MiT First Year - Intro to Prezi
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WORKSHOP OUTLINE
Contents
What is Prezi? Why use it?
- Free and versatile online presentation software
- Has different features and capabilities than PowerPoint
- May be accessed from online or as a document saved to your computer
Creating a Prezi account
- Use your school email address to sign up for a free educational account
Tour of the Prezi website: prezi.com
- Your prezis: starting point for creating a prezi and where you may view all the prezis you have made
- Learn & Support: how-to instructional videos from basic to advanced, manual and faq
- Explore: browse through the prezi gallery for inspiration or copy a “reusable” prezi to use elements from it in your own prezi
Creating and Editing a Basic Prezi
- Working with a blank canvas or customizable template
- Working with frames/placeholders
- Adding and editing text
- Inserting images, video and URLs (being mindful of elements that require connection to Internet)
- Manual navigation versus autoplay
- Online versus off-line
- Creating a portable prezi (downloading/saving a non-editable version)
Presentation Tips
PRESENTATION SCRIPT VERSUS PRESENTATION CONTENT
- Keep content relevant, organized, and focused to the audience you are presenting to
- Avoid reading directly from the presentation you are showing - use presentation content as a guide/outline/series of points through which to introduce key items/topics/talking points to elaborate on through the oral component of your presentation
VISUAL PRESENTATION
- Content should be the "star"of the presentation
- Avoid overwhelming an audience with text- or image-heavy frames
- Refrain from incorporating too much motion or animated transitions that move too quickly or distract from the content
- Use of scale or sizing to emphasis different points or elements
Resources
- Prezi website
- Prezi page: The Basics
- Lynda.com Video Tutorials -- see tutorial: “Up and Running with Prezi”
- How to Embed a Prezi into WordPress
