Prezi vs. PowerPoint

PowerPoint and Prezi both have the same idea in mind; both are made to give presentations in an appealing way. PowerPoint is a program that must be purchased and downloaded onto a PC or Mac, where as Prezi has a free option that only requires you to have access to the Internet. PowerPoint is a more linear and structured program that gives the option of one side after another slide. Prezi is a more open concept where there is no set structured layout that users are limited to like the linear slide-to-slide option PowerPoint has.  In PowerPoint there are many options that allow differentiation of the very plain slide-to-slide method.  PowerPoint offers a variety of transitions, animations, and sounds to distinguish slide shows from one another.  Although I am not incredibly familiar with Prezi I do know that you can create whatever path you would like and Prezi formats it as if you are moving on a map. Prezi gives you a grid where you can make something as big or as small as you would like, and when your ready to view it you can zoom in as if it were normal sized. Like PowerPoint, Prezi offers templates that you begin with to start you off in the right direction and then you can customize them and make the presentation your own. For people who want a very straightforward organized presentation I would tell them to use PowerPoint, however if you were looking for some less conventional and new I would say to try out Prezi.