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1. ROTATE PICTURE IN PREZI CLASSIC HOW TO
2. ROTATE PICTURE IN PREZI CLASSIC MOVIE
3. ROTATE PICTURE IN PREZI CLASSIC SOFTWARE

To this day I have yet to see a Prezi presentation that would not have been better had the speaker used something else, including nothing at all. The people most drawn to use Prezi are those who are more enchanted by the pretense of style, rather than substance. And as a speaker if I work at a whiteboard, I can’t hide behind slides.

ROTATE PICTURE IN PREZI CLASSIC SOFTWARE

I can’t draw like Bill can, but I’ve found working with a whiteboard, virtual or not, invites an audience’s attention in a way software can never do. He’s not a dynamic speaker, but he doesn’t need to be, as the clarity and value of his ideas are strong enough on their own. It was more dynamic than any software, and more personal too, since we all could watch him work with his hands. I was deeply inspired by watching Bill Verplank speak at UIE years ago, where he simply drew as he talked. And it’s easy to switch between it and Keynote if I want to follow the basic structure of a slide deck. Hooking up an iPad with a drawing app works wonderfully well as a virtual one.

ROTATE PICTURE IN PREZI CLASSIC HOW TO

If I want to have more control over how to represent things in 2D, I use a WHITEBOARD. I’ve experimented with many different ways to present. Instead of thinking “I’m so proud of how I worked hard to explain this important idea so that my audience can understand it” they think “Here comes my favorite transition! Look at how the entire screen is going to rotate!” I can see how, in the hands of a skilled communicator, Prezi makes some things easier to do, but a skilled communicator would do just fine with any tool. All the most distracting elements for would-be speakers, elements that distract them away from the quality thinking required to speak well. Prezi bills itself on the ability to ZOOM, to MOVE, to TRANSITION.

But as I used it I realized it had taken the things I hated most about Powerpoint, and emphasized them. I liked the idea of a fully 2D space to work from. I first saw a demo of Prezi years ago, and it seemed interesting. Only then will the slides have the proper role as a prop, rather being the star and making you the prop. After each practice, improve how well the slides support what you want to say. Make the quickest and dirtiest slides possible, and then start practicing the talk. And even then, slides should be a tool for drafting. Only after some hard thinking on these questions is there any hope a presentation will turn out well, and it’s only then that a speaker should start thinking about slides.

You will likely talk to your slides when you present, and not your audience, as you will have spent more time on the slides than you did practicing giving the talk itself. You will spend all your time perfecting your slides, instead of perfecting your thoughts. If you make slides first, you become a slide slave. There is no point in making a single slide until you know some of what you want to say, and how best to say it. Most people I know, when informed they need to give a presentation, immediately begin making slides, and they may as well tie a noose around their own necks. They want good ideas, expressed well, especially ideas that answer the questions that motivated them to attend the lecture in the first place. No one comes to listen to a lecture in hope of great slides. Popular presentation tools focus on slides, which should not be the focus at all. While I do believe you can make a good presentation with any tool, and a bad one too, the emphasis of the tool influences choices. The tools are slide centric, not presentation centric, and people instinctively follow the metaphor built in to their tools. It’s backwards and broken.īecause of how Powerpoint, and Keynote, are constructed, common habits for creating presentations are often poor.

ROTATE PICTURE IN PREZI CLASSIC MOVIE

It’s like wanting to make a movie and spending all your budget just on costumes. They spend more time picking out animations and fonts than what their audience needs to learn and how best to convey those lessons. One of the many jokes about Powerpoint is how much time people who use it spend picking transitions between slides.