How to Create Presentations Using Prezi

How to Create Presentations using Prezi

Author: Yee Jiong Hwa

Version: 10-Sep-2011

Course aims

• Prezi is a web-based presentation applicationand storytelling tool that uses a single canvas instead of traditional slides. Text, images, video and other presentation objects are placed on the infinite canvas and grouped together in frames. The canvas allows users to create non-linear presentations, where they can zoom in and out of a visual map. A path through different objects and frames can be defined, representing the order of the information to be presented. The presentation can be developed in a browser window, and then downloaded so that an internet connection is not needed when showing the presentation.

Course goals

• By the end of this course, participants should be able to use Prezi to:

• Create nice presentations

• See all screens from www.prezi.com

• Create a project based on what they have learned

Course Content

• Getting started – How can I get prezi?

• The Prezi environment – Navigation

• Create, Edit and Insert files

• Build a Presentation

• Share and Manage

How can I get Prezi?

• http://prezi.com

• Products

– [public] : Set up a free Prezi account and edit ONLINE

– [enjoy] : better access control and more storage space

– [pro] : Prezi Desktop (Mac / Windows)

GETTING STARTED WITH ONLINE PREZI

Sign In to Create online Prezi

Click to create.

Entering Title and Description

Spinning Zebra

A brief tutorial.

Try completing it.

A blank canvas

Click on the centre of this text and a Zebra will appear.

Click on the centre of Zebra and press “Del”

PREZI NAVIGATION

Toggling between Edit & Show mode

spacebar

“Show” mode “Edit” mode

Change to Edit and Show mode display

Show has been relocated here.

BUBBLE MENU

Bubble menu

Bubble menu is the set of blue bubbles in the top left corner of the Prezi editing canvas. It contains most of the tools you need to create a prezi.

List of keyboard shortcuts for the Bubble Menu Space: toggle between show and edit I: insert menu S: Shapes menu F: Frames menu P: Path menu

Parent Menus : Larger Circle

WORKING WITH CONTROLS

Controls

“30,000 feet view”

Determines zoom level.

“Undo” & “Redo” respectively.

Print as “multi-page PDF”.

Exits Prezi canvas.

Virtual meeting online.

Appears only in SHOW mode. Fullscreen, Prev and Next

respectively,.

When object is selected, a Zebra

will appear.

USING THE ZEBRA

Zebra components

Single-click For “Edit”

Single-click to Zoom In.

Single-click to Zoom Out.

Click+Drag in clockwise or anti-clockwise to

rotate object.

Acts the same as “+” and “-”. Click+Drag away from center

for “+” Click-Drag to centre for “-”

Right-click a Zebra will display a menu for command selection

Note: Elements can be placed on top of one another using

these 4 commands.

These 4 are standard editing

commands.

WORKING WITH FRAMES

Use of Frames and Types

Four types of frames, i.e.

- brackets, circle, rectangle and hidden

Frames provide “big” picture.

Groups objects to facilitate moving and scaling.

Sample Frames

Rectangle frame

Circle frame

Hidden frame

Bracket frame

Move/scale/rotate frames

1. Moving/scaling/rotating the frame will move/scale/rotate its contents together.

2. To remove an object from a frame, drag the object out of the frame at any time.

3. Hold Alt while dragging or clicking on a frame to move, scale or rotate it separately.

4. Double-clicking on the frame will show the four control points. Change the size of the frame by dragging the control points.

Move/scale/rotate frames

Hold “ALT” and click on circular frame. Notice the “orange” zebra. It can be moved separately now.

Simple click on frame. Notice the blue Zebra. The whole ‘group’ may be moved, scaled, rotated now.

Selecting multiple elements without using frame

• Click and Drag from upper let corner to lower left corner

• Release the mouse

• Elements enclosed should be grouped and a Zebra should appear

• Press “Del” key to delete all selected elements

TEXT ENTRY

Text entry

Click anywhere on canvas and start entering 2 lines of text.

Hit “Return” key to move to

next line. Three typefaces

provided.

Text alignment and bulleting functions.

Click “Ok” to close text box.

INSERT EXTERNAL OBJECTS AND SHAPES

Insert Images

Insert Files

Insert YouTube

Insert Shapes

INSERT DRAWINGS

12 Supported Drawings

COLORS / FONTS AND THEME

Colors / Fonts and Theme Wizard

Provides colors and theme controls over the Prezi.

Built-in pre-defined themes.

Theme Wizard : Manual Mode Or use a RGB Color Chart.

http://www.tayloredmktg.com/rgb/#PA

Or use built-in themes.

PATHS

Working with Path

In between free nodes may be dragged to

objects to form a liner path.

Removes all path defined.

Use this to allow display to determine placement of

path node.

A wrong path node may be dragged out

and released on empty canvas.

Editing Paths

• To remove

– Click+Drag a Numbered Path node out of the element it is pointing to

• To insert a Path

– Click+Drag an Un-numbered Free Path node to the element you wish to insert

ONLINE PREZI

Online Prezi

View Together

Edit Together : Viewing

Edit Together: Editing

Download

Saves a Copy in ZIP format

Unzip into FLASH file and run on standalone PC or Mac.

(provided there is no link to resources on internet)

DOWNLOADING ONLINE PREZI FOR OFFLINE PRESENTATION

Taking a Prezi offline

Click this.

Taking a Prezi offline

Taking a Prezi offline

Taking a Prezi offline Right-click file.

Taking a Prezi offline

Double-click to run the Prezi.

Note: Offline Prezi is always in Show mode. It cannot be

edited.

PREZIFYING A POWERPOINT FILE

Video on “Prezifying” Powerpoint slides

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayA4niOmfJ8&feature=player_embedded

Prezifying a PowerPoint file

• Export an existing copy of PowerPoint file into multi-page PDF.

• Use Insert File on Bubble Menu to import PDF.

• Select local file (PDF).

• Organise imported PDFs using frames.

• Add titles (text objects) to collections of frames.

• Add paths.

CREATING HANDOUTS WITH PREZI

Create handouts: print your online prezi

• Use the “Print” option in the middle of the editor screen (only in EDIT mode) to create handouts for your audience.

• When you click Print, your prezi will be converted to a PDF document, where every path step will be one document page. The exported PDF will also include an overview page of your whole prezi.

F.A.Q

• How many elements can a free Prezi account canvas hold? – Ans: Limited by overall storage space of 100MB per free Prezi account.

• Can hidden frames be used for grouping? – No. Only bracket, circle, and rectangular frames can group objects.

• Do I need internet acccess when I have Youtube elements in my Prezi? – Ans: Yes. Youtube insertion is merely a link. The contents can only stream in when internet

acccess is available.

• How many concurrent editors is supported? – Ans: Editing can support up to 10. I think 3-4 at a time co-editing is bearable.

• My bubble menu disappears in online Prezi? – Ans: Exit (but save) the work. At the “Your Prezi”, edit the Prezi again. The bubble menu

should appear.

• How to delete multiple elements? – Ans: Hold Shift key and click at top left corner and drag to bottom right corner.

• How to arrange the positions of elements with reference to one another? – Ans: Right-click on Zebra of an element. The “Send to Back”, “Send Backward”, “Bring to Front”

and “Bring Forward” allows for element placement.

Trademarks

• Prezi logo and name is a registered trademark of Prezi.com

Disclaimer

• Upgrades are frequent in Prezi and screen and function layouts may change over. Do verify at http://prezi.com

THE END