ELL+and+Prezi

=ELL and Prezi= By Daisha Douglas

I worked overseas in the UAE in 2011-2012 school year. While working over there I learned that ELL students are very visual learners. I had to teach myself how to make most all of my teaching materials into visual artifacts for them. The more they heard what was being taught and saw it the better understanding they had.

Prezi would have been a great visual and interactive tool for students and for myself. Prezi is an online program that allows you to create your very own presentation. This program allows you to be creative and you can also share them with others. Prezi is a modern day power point that has more options and it also has more visual effects. Prezi can be used not only for education purposes but it can also be used for business purposes.

Using Prezi in the classroom for ELL students can be a great way to expose students to different topics visually and auditory. Prezi can be a great tool for students to use to create their own presentation as well. Having students create their own presentations about the topic they are learning about helps them to deepen their learning. This will allow ELL students to learn about a topic on many different levels.

Some barriers that Prezi can have for ELL students is that it can be difficult in the beginning to know how to create presentation. But, with some step by step instruction the students should be able to create and enjoy making Prezis.