Prezi

I found "Prezi" (http://prezi.com) as a suggested Web 2.0 tool. Wow! Am I impressed! It's PowerPoint on steroids! I think we're PowerPoint-ed to death. How many meetings have you attended where you had the presenter READ THE SLIDES to you?!! (pet peeve of mine, obviously.) And those themes! Man, I want to strangle the person who uses dark type on a dark PowerPoint theme.

PowerPoint is linear whereas Prezi is multidimensional. It zooms and twists and turns. (Why, if you set it up right, I bet you could even make your audience puke! How fun is that?!!) I think you can embed Prezi-ntations into your blogs. Haven't tried it.. may just do that eventually as I get the hang of this blogging thing.

It's easy to insert/embed video (YouTube clips!), sound, and graphics. Try it. I think you'll enjoy working with it. I'd suggest transforming an existing PowerPoint presentation. Next time you have to give a presentation, give a Prezi-ntation! (No, they didn't hire me nor pay me and I realize that last statement was pretty lame but ya gotta end these things so you don't just keep rambling and rambling and........