Why Animals? A Prezi Production

As you can see from my Prezi, this post goes into a bit of detail about my history and experience of working with animals and other organisms in a Zoological setting. I love teaching young children about animals, the environment, and lifestyle choices which can help both. However, I also love talking with older students, middle and high school, about the more in-depth aspect of animals, conservation threats, husbandry, etc. In my ideal profession, working at Disney World, I will be able to do both, introducing younger children to animals and conservation lifestyle choices, as well as older children and adults about the challenges these animals are facing. If I were to teach in a classroom setting, I would be more middle school and high school focused, while also being an occasional guest speaker to elementary classrooms. That way, I can create a connection with the younger students, while still being able to educate with more detail to the older students.

In order to make the lovely presentation you have just perused through, I used an online website Prezi.com. Prezi was very straight forward to use and is quite similar to PowerPoint. Some templates are more confusing than others, but deciding which one to utilize is quite simple because there are little bar graphs on the side, bolded to indicate difficulty. This one was of a medium difficulty because of the various topic and subtopic options. The most challenging part I found about Prezi was actually figuring out how to rotate the photos. When I first uploaded them, they popped up horizontal, even though they were vertical photographs. Anyways, I tried going through all the settings in an attempt to figure out how to rotate the photos, to no avail. So, begrudgingly so, I clicked on the "help" button and was given instructions on how to rotate the image (press and hold the command button then move the cursor to the corners). The help tab was very user-friendly, as was the site itself. Figuring out how to embed the photo was another challenging point, but as long as you make sure there is only ONE backslash (/)before the word embed in the code, then you are in the clear. If you are not a fan of PowerPoint or Google Presentation, I would recommend Prezi.