Last week I heard about this cool presentation app: Prezi. The website says, “Create astonishing presentations live and on the web.” The demo made it look easy-peasy to use.
I played around a bit and then happily forked over $159 for the one-year Pro license. This lets me create my own Prezis online or from my desktop.
Here’s my first rough creation…
Before you get all excited, let me briefly explain how I did this, because it wasn’t ALL done with Prezi.
- I made my Prezi — that’s the words and images you see, and the “path” you travel along the presentation.
- I used Camtasia to record the screen as I moved through the Prezi, capturing my voice narration at the same time.
- I used Audacity to edit a royalty-free music track that I wanted to play in the background. (Yeah, I know it’s a little too loud. I could fix that…)
- I opened Camtasia again and dropped in the music track, then I published it to Screencast.com as a Flash video.
- I pasted the appropriate HTML code from Screencast so you could see the results here.
I’ve only begun to explore what you can do with Prezi, and I’m really stoked about it. What do you think so far?
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Fantastic job, Shelley! Wonderfully creative and informative to boot.
Thanks, Mark! I’m eager to do more with Prezi and see how it might turn a drab webinar into a fab webinar…
I’m digging it Shelley! I’m saving your site to my favorites!~
I’m honored, Hollie! Glad you could stop in… :)
Thanks for the tip. We’re definitely going to look into this!
Found your post on a Quora message board. Definitely going to try prezi.
I think Prezi can be useful in some cases, but for a very thought-provoking argument AGAINST it, see http://philpresents.com/2011/08/30/two-reasons-i-dont-recommend-prezi – including the replies below the post.
Love this statement from Phil’s post, Craig…
The main challenge of the Presentation 2.0 revolution is not to banish bullet points to the dustbin of history: it is to reestablish the connection between the speaker and the audience, while using the best modern techniques to enhance that communication.
So true!
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