All about Prezi: Beginner’s Guide

In recent years, Prezi has become popular in business schools and businesses. It’s an interesting alternative to the traditional power point presentation. Want to create a presentation that’s more eye-catching and engaging? Prezi may be the right tool for you. Let’s dig a little deeper into the tool.

What is a “prezi”?

Prezi is a web-based presentation tool, an alternative to traditional slide based presentation programs such as PowerPoint. Instead of slides, Prezi makes use of one large canvas that allows you to pan and zoom in to various parts of the canvas to emphasize certain ideas.

A Prezi basically means a presentation (prezi for short).

In Prezi, you can use text, images, and videos to present; you can zoom in and out. It is similar to PowerPoint, except that you do not make slides.

It also provides you with a collection of templates to choose from to help new users get accustomed to the interface.

You can present a prezi to others through your prezi account, you can link to them, you can also embed them in blogs.

Why use Prezi?

Here are more reasons to use Prezi.

• Prezi is free to use (you need to pay to unlock additional features); everything you need to create and share a dynamic prezi is available free of cost.

• It runs entirely through a web browser so there are fewer compatibility issues and the Prezis look the same, no matter the computer you’re viewing it on.

• It can use movement and metaphor to help communicate a point.

• You could use a map template to communicate a sense of space and distance between locations

• You can choose from a wide range of templates.

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