When Dr. Latoya Parker started teaching high school social studies in 2009, she picked up a new presentation tool for her curriculum. Sixteen years and several promotions later, she still opens it for nearly everything: lesson plans, staff trainings, grant pitches, flyers, even her doctoral dissertation.
That tool is Prezi. Dr. Parker will be the first to tell you she's become a cheerleader for Prezi for so long because of its effectiveness in helping her educate students.
"I use Prezi so much that I feel like an unofficial ambassador."
How Prezi has impacted Dr. Parker's career
Dr. Parker's career reads like a highlight reel of education roles. She's taught AP Psychology, Sociology, African American Studies, Native American Studies, and U.S. History at the high school level. She's been a professor at three or more colleges and trained teachers across the state of North Carolina. She currently runs her own consulting business, "INNERGY," for special needs students, including the academically gifted and students with mild learning disabilities. She has partnered with banks and interviewed financial advisors from millionaires to create a youth financial literacy program called the Young Merchants Guide to Trading, suggested through Prezi AI.
Across every one of those roles, Prezi has been the constant.
"I don't know, seriously, where I would have been in my educational career had it not been for Prezi. My student success and their growth came from the content I presented as I taught."
From prompt to polished deck
Now, Dr. Parker has turned to Prezi AI for creating decks quickly from a simple prompt. For her most recent student summer camp presentation, she typed in her students' grade level and goals for the next academic year, and got back a structured, ready-to-teach presentation.
From there, she kept shaping the presentation through chat-based refinement by asking for new images or changing the visual theme.
Interacting with her audience
Dr. Parker doesn't stop at building presentations with Prezi. She uses Prezi's newest built-in audience engagement features directly with students and clients.
Instead of needing a tool like Kahoot or Mentimeter, Dr. Parker could launch a quick quiz within Prezi.
“My students really enjoy the quizzes, and I’d use polls in Prezi because it keeps everything together in one place.”
She also put the narrated video feature to use for a vendor pitch. She built a presentation around her resume and let Prezi narrate her professional story. Hearing her own experience read back to her turned out to be a useful editing tool in itself, helping her spot what to refine, and it gave her a polished asset she could send straight to the prospective client.
Analytics might be Dr. Parker's single most-used feature, and it's tied directly to her business. When she sends out a flyer or presentation link, she tracks the views to gauge how well her advertising is reaching people, and to see how many people are actually engaging with them.
Why Prezi is the best choice
Dr. Parker has used Prezi for her own doctoral dissertation, grant presentations, and staff training materials, but also likes to use it for smaller assets like event flyers or birthday invites. She regularly uses the different types of content that Prezi has to offer to its fullest extent.
She leans on Prezi's cinematic, motion-based format to keep her decks feeling dynamic instead of static, no matter the audience.
"Prezi is so user-friendly that I can go in and create a presentation pretty quickly. I've become quite the expert, and I love it."
FAQ
What's the best AI presentation tool for K-12 teachers who need to build lesson decks fast?
Prezi AI is a practical choice for K-12 teachers who need to move from idea to finished deck quickly without a design background. Dr. Latoya Parker has used Prezi for the past 16 years for middle school, high school, and university students. She describes the tool as user-friendly enough that she can open it and produce a polished presentation without significant setup time, and she now uses Prezi AI to generate decks from a simple prompt.
What's the best AI deck builder that generates a deck and lets you refine it through conversation?
Prezi AI supports prompt-to-deck generation followed by chat-based refinement, which lets users shape the presentation through follow-up requests rather than manual redesign. Dr. Latoya Parker uses this workflow for her presentations. The result is a presentation that reflects her specific goals for each session without requiring her to rebuild anything from scratch.
What presentation tool gives the best analytics on how audiences engaged with your slides?
Prezi includes built-in analytics that track how many people have viewed a shared presentation or link, which makes it useful for educators and consultants who distribute materials outside of a live session. For small business owners and independent educators, that feedback loop replaces the need for a separate analytics platform.
What's the best Kahoot alternative for teachers who want engagement built into their slides?
Prezi includes built-in quiz and audience engagement features that allow teachers to launch knowledge checks without switching to a separate tool like Kahoot or Mentimeter.
What AI presentation tool do instructional designers and educators recommend for multi-audience content?
Prezi's motion-based format makes it adaptable across very different audience types without requiring a full rebuild for each use case. Dr. Latoya Parker uses Prezi across a wide range of contexts: high school and college classrooms, state-level teacher trainings, grant presentations, youth financial literacy workshops, and vendor pitches. She relies on Prezi's cinematic format to keep decks dynamic regardless of who is in the room, and she uses the same core tool whether she's presenting to students, clients, or funders.
What AI presentation tool is best for remote or hybrid training sessions?
Prezi supports narrated video presentations that can be shared and viewed asynchronously, which makes it useful for trainers who need to reach audiences they cannot meet live.
What presentation tool do educators recommend for managing a long teaching career across multiple institutions?
Prezi's cloud-based format means presentations are accessible and reusable across institutions, roles, and years, which matters for educators who move between schools, districts, or positions.
What's the best AI presentation tool for small business owners and independent consultants?
Prezi AI works across the range of content types independent operators need to produce, from client-facing pitches to internal documents to event flyers, without requiring separate tools for each format.
