Tutoring Schedule for Spring 2011

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PREZI: Better than Power Point

This is an example of a Prezi:

Why should you move beyond slides? on Prezi

With today's modern technology, and all the media that students are constantly bombarded with, why should teachers or even students themselves expect their classes to fully engage in a "boring power point" slide presentation? There are many alternative presentation formats, including PREZI!

According to Prezi.com, "The creators of Prezi, Adam Somlai-Fischer and Peter Halacsy, started working on Prezi in 2007, as they felt slides limited their ability to develop and explain ideas. Prezi was their response to solve these issues. Prezi officially launched in April 2009 from Budapest."

Today Prezi is quickly being adapted for use in the classrooms of schools, colleges, businesses, and more as a more efficient, and more attractive, format for presentations. Prezi is completey free to use, and very easy to learn. Not only can you create Prezi's to support a live presentation, but you can also use Prezi to share your presentation on the web by embedding a Prezi into a website or blog or by emailing or sharing a link to your Prezi. Not only are Prezi's more fun to watch than traditional power point slide presentations, but they're also fun to create!

Here's what people have been saying about Prezi:

• "Eye-popping presentations" -Facebook engineer
• "Far beyond a simple slideshow" -New York Times
• "Insanely great" -HarvardBusinessReview.org
• "Keeps ideas flowing" -Chris Anderson, TED

To find out more about Prezi, visit http://prezi.com/. From the main page, you can watch a video to learn more about the advantages of using Prezi. It's completely free to sign up, and you can immediately start creating your first Prezi. When you go to get started, a Prezi tutorial will automatically load, showing you exactly how to begin!

Academy: Prezi Workflow in 15 minutes on Prezi

Library as Museum: Art Throughout Lewis Library

Frank & Laura Lewis Library has a variety of artwork on display throughout the library. Many of the pieces on display are the work of LaGrange College students and professors, including the sculpture of alumni artist Matt Montgomery and current ceramics and sculpture professor Tim Taunton. In addition to sculpture, other medium represented include photography, drawings, etchings, patintings, and textile. If you have not taken the time to peruse the artwork on display, please make a point to! Works are located on all three floors. (Photos by Rachel Evans)

New LaGrange College Weblog for National History Day

Click HERE , or on the photo below, to visit the new LaGrange College Weblog for National History Day. The LaGrange College History Department’s National History Day Blog is part of the Department’s effort to support and assist Georgia Educators as they work to create dynamic and active learning opportunities for their students through National History Day. The History Department and Dr. Kevin Shirley hope this page can be a gateway to information, resources and support. You can also reach the page through the link posted to the library blog's Links page.

Travelers' Alert!!

The library has set up a new map and guidebook collection on the 3rd floor (near the Technology Help Desk). If you are heading off with any of the Jan Term travel courses, you may want to find a current guidebook on your destination country. Examples below:

Also, we've started a map exchange. Feel free to borrow the maps you need and if you have extra maps from your own travels, please donate them for others to use. As always, if you have suggestions about additional travel books that the library should purchase, then drop a note with titles listed in the suggestion box next to the copier on the main floor or email your suggestions using the "Ask-A-Librarian" icon on the library's homepage.
We have an especially strong collection of South American guidebooks and maps thanks to a donation by a traveller to those areas.
(Click on the photos below to enlarge; lower photos by Rachel Evans.)