how to make a prezi presentation

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents...........................................................................................................2

Creating Presentations with Prezi – Signing Up.............................................................3

Creating Presentations with Prezi – Getting Started.....................................................6

Creating Presentations with Prezi – The Title Page.......................................................8

Creating Presentations with Prezi – Adding and altering an Image ............................10

Creating Presentations with Prezi – Adding Video ......................................................14

Creating Presentations with Prezi – Adding Text Slide................................................18

Creating Presentations with Prezi – Adding Frames....................................................20

Creating Presentations with Prezi – Making Paths to link the slides ..........................22

Creating Presentations with Prezi – Downloading the Prezi for playing.....................25

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Creating Presentations with Prezi – Signing Up

1. Find prezi at www.prezi.com.

2. You will need to create a username and password by clicking Sign Up:

3. Select Student/teacher lincesne options:

4. Then select the Free option:

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5. Enter your school e-mail address and press the Continue button

6. Fill out the information about the school and press Continue

7. You will be sent a confirmation e-mail address:

8. Click on the link or paste it into your browser:

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9. You will be taken to a completion page.

10. Complete the details and save it with the password you normally use. You may not

want to state your full first name:

11. Tick the I agree Terms and Conditions box and press Register and Continue:

12. Congratulations you have created a Prezi account:

13. The next time you go to Prezi simply type in your Email address and password:

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Creating Presentations with Prezi – Getting Started

1. Go to www.prezi.com and sign in using your username and password

2. You are taken to your My tab where your Prezis will be stored:

3. Enter a Title and Description for your prezi eg:

4. Next choose a layout style and press Create

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5. A screen similar to below opens:

6. Click the Open Me box to reveal other options (which you will not need to use until

later):

7. Click the Open box to get this screen:

8. You can run the video if you wish to get a better understanding of how it works

9. Otherwise press the X

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Creating Presentations with Prezi – The Title Page

1. Closing the video takes you to a page like this:

2. Follow the instructions on the screen and double click to get a screen like this:

3. Highlight the text:

4. Choose an alignment eg left/centre/right

5. Select a style:

6. If it is too long simply drag out the box by dragging the RIGHT arrow:

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7. Finally type in the title of the presentation:

8. If you want to go to TWO lines simply press Enter:

9. Click OK to leave the title:

10. To edit the title simply double click on it.

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Creating Presentations with Prezi – Adding and altering an Image

1. I want to develop my title by adding in a picture.

2. I go to the Circle Menu and select the Insert option:

3. The menu spins round and gets bigger. I then click on Load File:

4. I then select the image I want and press Open

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5. The image appears on the page:

6. Click on the image to bring up the zebra/ring menu:

7. The OUTER RING lets you rotate the image.

8. Click on the ring and drag the mouse CLOCKWISE or ANTI-CLOCKWISE eg

9. Let go to leave it in the position you want.

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10. If you click on the + sign on the outer ring you get these menu options:

11. Clicking on an option carries it out eg Send Backward:

12. The MIDDLE RING lets you make the image bigger or smaller.

13. When you click on the ring the image goes translucent:

14. Move the mouse OUTWARDS makes the image get bigger and INWARDS smaller:

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15. Click on the image one you have chosen the size you want:

16. The INNER RING allows you to move the image.

17. Click and press down the mouse to move the image:

18. To exit the menu click anywhere on the page.

NOTE: THE RING MENU OPTIONS WORK IN EXACTLY THE SAME WAY FOR TEXT EG

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Creating Presentations with Prezi – Adding Video

Prezi copes with video pretty well! Here is how to do it

1. To insert a video simply click on the Insert circle and select Load File:

2. Prezi takes the following file types: FLV and F4V and SWF – although with SWF you

have no control over the start/stop of the video

UPLOADING a SWF file

1. Find the file you want to add in. Select it and press Open:

2. The video downloads and starts playing automatically.

3. If you click on it you can alter the features using the zebra:

4. Unfortunately there is nothing to stop this playing again and again.

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UPLOADING a FLV file

1. Find the file you want to add in. Select it and press Open:

2. The video downloads and appears in a largish size:

3. This time you can see that you have some control over when it plays with the

CONTROLS:

4. When you run the presentation – the video automatically plays.

5. When you move away to another point in the presentation the movie stops.

6. When you go back to the movie, it plays again from the spot you left!

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UPLOADING A YOU TUBE FILE

1. Instead of uploading a You Tube video you can make a direct link to it.

2. Double click anywhere in the blank space to get the text box:

3. Go to YouTube and copy the URL from YouTube playing eg:

4. Go back to your text box on Prezi.

5. Paste in the link into the empty text box:

6. When you press OK, the link is made and the text box changes into a video:

YouTube style controls

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7. When you click on it you can alter the image using the Circle. You can change sizes,

the position and angle eg

8. The notebook only plays the video when you press the button.

NOTE: YOU TUBE VIDEOS

IF YOU ARE DOWNLOADING THE PREZI TO PLAY ON YOUR PC YOU MUST HAVE AN

INTERNET LINK TO YOU TUBE TO PLAY THE YOU TUBE MOVE

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Creating Presentations with Prezi – Adding Text Slide

Adding a text slide is very similar to adding text for a title

1. First click anywhere on the blank page and write in a title:

2. Sort out the alignment and styles and then press OK:

3. Now make another text entry below and add in the details – I tend to do these as

bullet points:

4. I tend to put the bullet points in a different style too:

5. Click OK then click back on to go to the zebra editor and drag the box beside the

title:

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6. Click back on the list and find the + icon as you need to GROUP together the title and

bullet points:

7. Click the Select More option then click the title to group it

8. Now when you move the block both the title and text move too

9. You can be a little more creative using Prezi by having the titles differently set eg

10. Or use the shape tool to add some shapes:

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Creating Presentations with Prezi – Adding Frames

Frames serve two purposes – they can be used to add a border but more importantly they are

used to group objects together so that when you play the presentation you see both on

screen together

1. To add a frame, simply go to the main menu and select Frames:

2. You get a number of options to you:

3. To create a frame click on the frame and drag a box around your items and let go:

4. If you make a mistake just press the Undo option (top right):

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5. If you wish to edit the frame simply click back on the main Write Menu:

6. Then click on the frame itself to bring up the editing circle:

7. You can do all the usual editing features that you saw in the Adding pictures

helpsheet before.

8. You can delete the frame directly by simply pressing Delete on the keyboard.

9. Frame types for the template I have used:

OPEN BRACKETS FILLED

CIRCLE HIDDEN (wont appear in presentation)

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Creating Presentations with Prezi – Making Paths to link the slides

Paths are how you link each portion of text, video or image. Here is how it is done

1. First make sure that your slides are suitably placed on the screen.

2. I have used the Zoom Out icon (see right of screen) to zoom out which give me more

room:

3. Remember every item on the screen can be linked together so if you want to see

TITLE AND TEXT you need to put them in a frame (see previous helpsheets)

4. Make sure you have added frames around the sections you need to group together:

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5. Now click back on the Main menu and choose Path

6. Make sure the 1-2-3 button is highlighted.

7. Click in the section where you want to start and a 1 appears:

8. Then click on the next section and a 2 appears:

9. Carry on clicking in order to make up the sequence you want to show your slides:

I have grouped my title

and text in a circle so the

number goes in the

middle

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10. If you make a mistake, either:

• Press Undo

• Drag a number out of the slide to the background

• Drag the number to a different slide

• Press Delete All to start again

11. To preview the presentation click back on the main menu and press the Show circle:

12. You can press the Full Screen button to show it full screen.

13. Press the Forward button to move the slide on

13. If you press and hold down you can make the presentation run automatically with 3

choices of timings:

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Creating Presentations with Prezi – Downloading the Prezi for playing

Prezis can be downloaded for playing separately on your PC or notebook

1. First make sure your presentation is saved by pressing the Save at button:

2. Next press the Exit button to go back to your Home page

3. Now click on you’re your presentation:

4. You will get this larger menu:

5. Press the Download… button to get a screen like this:

6. Make sure the top option is ticked then press the Start Downloading button:

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7. You may have to click the here link to get this box:

8. Save the ZIPPED file to your My Documents area by pressing the Save button. This

may take some time if you have lots of video files.

9. Once the file is downloaded press the Open button:

10. Highlight the file and press the Extract All files link:

11. The wizard them makes a folder is made from the zipped file with all the

information you need for the presentation:

12. Click on the FLASH prezi link to run the presentation!