MiT First Year - Intro to Prezi

WORKSHOP OUTLINE

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)

Managing and Presenting Prezis: How to Publish and Share

• 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