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Prezi Helpsheets
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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2. You will need to create a username and password by clicking Sign Up:
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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
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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:
13. The next time you go to Prezi simply type in your Email address and password:
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2. You are taken to your My tab where your Prezis will be stored:
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6. Click the Open Me box to reveal other options (which you will not need to use until
later):
8. You can run the video if you wish to get a better understanding of how it works
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2. Follow the instructions on the screen and double click to get a screen like this:
5. Select a style:
6. If it is too long simply drag out the box by dragging the RIGHT arrow:
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3. The menu spins round and gets bigger. I then click on Load File:
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10. If you click on the + sign on the outer ring you get these menu options:
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:
17. Click and press down the mouse to move the image:
NOTE: THE RING MENU OPTIONS WORK IN EXACTLY THE SAME WAY FOR TEXT EG
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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
1. Find the file you want to add in. Select it and press Open:
3. If you click on it you can alter the features using the zebra:
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1. Find the file you want to add in. Select it and press Open:
3. This time you can see that you have some control over when it plays with the
CONTROLS:
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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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:
6. When you press OK, the link is made and the text box changes into a video:
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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.
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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:
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
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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
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:
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.
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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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9. Carry on clicking in order to make up the sequence you want to show your slides:
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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. If you press and hold down you can make the presentation run automatically with 3
choices of timings:
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1. First make sure your presentation is saved by pressing the Save at button:
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.
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:
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