
Barclay Barrios is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Programs at Florida Atlantic University, where he teaches freshman composition and graduate courses in composition methodology and theory, rhetorics of the world wide web, and composing digital identities. He was Director of Instructional Technology at Rutgers University and currently serves on the board of Pedagogy. Barrios is a frequent presenter at professional conferences, and the author of Emerging.
