Farhangian University · 10 Hours · October 2020
Technical teaching | Visual communication | Presentation software | Teacher development
A dedicated university presentation-tool workshop introducing Prezi to educators, documented by an institution-prepared announcement naming Soroush Neyestani as instructor and specifying a ten-hour course.
01 — Project at a Glance
| Dimension | Description |
|---|---|
| University context | Farhangian University, Khorasan Razavi, Iran |
| Workshop | Training in Prezi presentation software |
| Instructor | Soroush Neyestani (named and pictured in the original announcement) |
| Target audience | University teaching staff; the banner says special for professors of Farhangian University |
| Advertised duration | 10 hours |
| Historical announcement | Instagram publication dated 24 October 2020 |
| Advertised opening | Monday, 5 Aban 1399 (26 October 2020), according to the instructor's contemporaneous caption |
| Poster design | Prepared by the university, as explicitly stated in the accompanying caption |
| Portfolio category | Independent university workshop / professional knowledge transfer |
The Prezi course deserves its own portfolio entry rather than being combined with the separate PowerPoint workshop. Although both concern presentations, their tools, educational emphasis, advertised duration and surviving evidence are distinct.
02 — Why This Workshop Matters
Delivering knowledge to an audience requires more than accurate content. University educators also need to decide how to guide attention, connect ideas and make the organization of a topic visible. Software can help or hinder that process depending on how it is used.
Prezi provides an alternative to the familiar conventional slide-deck model. Its presentation environment is commonly associated with a visual canvas, spatial arrangement and navigation between sections. Those characteristics make it a meaningful tool to discuss in a teacher-development setting: the presenter can consider the overarching structure of a topic alongside the detail of individual sections.
This historical workshop brought that application into a university training context. Its documented purpose was straightforward: a 10-hour course on Prezi presentation software, specifically advertised for Farhangian University teaching staff. Its significance within my portfolio lies in the combination of software familiarity, educator-facing instruction and the communication challenge of introducing a less conventional presentation tool to an academic audience.
The publicly retained evidence confirms the application, audience, duration, instructor and announced opening date. It does not preserve a complete minute-by-minute syllabus or participant-performance report; therefore this case study avoids inventing module counts, practical exercises, attendee totals or success metrics.
03 — Institutional Setting and Original Announcement
The university-produced Persian announcement carried the Farhangian University Khorasan Razavi branding and identified the workshop as:
دوره آموزش نرمافزار ارائه مطلب (۱۰ ساعت) — Prezi
A 10-hour course in presentation software: Prezi.
A prominent label indicated that the program was intended for university professors / teaching staff. The instructor's photograph and the Persian name Soroush Neyestani appeared directly on the poster, making the teaching role explicit rather than inferred from an informal caption alone.
The associated Instagram post, dated 24 October 2020, states that the Prezi course would begin on Monday, 5 Aban, and specifically notes that the university designed the promotional poster. These are useful documentary details: they anchor the project in an identifiable historical university activity while preserving the distinction between my contribution as instructor and the institution's graphic-production work.
04 — The Pedagogical Opportunity
The choice of a presentation tool has consequences for how a lesson feels to its audience. Linear decks are useful for sequential arguments and predictable navigation. A visual canvas, by contrast, can provide an overview from which an instructor moves into related subjects and returns to the larger picture.
In educator training, this distinction opens several productive questions:
- How should the central idea of a lecture be represented visually?
- Which sections are genuinely sequential, and which have conceptual relationships worth showing together?
- How can movement between subjects help reveal structure rather than merely produce animation?
- When does a visual overview help an audience retain context?
- How much information should be introduced at once so that the presenter remains in control of the explanation?
- How can a presentation support the instructor's spoken narrative without duplicating it on screen?
These are interpretive educational use cases for Prezi, included to explain the relevance of the documented workshop. They should not be misread as a preserved quotation of its original internal syllabus.
05 — Course Identity: A Focused, Ten-Hour Workshop
The event was not announced as a general-purpose computer-literacy course or a degree module. Its message was intentionally concise: learn a specific presentation-software environment in a ten-hour professional workshop.
That scope distinguishes it from my separate 20-hour introductory-and-advanced PowerPoint 2019 workshop at the same university. PowerPoint's advertisement explicitly discussed electronic-content production for virtual education; the Prezi poster instead focused on presentation software for teaching staff. Neither advertisement should be used to invent a stronger or broader certification than the source describes.
The ten-hour allocation also communicates the nature of the program: concentrated professional development rather than an extended undergraduate or postgraduate academic appointment. In the portfolio, it is classified accordingly as an invited technical teaching engagement.
06 — My Contribution
I served as the named instructor for the university's Prezi training activity. My responsibility was the technical teaching role: bringing a specialized presentation application into a teacher-focused learning environment and communicating its use in a way that was relevant to professional educators.
This work extended my technical-instruction experience beyond general computing and Microsoft Office. It demonstrates the ability to move between tools while maintaining a consistent objective: enabling people to use software more effectively in their own work. An effective trainer must translate interface concepts, anticipate learners' questions, explain the connection between features and tasks, and keep the subject grounded in the participant's professional context.
The institutional announcement is particularly useful evidence because it directly identifies the instructor. I do not claim authorship of its graphic design: my October 2020 caption expressly credited the university with preparing the poster.
Professional capabilities represented
| Capability | How the workshop relates to it |
|---|---|
| Application-specific instruction | Teaching a dedicated presentation environment instead of merely discussing software in general terms |
| Knowledge transfer | Communicating technical capabilities to an educator audience |
| Visual communication literacy | Connecting a presentation tool with the organization of information and the flow of a lecture |
| Tool adaptability | Working across presentation approaches rather than limiting instruction to one Office product |
| Institutional collaboration | Delivering a university-advertised training activity with institutional promotion |
| Professional development | Contributing to a short-form workshop aimed at teaching staff |
No unsupported claims are made about formal university employment status, classroom evaluations, participant counts, original Prezi templates or officially awarded academic credit.
07 — How It Fits My Larger Work
This Prezi workshop is best viewed as part of a broader record of professional technical instruction. In earlier engagements I taught software and computing subjects in an academic environment; at Farhangian University I also delivered PowerPoint training focused on digital learning content.
The two Farhangian courses show a useful contrast:
| PowerPoint 2019 Workshop | Prezi Workshop |
|---|---|
| Introductory and advanced PowerPoint | Dedicated Prezi software training |
| 20 advertised hours | 10 advertised hours |
| Explicit focus on electronic-content creation for virtual education | Explicit focus on presentation software for Farhangian University educators |
| Broader supporting historical caption about practical digital-literacy themes | Short 24 October 2020 announcement identifying the starting Monday |
| Separate original institutional poster | Separate university-designed poster |
Their shared theme is technical communication for educators, but each has a distinct audience-facing proposition and independent documentary trail. That is why they are published as two separate portfolio entries.
08 — Evidence, Attribution and Verification Boundaries
Evidence item A — Institution-designed poster. Names Farhangian University, identifies the training subject as Prezi, shows the duration as ten hours, specifies the faculty-oriented audience, and prints my name and portrait as course instructor.
Evidence item B — Dated Instagram post. Published on 24 October 2020; announces a Monday, 5 Aban beginning; states that the university was responsible for poster design.
Evidence item C — The author's account. I identify this as one of two university teaching workshops I delivered at Farhangian University. This user-supplied recollection complements the original publicity rather than replacing it.
Accuracy boundaries. The supplied materials do not establish how many participants attended, the precise delivery modality, the exact internal lesson plan, whether a certification was offered for Prezi, or whether the course was repeated. Those points are intentionally omitted. Prezi is a third-party software name and the university's visual branding remains its own.
09 — Publication-Ready Website Text
Teaching Prezi to University Educators — Farhangian University, 2020
In October 2020, I taught a dedicated Prezi presentation-software workshop in the professional-development context of Farhangian University, Khorasan Razavi. The university advertised the course specifically for its teaching staff, identifying me as instructor and setting out a 10-hour training program.
A presentation is not simply a sequence of screens. It is a way of guiding someone through ideas. Prezi is especially interesting in this context because its canvas-oriented presentation model encourages a different perspective on structure, overview and navigation compared with the conventional slide deck. Introducing such a tool in an academic environment means considering not only where each feature is located but also why an educator might want an alternative way to organize an explanation.
The original university-created announcement, published with my October 2020 Instagram post, records the subject, duration and intended audience. My contemporaneous caption announced the start for Monday, 5 Aban, and credited the university for the poster artwork. These surviving materials provide a clear historical record of my role in this training engagement.
This project illustrates my experience in software instruction, professional knowledge transfer and communication across technical and educational contexts. Together with the separate Farhangian PowerPoint workshop, it forms part of a wider record of helping professionals apply digital tools more effectively to their everyday work.
10 — Compact Portfolio Card
Prezi Teaching Workshop — Farhangian University
Educator Professional Development · 10 hours · October 2020
Instructor for a university-advertised course introducing Prezi presentation software to Farhangian University teaching staff. A distinct technical-training engagement focused on tools for communicating and organizing information.
Tags: Prezi · Technical Teaching · University Workshop · Teacher Development · Visual Communication · Presentation Software · Knowledge Transfer
11 — Suggested Instagram / LinkedIn Caption (English)
In October 2020, I was the instructor for a 10-hour Prezi training workshop at Farhangian University, Khorasan Razavi, advertised specifically for its teaching staff.
The project was part of my work in technical instruction: translating a software application's capabilities into a useful professional learning experience. Presentation design is ultimately about communicating relationships between ideas, not just learning which button to click.
The original promotional poster was produced by the university and named me as the course instructor. This is a separate entry from my PowerPoint digital-education workshop.
#FarhangianUniversity #Prezi #TechnicalTeaching #TeacherDevelopment #PresentationSkills #KnowledgeTransfer
12 — Media / SEO Notes
- Cover:
farhangian_prezi_teaching_workshop.png(portfolio illustration; do not present it as a 2020 event photograph). - Original source: the university-designed Persian Prezi poster published in the 24 October 2020 post.
- Image alt text: “Farhangian University Prezi training announcement for faculty, stating a ten-hour course and naming Soroush Neyestani as instructor.”
- Suggested URL slug:
/portfolio/farhangian-university-prezi-workshop-2020 - SEO title:
Prezi Teaching Workshop at Farhangian University | 2020 - Meta description:
A 10-hour Prezi presentation-software workshop for Farhangian University teaching staff in October 2020, taught by Soroush Neyestani. - Institutional-role wording: use “workshop instructor,” not “university professor” or “tenured lecturer.”
- Attribution: the poster was created by the university; the conceptual portfolio cover was created separately.
Editorial classification: Historical completed teaching activity. Source-documented workshop details are kept distinct from general commentary on the educational capabilities of Prezi.