Wednesday, 9 September 2015

The Wonderful World Of Prezi Presentation Design

By Daphne Bowen


Prezi is a powerful web based presentation tool. The particular prezi presentation design you choose to implement will determine the response you get from the audience. In general, it was designed to break the monotony of traditional presentation tools such as Microsoft PowerPoint.

It was founded by three Hungarian programmers very recently in 2009. Its usage targets all kinds of individuals in different professions such as such as teachers students and business executives. It was discovered that audiences are much more likely to pay attention to your presentation if it was more interactive.

Its application is quite easy to understand. The first step is logging in to their online accounts. The new users will have to sign up for new accounts. They will further be required to select an account option either free or a paid account. Getting started is easily illustrated by simple step by step instructional videos available on you tube. This way the new users can get to be quickly familiarized with the basics.

Lets now get to the interesting bit, how to create a presentation design. There are a number of templates on offer that you will be required to choose from. This is important in determining whether your view will be two dimensional or three dimensional. The 3-D templates are more versatile since they allow you to zoom In and out of the background. The text, colors and objects interaction with the landscape are usually determined by the choice of the template.

Since the templates usually only provide the skeleton, the details of the actual presentation will be determined by what you actually intend on presenting. A more general approach that works all the time is to base your ideas around major points of your talk. This will not only give you a bigger picture but will also help you in filling out the minor details at much more ease.

Key to its evolution is the ability to stand out as a dynamic, non linear tool to expressing ones ideas. This serves to breathe life to an otherwise boring conventional slide approach. The other crucial factor is that it is an open source software available to anybody with access to the internet.

Despite all this, lots of complaints have been raised regarding its three dimensional approach. The complaints are centered on the premise that it causes motion sickness when exposed to it for extended periods of time. This effect is usually compounded when the presenter moves through different illustrations quickly. Another limitation may be on its accessibility. Although being cloud based is beneficial, it can cause access issues if the individual resides in remote locales or places where internet connectivity is not easily available. Older people also have a bias towards the tools they are more familiar with due to the learning curve associated with understanding an entirely new concept.

In conclusion, prezi is a very powerful tool that should be encouraged for use by individuals or groups. Those who are willing to go through the process of learning and understanding its use get to reap the rewards it has to offer.




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