Prezi+Lesson

=It's All About Me Prezi Lesson=

Students are just learning Prezi. We have covered the basics together, and this will be there first Prezi on their own. To make the project more personal, and hopefully interesting, they are going to create a Prezi all about them. They will be given several items that have to be included in the Prezi, but they are free to add their own images and to group the information the way they want. This will allow the students to focus more on Prezi then on gathering information. Students will be graded on their oral presentation of the Prezi to the class, grammar & spelling, and creativity of the Prezi. Students will be encouraged to incorporate personal photos into the project to help with their oral presentation. Students are usually more comfortable talking about themselves and their own pictures.

**Lesson Reflection**
After doing Prezi’s together to learn the software, students just plunged right into this project, and everyone seemed excited by the project idea. Many brought in pictures to be used and there seemed to be a quiet competition to see who could be the most imaginative with the layout and zooming Prezi offers.

A project and rubric were a much better way to assess how much the students had learned about Prezi. A standardized (multiple choice) test would not have brought out the enthusiasm or creativity I saw in my students that this project did. A standardized test also would not have shown me if the students could actually create a Prezi.

This project proved to me that if I make my projects personable, then the students will work harder on them. The class needs to do more oral presentations so the students get more comfortable with them. The students like Prezi and how it allows them more freedom to arrange information.