Sunday, November 14, 2010

Assignment 6 - Enjoy Prezi, Enjoy presentation!

Description of Assignment 6:
     Create presentation with Prezi.





Prezi is “a web-based presentation tool using a map layout and zooming to show contextual relationships which addresses some of the shortcomings of Microsoft PowerPoint“.


Compared with PowerPoint, Prezi has many advantages for presentation. When creating the presentation with Prezi, I have fully gained the advantages of Prezi.

Point 1: Prezi is much freer.
     With a ligel account, you can sign in Prezi to create your featured presentation. The platform of Prezi    provides users a freer place for creating the presentation. When creating your presentation, you do not need to consider where to put different slides, like in PPT; you do not need to care much about the fonts or the colors; you do not need to puzzle which template is much better for the presentation. Working on the platform of Prezi, you just need to concentrate on the content of your presentation!

Point 2: Prezi is easier to operate.
      Some users of PowerPoint may face a problem, that is how could we make our presentation in PPT looks more professional? In PowerPoint, you have to choose the template, add slide, adjust the order of slides, make effect for the emphasis... some many things that need to be mastered for a professional presentation. However, in Prezi, no matter you are a niche or a nova, you can create a professional presentation. Prezi has prepared everything for you!
      Just type what you want to present on the platform,  (if you have to give a presentation, I think typing is a thing that should master before using Prezi...), and highlight the word or draw shape on words that you need to make emphasis on by the highlighting tool and drawing on the left-right corner of Prezi platform. Besides, you can easily upload video to your Prezi presentation by adding the embedded code of the video. (Usually, a YouTube video would be much easier to upload for its MP4 format, which is also a thing that I have learnt from IT644).
  
Point 3: Prezi is logical-clear.
     After preparing all the contents on the Prezi platform, the next important step is to make your content logically. In PowerPoint, the common thing we do to show the logic of all the slides is setting the slide order. So, you have to take care of the order very carefully when you setting slides. However, in Prezi, the order is a very simple thing. When everything is on the screen, you just choose "path" to set the showing order of your presentation by clicking on the slides one by one, according to your own logic of the presentation.
     If there is some slide were missed when you clicking, no need to feel frustrated, and do not need to go back. What you have to do is only to drag the number showing on your path to the missed slide, the number will adjust to the new order automatically!

Point 4: Prezi is a working-group.
      There is another feature that attracts me in Prezi, that is the group-working. You can invite any other person to join your edition of Prezi work. Actually, in IT 740, we have used Prezi group-working to create a presentation. Different person could working togther in a same presentation, but without disturbing each other. And, you can also see who is working together on the screen. There would be a little body showing the name of your partner. Just like in a real working office, seperating working but good coopration!

Point 5: Prezi is portable.
       Different from PowerPoint, Prezi could be downloaded as a flash file, which solves the problem for the computers that do not installed relative software. You can download your Prezi file, and save it to your jumpdrive. When you need to present, just copy the file to the computer, you can give your perfect presentation!


Enjoy Prezi, Enjoy your Presenation!

1 comment:

  1. Well done! Very clean with smooth transitions. I liked it and could even watch it without any trouble.

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