My first attempt at a Prezi, shown below, is pretty mundane, given all the options available, but it took me a while just to get the hang of the basics, so I didn't think I should try anything too complicated just yet. Having recently been on a very enjoyable walking holiday, I thought I'd bore you with some of my photos.
The potential for creating interesting and fun presentations using Prezi is clearly huge however, and it isn't surprising that it has become so popular. Having explored the site, it is clear that a lot of the presentations have been created by schoolchildren as homework projects, and many others are corporate creations, but there are still many useful ones, including the one I've included below, which tackles the same subject as one of the SlideShare presentations I featured in my last blog post.
One very small niggle I have is that after you have viewed someone's prezi, it doesn't automatically revert to the beginning to let you watch it over again. To do this you either need to refresh the screen, or click back through the prezi to the beginning. A "start over" button would be handy.
Creating presentations is not something I do very often, but if I ever need to do so in future, I think Prezi is what I'll turn to. Hopefully I can learn to produce something more polished than my first effort!
Showing posts with label Extra thing week 13. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Extra thing week 13. Show all posts
Sunday, 4 September 2011
Thursday, 1 September 2011
Slideshare
After casting about for something to post to Slideshare, I finally remembered a presentation that I created for the library course I did a few years ago. It isn't particularly good, or interesting, but since it was just sitting there on a memory stick, I thought I'd give it an airing. So, here you go:
Uploading it was a very straightforward process, and I found it equally easy to then embed the presentation in this blog. I like the fact that the site provides statistics on the number of viewings that presentations receive. I imagine that a link to a nice portfolio of work related presentations would be a useful thing to add to one's entry on a site like LinkedIn, especially if they were getting lots of views! Having posted my presentation, I then spent some time browsing the site, and found a few interesting presentations by others. This one deals nicely with the extra thing for week 13:
And then there's this one, which addresses a topic I've managed to mention quite a lot on this blog!
Uploading it was a very straightforward process, and I found it equally easy to then embed the presentation in this blog. I like the fact that the site provides statistics on the number of viewings that presentations receive. I imagine that a link to a nice portfolio of work related presentations would be a useful thing to add to one's entry on a site like LinkedIn, especially if they were getting lots of views! Having posted my presentation, I then spent some time browsing the site, and found a few interesting presentations by others. This one deals nicely with the extra thing for week 13:
And then there's this one, which addresses a topic I've managed to mention quite a lot on this blog!
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