![]() Nonetheless, many prezis composed for classroom use, among those published on the Prezi platform, do not make full use of the tool's capabilities and do not really follow its invitations to storytelling, metaphorical argumentation and spatial reasoning. ![]() Prezi users have much to learn from 'tips and tricks' presentations and from illustrations in showcased prezis. ![]() Prezi is also a verbose and multivocal tool: commercial and technical interests fuel a flow of messages and conversations about how to design prezis, aiming for 'stunning' presentations, for clarity and creativity. Its templates bring to the fore metaphors as a persuasive device the most acclaimed prezis, highlighted through contests and various informal rankings, illustrate the presentation principle of a journey through a visual landscape, using movement to create surprise and perplexity by zooming in, and to achieve clarification by zooming out to the bird's-eye view. Prezi is designed as an evocative technology: it explicitly aims to encourage certain ways of dealing with knowledge, organizing information in space, through movement and storylines. We conclude the paper by highlighting the main findings and reflecting on implications for research on digital rhetoric. We analyze several types of messages from and about Prezi, and we discuss how it is currently used. We then go on to investigate what is Prezi and how we encounter it. The paper is structured as follows: we first discuss the significance of presentation tools for learning. Nonetheless, we propose that these voices leave important aspects uncovered for educational users, and we argue that the Prezi team should redefine its author guidance strategy. The Prezi company, together with dedicated commercial and professional users, create a talkative and plurivocal technology, with a flow of tutorials and showcased presentations. Still, we argue that many educational prezis in psychology fall short of such aims, relying on bullet points in a decorated, quasi slide-based document. Prezi claims to offer an alternative to a much ridiculed PowerPoint, and Prezi's rhetorical options indeed privilege storytelling and metaphors through spatial organization, movement, and visuals. We analyze the presentation software Prezi as an evocative object and a talkative technology that engages users in diverse web-based learning situations. Dachyshyn: Weighed Down by Development: Reflections on Early Childhood Care and Education in East Africa Anna Kirova, Christine Massing, Larry Prochner, Ailie Cleghorn: Shaping the “Habits of Mind” of Diverse Learners in Early Childhood Teacher Education Programs Through Powerpoint: An Illustrative Case Helen Cahill, Julia Coffey, Kylie Smith: Exploring Embodied Methodologies for Transformative Practice in Early Childhood and Youth Louise Derman-Sparks: What I Learned from the Ypsilanti Perry Preschool Project: A Teacher’s Reflections Mathias Urban: At Sea: What Direction for Critical Early Childhood Research? ![]() ![]() A Perspective from Aotearoa (New Zealand) Darcey M. EDITORIAL Mathias Urban: Special Edition: Resisting Normal Science in Educational Research ARTICLES Michael O’Loughlin: A Manifesto for Critical Narrative Research and Pedagogy for/with Young Children: Teacher and Child as Critical Annalist Jenny Ritchie: Diverse Complexities, Complex Diversities: Resisting ‘Normal Science’ in Pedagogical and Research Methodologies. ![]()
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