Prezi is a service that offers free and paid options for creating online presentations. This is not your mother’s PowerPoint! While there are similarities, Prezi is more dynamic and less linear in nature than PowerPoint and its clones.

Prezi is not without its limitations, though… you can create a pdf to use as handouts, but each view is a whole page.  There are a finite number of shapes and drawing options, but it is still quite flexible. The results can be very eye-catching (or downright dizzying, if the creator gets carried away) and may keep an audience much more engaged than a predictable PowerPoint.

All presentations created with the free version are publicly accessible, and carry the Prezi logo. Paid versions allow the user to limit access and to use their own logo, and the Pro version comes with downloadable ‘desktop’ software so it can be used completely offline.

All account types offer a variety of sharing and saving options, seen in this screen snippet:

Here’s an example of a Prezi tutorial, created for libraries in the South Central Kansas Automation Network (SCKAN) consortium: