Creating Dynamic Presentations with Prezi

Last week I led a hands-on workshop for the Faculty Summer Institute at the University of Illinois on how to create a presentation in Prezi. If you have never heard of Prezi, think of it as an alternative to PowerPoint that is not only free, but offers a lot of viewing and display options that PowerPoint doesn’t.

View the “slides” from this workshop here:

Creating Dynamic Presentations With Prezi on Prezi

One comment, now that I have worked with Prezi’s embed feature: the publicly viewable step-by-step version of the presentation (what you see here) doesn’t allow for zooming in on certain text in the same way as in the live presentation mode. When I was presenting from my online account I could zoom in on smaller text that wasn’t already included in the “path” (the order in which information is shown in the slides”). That meant I could include the photo credits in a tiny font under the photos and zoom in on them when necessary. In the embedded version, you can see these citations very briefly in passing from one slide to another, but you can’t select that text like it’s possible to do in the presentation mode.

While this would be a disadvantage to Prezi, the application has been evolving in the past year since it was first released. There are still a few bugs. However, it’s come a long way since I last worked with it in December 2009. There are enough clever features to it that I am optimistic that it will continue to get better and better in the next year.

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