PowerPoint is dead. Long Live Prezi

Bored of those bullet points and presentations that seem little more than the having the bullet points read to you? Fed up with irritating animations? Can't be bothered or talented to be creative?

Light on Prezi

Try Prezi. This is a different approach to presentations. Basically, you lay out your comments, images, video clips on a blank surface, then you click on each part to indicate the order and play. The program zooms into each part like a plane flying over a landscape.

You can rotate and resize text so the program swoops around your presentation, in a way very diferent from PowerPoint. You can set it up to autoplay.

However, the whole document can be saved as a pdf, so you have a handout/summary. There is fun to be had arranging your text and images to show a theme/diagram/mindmap or whatever. There are loads of good examples on the site.

The whole thing is online (so use a browser; it needs Flash) - the free version means that you create/host all your work online and it's available for all to see. As educationalists, you can get free access to the intermediate version, so you can keep your work private.

Give it a whirl, literally!.