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INTRODUCTION TO PREZI

By:

Mohd Ali Mohd Isa

Prasanna Ramakrisnan

Mohd Ali Mohd Isa/Prasanna©2013

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TOPIC 1 INRODUCTION Introduction to Prezi Prezi is a Web 2.0 based presentation software that enables a non linear presentation of text and visuals that we can zoom in and out of a visual map containing words, links, images, and videos. The zoom feature in canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them. It is very similar to a power point, except we do not make slides. So instead of slides, we create a large map and basically zoom around it while we do our presentation. It produces a visually captivating presentation. We can show a Prezi to others on a computer through our Prezi account, or we can link to them. We can also download the Prezi presentation and embed them in blogs. Prezi Features

Figure 1.1

• Able to zoom in and zoom out to point out and emphasize ideas. • Prezi allows to easily uploading of videos and images from internet and PC. Besides

that we can also add PowerPoint presentations. • A wide range of templates available to create Prezi presentation. • Students can collaborate and work with each together from different locations. • One does not necessarily need internet connection to present their Prezi. The

executable file can be downloaded onto PC and present it offline. • Can add a story line to your Prezi by creating a journey through our slides to create

eye-catching effects.


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TOPIC 2 SIGN UP FOR A NEW PREZI ACCOUNT 1. Go to Prezi website (prezi.com).

Figure 2.1

2. Create Account by selecting

3. There are 3 types of license • The PUBLIC Account allows you to create, save, and download Prezi but they are not able to

be “PRIVATE” and can be seen by anyone on the Prezi site.

• The ENJOY Account allows you to create, save, and download Prezi and they are able to be “PRIVATE” so the presentation can’t be seen by anyone on the Prezi site.

• The PRO Account allows you to create Prezi offline.

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4. Since we are staffs from academic institution, Prezi have a special Student & Teacher license.


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5. Click on the button. 6. The are 2 license to choose from Edu package, the Enjoy and Pro. The difference is that

Enjoy is Free, the Pro license is paid but have the ability to edit Prezi offline.

Figure 2.3

7. Click on the “Enjoy Edu” license.

8. For an educational account, you need to register with an email that have the .edu domain.

Please fill up the form with your staff email address, remember that this email will be your username.

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9. Click on


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10. A popup appear informing you that an email has been sent to your email account for confirmation.

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11. Open up the email account used for registration. You should receive an email from Prezi.

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12. There is a link inside the email for confirmation, select the link and open it up on a web browser to complete the registration. Remember that the link will only be valid for 4 days.

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13. After your email has been confirmed, you are required to fill in a registration form. Fill the form and press Sign Up. Make sure that you tick on the “I agree to the terms of use” checkbox.

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14. After sign up is compeleted you should be taken to your Prezi homepage.

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LOGIN TO PREZI ACCOUNT 1. Go to Prezi website (prezi.com).

2. Select Log in.

Figure 2.10

3. Log in by entering the email and password.

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RESET YOUR PREZI PASSWORD

1. If you forgotten your password, click at Forget your password? and enter the email address.

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2. Click on the link that received in the email and activate the account. If the email not

received in inbox, check in bulk mail or spam folders.

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3. Fill up the new password and click at reset password.

Figure 2.13

4. Once the new password successful created, we can log in with the new password.

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TOPIC 3 CREATE PREZI

1. After login, to create new Prezi presentation, click on the button.

2. A template panel will appear. Prezi comes with ready made templates to help user starts creating Prezi presentation. For this workshop we will use the “Blank” template.

Figure 3.1 3. Choose Blank and click on the button .

4. Prezi will load the chosen template.

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UNDERSTANDING THE PREZI EDITOR The prezi editor is divided into 3 areas:

1. The Menu bar 2. The Path 3. The canvas

THE MENU BAR

This is where all the buttons are situated. Below are the explanation for each of the button inside the menu bar. Present To start the completed or to view the on-going Prezi presentation. Undo Erases the last change done to the document reverting it to an older state. Redo Reverts the effects of the undo action. Save To save the Prezi presentation online. Frames & Arrows Choose the types of frames and arrows needed to be used in Prezi presentation. Insert To attach medias and files to the Prezi presentation. Template To change the current template and set the themes for the Prezi presentation. THE PATH PANEL

Inside PowerPoint, the sequence of presentation is determined by position of the slides, since PowerPoint is a linear presentation tools.

In Prezi though, the presentation is not linear so at the end user have to create a path of which area of the canvas should Prezi go to.


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THE CANVAS In PowerPoint we have slides but in Prezi, we are given a piece of large canvas to work on. On this canvas we will put up or Text, Image and so on for our presentation. TOPIC NAVIGATING AROUND THE CANVAS To navigate around the canvas, click on the canvas and move mouse left or right or up or down, the canvas will move in the same direction as the mouse. To zoom in and zoom out, using your scrollwheel push the wheel up or down. Scrolling up will zoom in and scrolling down will zoom out.


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TOPIC 4 TEXT INSERTING TEXT

1. Click anywhere on the canvas to insert text 2. The text panel will appear

Figure 4.1

3. Click on the button Title on the text panel 4. Type in your course code e.g. ITT 440 5. Press Esc or click anywhere on the canvas to stop inserting text.

EDITING TEXT

1. To edit text, single click on a text 2. The following text panel will appear:

Figure 4.2

3. Click on the Edit Text button 4. To modify style of text to Subtitle/Body, click on the Subtitle/Body button. 5. To make the text smaller/bigger, click on the A/A button. 6. To change colour of the text, click on the blue rectangular box. A colour pallete panel

will appear. 7. Press Esc or click anywhere on the canvas to stop editting text.


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EDITING TEXT (PARAGRAPH)

1. Click anywhere on the canvas to insert text 2. The text panel as in Figure 4.1 will appear. 3. Type in your course name e.g. Network Programming 4. Click on the button > to access the extra options for paragraph.

Figure 4.3

5. 4 extra buttons will appear on the text panel.

6. the bullet point button is to convert paraghraph to bullet point

7. the align button allows to align paragrahp to left, right, center and justify.

8. the indent button allows us to increase/decrease indent of the paragraph. 9. Press Esc or click anywhere on the canvas to stop inserting text.

MOVING TEXT

1. Move the mouse over the text until a blue box appear. 2. Click and drag the text around to move the text. 3. A dotted line will appear to help us align our texts.

Figure 4.4

4. Release the mouse to stop moving the text around.


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EXTRA OPTIONS (PARAGRAPH)

1. Click anywhere on the canvas to insert text. 2. Choose style body 3. Enter your name, date and location.

Figure 4.5

4. If the paraghraph entered is too long, to modify the width of the text box click and

drag the button so that the text box can be increase or decrease.

5. When a new line is created, a tab button will appear. The tab button indicates the length of the of paragraph. This tab button can also be used to reoder the paragraph.

6. Press Esc or click anywhere on the canvas to stop editting text.


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TOPIC 5 FRAMES Frames are use in Prezi to group elements so that we can zoom in and focus on the elements. INSERTING FRAMES

1. To insert frames click on the button 2. The frames and arrow panel will appear.

Figure 5.1

3. There are 4 frames available, bracket, circle rectangular and invisible frame.

4. Clik on , a default bracket frame will appear. 5. Click on the bracket frame and drag it so that it encompass the text on the canvas.

Figure 5.2

6. Move the mouse over the frames until a blue outline appear, click and drag the

frames, all the content inside the frame will move as well. 7. Move the mouse outside the frame to stop moving the frame.


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INSERT INVISIBLE FRAMES There are times when we would like to create frames but the outline of the frame is hidden. In order to do this, we need to create invisible frame.

1. To insert invisible frames click on the button 2. The frames and arrow panel will appear.

Figure 5.1

3. Clik on , the mouse pointer will change to the following

pointer

4. Draw a box over both the course and course name, to create an invisible frame.

5. A grey box will appear covering both course code and course name. 6. This grey box will disappear in presentation mode.


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TOPIC 6 INSERTING IMAGES, VIDEO, FILE AND OTHER ELEMENT INSERTING IMAGES (FROM LOCAL COMPUTER)

1. To insert image, click on the button. 2. The following menu will appear:

Figure 6.1

3. Click on the button. 4. The following panel will appear:

Figure 6.2

5. To insert images from local computer, click on the button. 6. Select on the desired file, and click Open 7. The image will be uploaded to the Prezi server, during this time it will show progress

bar of the uploaded image. 8. Once the image is uploaded, the image will appear inside the prezi.


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INSERTING IMAGES (FROM GOOGLE IMAGES)


Figure 6.1


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5. To insert images from Google Images, enter description of the image that you would

like to search in the search box, and click on the button. e.g. logo UiTM 6. Prezi will run query at Google Images and display the resulting images below the

query box.

Figure 6.3


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7. To browse through the resulting images, click the up and down arrow. Once the

desired image have been found, click on the button. 8. The image will be uploaded to the Prezi server, during this time it will show progress

bar of the uploaded image. 9. Once the image is uploaded, the image will appear inside the prezi.

RESIZE IMAGE

1. Move mouse over the image until a blue outline appear. 2. Click on the image.

Figure 6.4

3. There are 2 ways to rezize an image.

a. First method:

To increase the size of the image, click on the button on the button.

To decrease the size of the image, click on the button on the button.

b. Second method:

To increase the size of the image, click on the at the four corner of the box, and drag outward.

To decrease the size of the image, click on the at the four corner of the box, and drag inward.


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MOVE IMAGE

a. First method

1. Move mouse over the image until a blue outline appear. 2. Click on the image and drag the image to the desired location. 3. Release mouse to leave image into place.

b. Second method

1. Mouse mouse over the image until a blue outline appear.

2. Click on the image until the button appear. 3. Click on the button to move the image. 4. Release mouse to leave image into place.

ROTATE IMAGE

1. Move mouse over the image until a blue outline appear. 2. Click on the image, you will see a thick blue outline.

3. Move mouse to the end of the box , until a circle appear

4. Click on the circle, and move the mouse left and right to rotate the image. CROP IMAGE

1. Move mouse over the image until a blue outline appear. 2. Click on the image, you will see a thick blue outline. 3. Click on the button. The image will have a dotted outline.

4. Drag the corner of the image to crop the image. Greyed area of the image will be crop out from the image.

5. Click anywhere outside the image to confirm the changes.


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TOPIC 7 INSERT A SYMBOL OR SHAPE/ DIAGRAM INSERT A SYMBOL


Figure 7.1


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5. Click on the desired symbol or shape and click . e.g paper with text. 6. The selected shape will appear on the canvas.

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INSERT A DIAGRAM


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5. Choose Linear Process 3 6. The chosen diagram will appear on the canvas.

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EDIT A DIAGRAM

1. To add any text on the diagram, click on the “Click to add text”

Figure 7.7

2. Change the text so that it becomes Learning Outcome 1:

Figure 7.8

3. New text can also be added by clicking area inside the circle. 4. Click inside the circile, the text panel will appear. 5. Add the text “This is the text for learning outcome 1”.

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INSERT A YOUTUBE VIDEO

1. To insert YouTube, click on the button. 2. The following menu will appear:

Figure 7.10


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5. Since we are not allowed to access YouTube, entered the following URL:

http://i-learn.uitm.edu.my/v2/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/raya.flv

6. Click . 7. The video will be linked and will appear on the canvas.

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INSERT BACKGROUND MUSIC

1. To insert YouTube, click on the button.

2. The following menu will appear:

Figure 7.13

3. Click on the button.

4. The file explorer panel will appear, click on the desired music and click open.

5. The music will be uploaded to the server and added to the prezi.

6. To listen to the background music, click on button.


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INSERT FROM FILES

1. To insert YouTube, click on the button.

2. The following menu will appear:

Figure 7.14

3. Click on the button.

4. Choose a pdf file, and click on Open.

5. Prezi will upload the file onto the server, once completed. The pdf file will be shown

on the canvas.

Figure 7.15

6. Note that Prezi will import ALL pages from the pdf file hence it is best not to used file with large number of pages.

7. Prezi support the import of most Video, Images and Sound file. Other than that, pdf and ppt file can also be imported.

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