An alternative to PowerPoints

This came up in a discussion of powerpoints, which one of the counties around here uses for EVERYTHING. First, how to make powerpoints stand out: vary the fonts and background color, and keep the verbage on the slides very simple.

Then, someone told us about Prezi. Here is an example of what you can do with Prezi.

[To see full screen and autoplay (it will be too fast to read, but it will give you a feel), take your cursor to the right side, bottom. Hitting the "play" arrow will pull one page at a time.]

Teachers can get it free.

I cannot see doing this for everything, but this would be an awesome intro to a class.