Post a Prezi

I do not know how many of you have heard of a Prezi before, but although I am not technology savvy my partner, Bari, is and she has introduced me to a world of technology that I never knew existed. A Prezi is a little like a PowerPoint or a hypertext with a few exceptions. It is a graphed spreadsheet of a picture which, when zoomed into at different places, can harbor text and serve as a very effective presentation tool. I made one for my preceptor group's end of the semester presentation in Servant Leadership last semester and Tim Palmer says that Prezi changed his life, although I’m not sure how, I can imagine it was something like my awakening to technology. So, a Prezi is what I immediately thought of when Mr. Andrews said final project. I was leery about how to go about putting together a Prezi on a Faulknerian concept, however. Fortunately Sonia De Hierro was looking for a partner and a double sophomore team sounded good to me in a fourth level class. I’d thought maybe a family tree collage would be a good idea and Sonia brought allot of great ideas to the drawing board about the genealogy concept and a way to incorporate it into a Prezi project. So instead of a big art piece of collage we are creating a hypertext like Prezi incorporating the family tree concept with many of the families Faulkner creates through his characters. I've been working on creating our own original Prezi design through images made and adapted in my Introduction to Multimedia class, so I’m kind of killing two birds with one stone in the assignment area. I’m really excited about our concept and I certainly hope that it ends up as cool as its beginning to sound. I also hope that it is up to the par of having a four at the beginning of our class title, which seems to be emphasized quite allot in class.