[OSX-Users] Re: prezi

[Tim Chown]

One of my GDPs used it this year, and it looked very slick the way they used it to zoom in and out of material on varous aspects on the project.

Their final presentation was back on Powerpoint though, which may say something. They presented veyr well either way.

Tim

On 12 Feb 2014, at 13:22, Leslie Carr <lac at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> I'm still taking tablets. In theory I could see that "zooming into the big picture" was an interesting presentation metaphor, but I was always too wrapped up in motion sickness to get the benefit.
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> Prof Les Carr
> Web Science Institute
> University of Southampton
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> On 12 Feb 2014, at 13:16, Steve Harris <s.w.harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:s.w.harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
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> It was quite popular 3-4 years ago, but now the novelty has worn off it’s really only useful in very specific circumstances. You still see it used occasionally.
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> On 12 Feb 2014, at 12:54, Luke Teacy <wtlt at ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:wtlt at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
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> Does anyone use prezi or know if we have a site license?
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> I few people (outside academia) have mentioned it to me and swear by it.
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> Basic concept seems to be to replace a linear sequence of slides with the "big picture" that you zoom in and out and around.
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> I'd be tempted to give it ago, though flicking through some examples, I could image the constant zooming and moving animation could easily give the whole audience a headache if over used.
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> thoughts?
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> some example presentations here:
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> http://blog.crazyegg.com/2012/10/29/example-presentations-using-prezi/
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