So after 18 months of shilly-shallying around and being a bit scared to use it, not knowing what I was doing with it, not having a computer that was compatible with it, creating one and then actually forgetting to use it in a information literacy session (I had a powerpoint backup), I finally got around to using a proper Prezi in a proper session with proper students.
Rachel and I had a 15 minute slot in a kind of 'welcome back to your core module, you'd better pull your socks up and start working hard' first year lecture so we thought using a visually arresting Prezi would be a good way to tell them about 10 things you might not know about the library. 15 minutes was not long enough to cover any of the subject-related stuff so it was designed to be a fast-paced, riproaring tour of some of the services and facilities they might not have used yet.
Rachel did the hard bit (talking through the slides) while I navigated the presentation and flipped between Prezi and the websites we'd linked to, then we finished with a quiz (very good chocolates on offer for people who shouted out the answers) based on the facts we had told them.
We took a fairly tame approach - not too much seasickness-inducing swooshing around and a fairly plain template, but it did what we wanted it to do.
On the whole, a pretty good first experience with Prezi (and a steep learning curve when I realised navigating between weblinks back to Prezi was much easier on Internet Explorer than Chrome - who knew?!) and great to team teach so that if anything did go wrong, one of us could keep on talking while the other sorted it out. Nothing went wrong though, so it was all good.
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