Prezi in the Classroom

Why Prezi?

PREZI allows you to create unbelievably dynamic presentations, where you can zoom in and out across a large poster, create motion paths, add text, embed images and video files or YouTube videos…

Prezi by nature is holistic while power point is linear by nature

Sign up for a Prezi Account

Go to http://prezi.com

Click on Sign Up Now

Scroll down until you see this:

Click on Get under the Edu Enjoy license

Sign up for a Prezi Account

Put in your email address(use your school address) and click on Continue

Fill out the form with school name, city (Norcross), and school website address

Confirm you are a student or teacher at the school and click Submit

You will receive a confirmation email that you will need to go to and click the link they give you to complete your registration.

As we move forward . . .

You are going to “play” with the tools I show you.

Open a new browser window

Log into your Prezi account

You may need to put your cursor over by the top left side of the window. If you see the Prezi tools appear, click on the blue arrow to the top left of the word “Show.”

Prezi Tools – Colors and Themes

Colors & Themes – allows you to choose a predefined theme or use the theme wizard to create your customized theme

Time to PlayColors & Themes

Prezi Tools - Write

Write – Allows you to put text boxes on your Prezi in whatever location you wish.

Click on Write

Click anywhere you wish to put your text box

Start typing

Above the text box you will see different alignment choices as well as a bullet icon.

Below the text box, you can choose the text theme you want to use.

Prezi Tools – Zebra Tool

Zebra tool – Appears when you click on text

Move - center of the zebra

Size and scale - inner ring of the zebra

Rotate objects of any kind - outer ring of the zebra

Prezi Tools

Add a Hyperlink

Click on Write – click on prezi to add a text box

Copy & Paste a URL – http not https

Click on Save

Click on Exit

Click on Edit

Time to PlayWrite & Zebra Tool

Prezi Tools - Path

Path - With the Path tool, you can simply go through your presentation just by clicking Next.

Zoom out until you can see multiple objects you want to show

Choose Path on the Bubble Menu

Click on your objects in the order you want to present them

Drag path numbered circles off to the background to remove them 

Prezi Tools Path – continued

Drag the small path circles between two steps to insert an object

Drag the large numbered circle onto other objects to swap them into the Path

Choose Capture View to capture current view and add it to the path

Click Show in the Menu, and use the bottom right arrows to go through your Path

The Delete All button deletes the whole Path, and all the path steps.

Time to PlayPath Tool

Prezi Tools - Frame

Frame – The best presentations use frames in Prezi to organize information in groups.

When related information is grouped together, you can avoid excessive panning in your prezi - which often results in motion sickness for your audience.

Choose Frame in the Bubble Menu (top left)

Prezi Tools - Frame

Choose a Frame type

Start drawing a Frame around your objects

Hold down SHIFT while drawing to create 4:3, projector-friendly aspect ratios

You can choose 'Capture View' in the Path menu, to generate a frame that fills your actual view. This will add a path step as well.

Time to PlayFrame Tool

Prezi Tools - Insert

Insert - Image

Choose Insert/Load File

Select the image from your computer.

Then use the Zebra to arrange it.

Prezi Tools - Insert

Insert Media – Video

You can insert the following video file formats to Prezi:

FLV, F4V, AVI, MOV, WMV, F4V, MPG, MPEG, MP4, M4V, 3GP

How it works: Prezi has a built-in, standalone video player for these video formats. After uploading a video, you can control the playback using a navigation bar when presenting manually. You can add videos directly to the path. In this case, videos will start automatically as you reach them in your presentation, and will stop as you move along on the path.

Prezi Tools - Media

Insert Media – Video

Click Insert/Load file in the editor, or simply hit the 'L' keyboard shortcut.

Choose a video file from your computer

Insert the file into prezi, just as you insert any image file. Once the video is selected in Write mode, you can use the Zebra tool to arrange it or simply drag and move with your mouse.

Prezi Tools - Media

Insert Media – YouTube Video

Paste the URL of a YouTube video to the text field it gives you (this is not the YouTube embed code).

Hit OK. Once the video is selected in Write mode, you can use the Zebra tool to arrange it, or simply drag and move with your mouse.

File size limit for video uploads is 50 mb

Time to PlayInsert Media

Prezi Tools

Insert Files

PDF

Excel

Power point

Prezi Tools – Edit Mode

Edit Mode

is designed for creating, manipulating your prezi. There is a grid in the background.

Prezi starts up in Edit mode

Prezi doesn't zoom around when you click on objects, so you don't get lost while writing or moving your objects

use the zoom buttons, or scroll your mouse to zoom

Prezi Tools

Show Mode

is designed for presenting and for fast navigation to small / huge things

there is no grid, you get a clean look, and all the menus will auto-hide

You can click on objects to zoom to them, and click the background to zoom out 

Prezi Resources

Learn - http://prezi.com/learn/

Manual - http://prezi.com/learn/manual/

10 Tips to Help Master Prezi - http://tippingpointlabs.com/2010/11/22/10-tips-to-help-master-prezi/

Prezi Killed Power point – Article

http://e-blahblah.com/index.php/2010/01/prezi-killed-powerpoint-how-to-integrate-prezi-in-the-classroom/