And away with the Powerpoint presentation! In yet another example of dope cloud-based applications replacing increasingly obsolete software, flash-based presentation app, Prezi, shatters the linear shackles of slide-by-slide presentation programs.

As our first lesson on Prezi will tell you, it is a cloud-based presentation platform that allows you to create multimedia presentations that pan, zoom and shift to help share ideas. The slides and templates of traditional presentation tools, like Powerpoint, are replaced with a canvas where you can use different views or camera stops to queue or emphasize talking points. These rich, moving presentations have been used in numerous TED Talks and are starting to make headway in the corporate world, replacing traditional slide-based presentation tools.

Here is an example of Prezi in use:

Watch our course to learn how to get the most out of Prezi.