I have had a quick nose around Slideshare, but I’ve concentrated
most of my efforts for this Thing on Prezi. This is entirely new to me and I
have to say I’ve really rather enjoyed getting to grips with it. It is an utterly
different kettle of fish to the now much familiar PowerPoint presentation. You
know pretty much what you are going to get with PowerPoint (no offence) but
Prezi is indeed rather dynamic! Moving well away from linear presentation
styles and allowing a more free-flowing, bells and whistles approach! I’m
really rather taken with it!
Does take a bit of getting used to getting a handle on the
different features (all that talk of bubbles and zebras) and generally
overcoming some initial bouts of motion sickness from some of the whizzing
about, but once you’ve got that sorted it is actually quite fun! There was a
helpful video on YouTube which I made reference to which helped me to get a
handle on things. Then I was off playing about with it! Even some very basic
and frankly shoddy creations ended up looking relatively swish (though they
were quickly deleted for fear of initial trials being actually seen and judged).
Admittedly I think creating a Prezi does definitely benefit
from having a bit of a plan of action laid down before you start (as the very
sage Ned Potter advises), just so you know where you are going and don’t end up
roving all over the place and making yourself dizzy!
This will be a marvellous tool for future presentations or
generally using to get some ideas across. Indeed, I’ve already got a little
project in mind for it….watch this space!
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