- Part 1 of 5: Creating Your Account
- Visit the Prezi website. The bulk of your work with
Prezi will occur in the online editor. Prezis are saved to the cloud and
can be accessed anywhere that has an internet connection. There are
several options to pick from when joining prezi:
- Download the app. If
you want to share your Prezi with a small audience, you can use the
iPad to make it more interactive for the viewer. You can download the
Prezi app for your iPad and iPhone. The app is free and lets you access
your Prezi from anywhere that your device has internet access.
- Access the Prezi editor. Once you have an account, you can log in to the Prezi website and begin creating your presentation. Click the Create link at the top of the Prezi homepage. Under “Your Prezis” click the “+New Prezi” button. This will start the editor
- Part 2 of 5: Planning the Presentation
- Sketch out your concept.
The underlying functionality of Prezi means that you do not have to
think in linear slides as you would PowerPoint. You are free to move the
frame around your presentation landscape however you feel is best. This
means, however, that a Prezi that is not planned properly from the
beginning can quickly become a jumbled mess with no sense of direction.
- Set the foundations with your main points.
Use the main points of your presentation as the anchors for the path
your Prezi will take. Think of these main points as “focal” points; you
will be focusing on these and using the surrounding landscape to build
on them frame by frame.
- Think of your Prezi in terms of the "path".
The path is how the presentation transitions from frame to frame.
Instead of going in a linear motion, the path can be set in any order,
and the "camera" will move around the presentation as it follow the
path.
- Keep your paths steady. When you are planning out
your Prezi, think about how you will be moving the camera over your
landscape. Because Prezi allows for full zooming and rotations, there is
a temptation to change the perspective often during a presentation.
This can lead to motion sickness in the viewer, and distracts from the
content of the presentation.
- Start big. Because you have an essentially limitless canvas, make your focal points big to begin with. Then, as you add more details, you can add smaller objects and use small amounts of zoom to focus on them.
- Part 3 of 5: Making the Presentation
- Use small text to great effect.
If you want to surprise the audience with a fact or image, make it very
small. This will make it illegible until the object is in focus. If the
text is small enough, the audience won’t even see it coming.
- Select your theme. When
you first create your new Prezi, you will be asked to choose a template.
The template of your Prezi defines how the text, colors and objects
will all interact on the landscape. You can pick between 2D and 3D
template. 2D themes are flat and the camera moves across the canvas. 3D
themes allow you to zoom in and out of the background.
- Start placing your objects. Be sure to begin with the
main points of your presentation. These will be the centerpieces of
each section. You can add text, images, and order object anywhere on the canvas. Continue to refer to your plan as you begin laying out the Prezi on the screen.
- anipulate your objects. Once you have an object on
the canvas, click on it to open the Transformation Tool. The object will
be highlighted by a box surrounded by tools to modify theobject.
- Make sure your images are high resolution.
If you are going to be focusing on images in your Prezi, remember that
they will take up the entire screen when zoomed in on. This means that
lower quality images that look good as a part of a webpage will look
grainy when they are scaled up to fit the screen
- Leave space around your objects. If you leave a fair
amount of white space around your objects, Prezi will be able to easily
focus on them when the camera zooms in. This will help make the text or
image stand out to the audience.
- Use frames to create focus. Frames come in two forms
in Prezi: visible and invisible. Visible frames highlight the object on
the screen, and include a circle, brackets, and a filled oblong shape.
Invisible frames allow you to define objects and sets of objects as the
focus. Both types of frames will let you control how much zoom and
object receives.
- Use frames to highlight a portion of text. If you
have a paragraph of text in one frame, and want to highlight a key
segment of it, create a frame around the text that you want to
highlight. Create a path to it, and the camera will zoom in on just the
framed text. This is useful for noting key figures or powerful phrases
in a block of text.
- Create a uniform style. Prezi doesn’t use font sizes,
which can make it difficult to get headings and paragraphs to feel
uniform. In order to match size, select the text that you need to
resize. As you move the mouse to change the size of the text, look at
the text that you are trying to match it to. Once the two are the same,
the text that you don’t have selected will become darker, signifying
that the two are the same size.
- View your Prezi while zoomed out. A good Prezi will
be able to be understood when the presentation is zoomed all the way
out. This means that your key points should be large enough to be read
when the camera is pulled back. They should also be aligned in a way
that makes logical sense.
- Keep your structure standardized. If you are using specific styles of frames to highlight your important ideas, stick to using those throughout your entire presentation. The same goes for colored text and other stylistic objects. A sense of design unity throughout the presentation will leave a stronger lasting impression and convey information more clearly.
- Part 4 of 5: Creating a Path
- Open the Path editor. In the Edit screen, click the
“Edit Path” button on the left side of the workspace. This will allow
you to start creating your path. Click on your first object, and then
simply click on each consecutive object in the order that you want to
present them.
- Rearrange your path. If
you need to adjust the path, simply click and drag a path point from one
object to another. If you want to add a step between points, click the
small plus sign icon next to a step and drag it to an object. This will
create a new stop in the path.
- Finalize your path at the end of your project.
Don’t get too hung up on your pathing while you are adjusting your
layout. Get the layout solid first, and then go through and set your
final path. This will make organizing your content much easier.
- Part 5 of 5: Presenting Your Prezi
- Practice your presentation.
Before presenting your Prezi, run through it a few times to make sure
that it flows well. Practice your timing for moving between frames.
Ensure that everything receives the correct focus and that your
transitions are not too jarring.
- Navigate the path. When
you are presenting, clicking Next will take you to the next stop on the
path. If you want to zoom out, scroll around, or click on other parts of
the presentation, all you need to do is click the Next button to return
to the path.
- Take your time. Don’t rush through the frames during
your presentation. Allow the audience time to process the information,
and to settle from the previous transition. If you go too fast, the
transitions will become overbearing.
- Let the audience ask questions. Because Prezi is not composed of slides, it’s very easy to move around the presentation. Use this ability to clarify audience questions and to easily backtrack to missed information. Zoom out to quickly find sections of your presentation that relate to the questions being asked.
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