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Using Prezi for Conference Presentations
What can I do with it?
For free!
To use or not to use?
Is it suitable for academic presentations?
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Working with Prezi
Insert images and videos
Group things together
Plot a path through your prezi
Select colours and change theme
Admire your handiwork!
Framing
Mapping relationships
The park is a good place to relax
The university would like to expand the number of bodies it holds...
The Library is for studying
Add images
Or videos
Size matters!
Big
Bigger
Huge
tiny
go into detail
take a close up
Show the big picture
Enumerate your points
One by one
In a list
Use pictures to show things
Or hide things!
Don't overdo the tricks
It's easy to put in pointless effects
...and make
people
feel
disorientated!
Sparing use is more effective
Using Prezi for conference presentations
A Graduate School Media Zoo Workshop
- Learn about Prezi and how to use it
- Discuss the pros/cons of using Prezi
- Make your own Prezi
Plan for this session...
Demonstration of Prezi
Critique of use for academic conferences
How to use it
Guided experimentation
prezi.com
www.le.ac.uk/gsmz
Emma Kimberley
In a nutshell
The Basics
1. Make a mindmap
- presentations
- mindmap
- visual map
- narrative/storytelling
- zooming
- 'non-linear'
- freemium
2. Plot a course through it
3. Show it to people
Tips and tricks
Top tools for learning
- 28th in 2009
- 12th in 2010
- 8th so far in 2011
Getting an account
and growing
Ideas
keep growing
Or show them all together
- Make presentations
- Add images/videos/files
- Store in private or public
- Present online or offline
- Download
- Show on your iPad
- Use your own logo
With educational licence
Collaborate
- Work together in real time
- Show your Prezi remotely
- Up to 10 people in one Prezi
For $59
- Desktop version
- Enhanced support
- More storage
Not so good for:
Time
Practicalities
Quicker to use ppt
Quicker to make changes
Printing
Making changes
Better than powerpoint for:
- Making an impact
- Flexibility
- Including images/video
- Encouraging originality
- Mapping content relationships
- Collaborating
- Involving the audience
- Promoting discussion
Structure
Adding/deleting slides
ppt is 'safe'
Complex material is more difficult to control
A good match?
Less well suited...
Nervous speakers
Use frames to see text or images in one view
People with no time
Innovative presenters
'Traditional' conference presenters
Want to make it visually stimulating
Willing to put effort into design
For conferences
- Accept that if your talk is linear, Prezi also has to be
- Develop a clear narrative
- Make it work for you
- Use its potential for answering questions
Get started
- Create a prezi
- Experiment with editing
- Have a prezi meeting with your neighbour(s) or someone across the room
PDFs
http://www.slideshare.net/gradschoolmediazoo/things-to-do-on-prezi
jpegs
Next steps
http://www.slideshare.net/thewikiman/how-to-use-prezi-and-win
Grouping and layering
Step-by-step tutorial
Prezi for ipad