Looking for a way to move beyond traditional slides or add new life to old presentations?  Prezi is an easy-to-use presentation tool (as easy to use as PowerPoint) that provides a fresh, new, interactive way to present information to your students.  Driven by Flash animation, Prezi allows you to organize course content in logical ways, while at the same time establishing multiple connections between multiple fields of knowledge.   You can use Prezi to give a presentation in a predetermined “Path,” or explore instead, in response to student interactions.  You can even have your students navigate, contribute to, or create a Prezi on their own.  Prezi also easily integrates media.  (For sample Prezis, see: http://prezi.com/explore/.)  This interactive workshop will familiarize you with the pedagogical and technical aspects of working with Prezi.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• identify some of the advantages of Prezi over traditional presentation tools, like PowerPoint;
• use best practices in teaching with Prezi;
• create their own new Prezi or convert an old PowerPoint presentation into a Prezi;
• and avoid common pitfalls in the creation of Prezis.

This workshop meets in the ETC training room, in B-23 Alumni Hall. Seating is limited. Register today!

The Provost’s Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence and CIDDE are pleased to announce that Susan Ambrose, Associate Provost for Education, Director of the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, Teaching Professor in the Department of History at CMU, and co-author of How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching, will facilitate another book discussion with Pitt faculty this Spring.

Susan joined CIDDE and Pitt faculty for a book discussion on October 7, 2011. We received such positive feedback that we have invited Susan to facilitate another session:

• I want to be Susan Ambrose! She was knowledgeable, enthusiastic, personable, practical, and modeled everything she presented.
• This was helpful and inspiring. [The discussion] touched on many issues common across the disciplines.
• Great material. Great speaker - made material accessible and interesting. Initiated and promoted lively discussion.
• This book discussion was fabulous! I loved the book and the speaker/author was outstanding. I am going to apply these principles in my teaching and my efforts to teach doctoral students how to teach effectively.

For more information about this well-attended session, read the Teaching Times article.

Books will be provided to all registered faculty, and there will be a light lunch.  Seating is limited.

Register today!