That’s hardly a ringing endorsement as a presentation tool! □ Okay, professional presenters aren’t real people (because, for example, we take more account of how long a presentation slide deck takes to put together vs the quality in a more overt way than amateur-presenters do) but even so, it’s worth thinking about. I would, but I’m too busy so I fall back on software I know = 14%.Well I can’t pretend this is a representative sample of all professional presenters ‘cos it’s just the result of a straw poll amongst members of the Professional Speaking Association in the UK on their facebook page, but it’s fun… Side note 2: What do pro presenters think? The trick lies in getting thing just right, and then doing repeated copy-paste-edit throughout the rest of your presentation. Shift-click can make things a little quicker by selecting multiple objects at a time when you’re looking at them, but the limits are pretty clear. In short, if you change your mind about how you want something to look after you’ve done an hour’s work, you’ve got to go through your work and change each bit manually. If you make a change in on object (let’s say you change the colour of your font) that change affects that object but only that object. The reason is, basically, that Prezi ‘thinks’ of each object as unique. Or at least it’s not quicker at first, but once you get the hang of the work-arounds and short cuts it speeds things up quite a bit. ![]() With that limitation, the advantage of Prezi Next seems to lie in its interface – is it quicker/easier/better than PowerPoint when it comes to making decent ‘slide decks’? The short answer is no – it’s not quicker. (There’s one cool feature though, in that you can jump around the overview in a way that allows you to skip un-necessary bits of your presentation that’s a bit easier than it is in PowerPoint or Keynote.) Instead of moving from slide to slide in the traditional way you slide around a big overview. I’ve seen some great presentations made using Prezi and I’ve seen some bloody awful stuff – all it did was replace death by bullet point with death by sea-sickness, and looking at the zillion-and-one templates Prezi Next offers you when you try to start writing a new presentation, (almost) all they expect people do to in a Prezi presentation is something very PowerPoint-like, just using a different slide transition. The second is that moving from Prezi Classic to Prezi Next seems to have abandoned that idea, given that it’s now pretty much all template driven! The first obvious one is that the principles of good presentation structure apply to any software (and none!), so there’s nothing to stop you using the approach of know-what-you’re-doing-before-you-start-clicking for PowerPoint too (and in fact you should!). Side note: Is there a difference in how you think about your presentation?Īlthough Prezi talked for a long time about one of its big advantages was that the big overview board you start your presentation with required you to have thought more about the structure of your presentation than PowerPoint did I have a couple of problems with that. So is this a good restart for the one-time New Kid On The Block of presenting software? For the first time in a long time I’ve been asked to do some presentations training focusing on Prezi, so it might just… (I reviewed it on the old presentation skills blog a while ago.) New users can’t get to Prezi Classic and presentations made on Prezi Classic won’t play on Prezi Next. The original is now called Prezi Classic. Presentation software “Prezi” recently ‘upgraded’ to Prezi Next.
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