Thursday, February 25, 2010

Prezi Meets Gatsby



Here is a Prezi I put together about the themes, symbols and characters of The Great Gatsby. The kids liked the presentation format and it was a nice change of pace from the standard PowerPoint and SMART Notebook software. Take a look and tell me what you think. I think I will do one for each chapter of the book.




Here is a Prezi for Chapter 1. This does not contain all of the information for Chapter 1, but they are great starting points for conversations.



Try it out at Prezi.com!

- @TheNerdyTeacher

3 comments:

  1. Nice Prezis! This looks like a great way to guide thinking and class discussion in a fun, visual way. Well done. I suspect that a lot of other teachers of the Great Gatsby will be using them!

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  2. This certainly shows the application of technology to literature. One might even go a step further and embed visual data to reference setting, characters, links between film and novel, etc. Great program, and keeps interest through "movement".

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  3. Great use of Prezi. Will the students be doing Prezis for their assignment? Maybe you could get each one of them to do a chapter?

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