What’s Prezi?
Prezi.com is an online presentation application that completely changes the presentation experience for both the author and viewer. Prezi allows the ideas in presentations to be focused in upon or out. From point to point, the concepts presented swirl onto the screen. The points made are so effective and visually the presentations end up being much more appealing.
While at first the creation of a presentation seems awkward, once you become acquainted with the tool bar’s concepts, Prezi is pretty easy to use. In fact it took only an hour to create this simple Prezi about Twitter. While this Prezi created by David S. Gran from Shanghai American School is much more elaborate, you can see how effective using Prezi is in depicting the preparation of sponsoring a film festival within a school community.
The menu bar is a series of round circles. By clicking on the circle, you are then in that mode. It’s important to understand your main points first before proceeding. Once all your content is present, by clicking on the “Path” circle, you can create the order of your presentation. Once you’re finished your very own “Prezi,” receives an url address for you to present online.
This online application will totally enhance any presentation you need to give. Give Prezi.com a shot!!
Dear Librarian,
Thanks for the shout out, and nice job on your Prezi as well! I’m really fascinated by the possibilities of this new presentation software, because its a brilliant hybrid of traditional presentations (i.e. Powerpoint) and mind mapping software (i.e. inspiration). This new combination allows you to organize your ideas in a much more intuitive way- and present them in a more intuitive way.
How you organize your presentation also provides information for your viewers about how the ideas are linked. Is one slide next to the one that comes after it, is it on top, or below…. or is it embedded in the one that comes before it? If its embedded, is it the same kind of frame or different, if its smaller- how much smaller?
These deceptively simple choices provide a huge amount of context for how the information your presenting relates to each other.
I’m also very intrigued by what Scott McCloud has to say about Prezi, as it ties into his concept of an Infinite Canvas.