Prezi HOTSHOT

By Hedwyg van Groenendaal

This book takes a handson, tutorialstyle approach that walks you through ten individual projects, each focusing on producing a specific Prezi.

If you have some basic experience of Prezi and want to gain advanced knowledge by building different kinds of Prezi projects, then this book is for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Release date: Apr 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9781849699785

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Table of Contents

Prezi HOTSHOT

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Mission briefing

Why is it awesome?

Your Hotshot objectives

Mission checklist

Task 1

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Classified intel

Mission accomplished

A Hotshot challenge / Hotshot challenges

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. The Fastest Way to Go from an Idea to a Prezi

Mission briefing

Why is it awesome?

Your Hotshot objectives

Mission checklist

You have an idea but where do you start?

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Brainstorming in Prezi

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Classified intel

From brainstorm to mind map

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Classified intel

Filling in the details

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Creating path step 1 and the end

Creating path step 2

Creating path step 3

Creating path step 4

Other path steps

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Classified intel

How should you present your mind map?

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Mission accomplished

A Hotshot challenge

2. Present Yourself with a Prezumé

Mission briefing

Why is it awesome?

Your Hotshot objectives

Mission checklist

What's your goal?

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Classified intel

Gathering all the information

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Writing your résumé

Collecting visual material

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Structuring and choosing content

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Getting creative!

Engage thrusters

Examples

Creative ideas

Using templates

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Creating your prezumé from start to finish

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Sharing your prezumé

Prepare for lift off

A free Public account

Enjoy or Pro account

Engage thrusters

Sharing with the world

Sharing with a specific person

Embedding your prezumé on your website

Adding prezi to your Facebook timeline

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Mission accomplished

A Hotshot challenge

3. I Want to Use Prezi for My Lessons

Mission briefing

Why is it awesome?

Your Hotshot objectives

Mission checklist

Identifying learning content

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Creating an overview

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Classified intel

Creating the content

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Determining the look and feel

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Classified intel

Switching between topics

Engage thrusters

Creating the path

Navigating through the prezi

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Mission accomplished

A Hotshot challenge

4. Designing a Serious Corporate Presentation

Mission briefing

Why is it awesome?

Your Hotshot objectives

Mission checklist

Defining your strategy

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

What's your goal?

What's your message?

Who's your audience?

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Classified intel

Brainstorming the content

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Defining the title and keywords

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Thinking of a good concept

Engage thrusters

Examples of creative concepts

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Classified intel

What's the story you want to tell?

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

(myowns2m)

(call to action)

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Creating your storyboard

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Dividing your story into views

Drawing your storyboard

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Defining colors, fonts, and other design issues

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Creating your presentation

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Classified intel

Mission accomplished

A Hotshot challenge

5. Presenting in the PechaKucha Style

Mission briefing

Why is it awesome?

Your Hotshot objectives

Mission checklist

Understanding PechaKucha

Engage thrusters

Objective complete

Using PechaKucha in Prezi

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Using images

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Classified intel

Presenting your idea in the PechaKucha style

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Using your creativity

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Mission accomplished

A Hotshot challenge

6. Presenting Boring Stuff in a Better Way

Mission briefing

Why is it awesome?

Your Hotshot objectives

Mission checklist

Rethinking your data

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Creating great graphs

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Visualizing locations

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Making interesting timelines

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Limiting your lists

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Putting it all together

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Mission accomplished

A Hotshot challenge

7. I Really Like Those Hand-drawn Prezis

Mission briefing

Why is it awesome?

Your Hotshot objectives

Mission checklist

Let's draw!

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

From a drawing to a vectorized image

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Putting it together in Prezi

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Mission accomplished

A Hotshot challenge

8. Let's Animate Your Prezi

Mission briefing

Why is it awesome?

Your Hotshot objectives

Mission checklist

Main idea – the Prezi machine

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Where do I get great illustrations?

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Classified intel

Building the basics

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

The happy girl

The machine

A machine with gauges

The pipes

The small parts

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Creating animations in Flash

Engage thrusters

Moving the machine

Popping out the smoke clouds

Rotating gauge pointers

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Classified intel

Putting it all together in Prezi

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Classified intel

Mission accomplished

A Hotshot challenge

9. More Interactivity with the Prezi Player API

Mission briefing

Why is it awesome?

Your Hotshot objectives

Mission checklist

Embedding the prezi

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Classified intel

Creating the menu

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Classified intel

Making it work

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Classified intel

Creating a submenu

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Mission accomplished

A Hotshot challenge

10. Creating an Award-winning Prezi

Mission briefing

Why is it awesome?

Your Hotshot objectives

Mission checklist

Learning about the assignment

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Explaining the process

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Classified intel

Creating the prezi

Engage thrusters

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Creating special effects

Prepare for lift off

Engage thrusters

Using a 3D background

Using voice-overs

Creating the video of the eye

Objective complete – mini debriefing

Mission accomplished

A Hotshot challenge

Index

Prezi HOTSHOT

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Prezi HOTSHOT

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Credits

Author

Hedwyg van Groenendaal

Reviewers

Marthe Bijman

Jeremine Holt

David Hopkins

Mikah J. Pritchard

J.J. Sylvia IV

Commissioning Editor

Usha Iyer

Acquisition Editors

Pramila Balan

Meeta Rajani

Content Development Editor

Chalini Snega Victor

Technical Editors

Krishnaveni Haridas

Novina Kewalramani

Anand Singh

Copy Editor

Roshni Banerjee

Project Coordinator

Amey Sawant

Proofreader

Ameesha Green

Indexer

Mariammal Chettiyar

Production Coordinator

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Cover Work

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About the Author

Hedwyg van Groenendaal (1971, MSc) has 20 years of experience in the field of the Internet and web design. This started during her studies in building Information Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology. She graduated in 1995. Quite soon after finishing her studies, she started her own Internet and web design company called Via Milia, and a few years later, she started an Internet education center.

Hedwyg is passionate about creating easy access to tools and techniques that are (or seem) difficult for many people. She is knowledgeable, enthusiastic, creative, passionate, technical, analytical, and is also an expert in Prezi and social media. Her motto is If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Hedwyg has already written 10 books on web design, Flash, ActionScript, and Dreamweaver as well as five books on Prezi (four in Dutch and one in English, The Ultimate Prezi Guide). She founded Prezi University. From this initiative, workshops, trainings, seminars and events about Prezi are organized, such as the annual Prezi day.

Prezi.com appreciates all the initiatives by Hedwyg van Groenendaal and decided to appoint her as one of the first official Prezi Experts.

On February 28, 2013, Hedwyg won the worldwide TED-Prezi contest, Ideas Matter, with her Prezi IDENTITY, which was inspired by Bryan Stevenson's TED talk We need to talk about an injustice.

You will find more information on Hedwyg van Groenendaal and her company, Prezi University, at www.preziuniversity.com, and facebook.com/preziuniversity, and you can also follow her on her Twitter accounts: @hedwygNL and @preziuniversity.

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my husband Ton, and my children Keyon, Shimara, and Mazon for all their support and enthusiasm during the writing process of this book. You are very important and the best thing that ever happened to me!

Many thanks to my parents, who have always been right behind me my whole life. I deeply appreciate that.

Thank you to all the people from Packt Publishing and the reviewers for the help, the critical notes, and the compliments.

Herinneringen die je later wilt hebben, moet je nu maken.

Create now the memories you want to keep for later.

About the Reviewers

Marthe Bijman is a writer, literary critic, and communications specialist in Mining Engineering. She has worked extensively in the Mining and Information Technology industries. She holds a BA degree, BA Honors in Literature, BA Honors in Journalism, H.Dip.Ed in Language Teaching, and MA in Applied Linguistics and Literary Sciences. She has nurtured a lifelong interest in language and literary analysis, and is an astute and prolific reader and literature reviewer. She publishes her reviews and thoughts on the written word on her blog and website, www.sevencircumstances.com. In collaboration with her husband, she is the author and designer of self-published photography, reference, and poetry books, featured at www.blurb.com. Born in South Africa, she now lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.

Jeremine Holt is a passionate presentation designer, illustrator, and a Prezi trainer. She lives in Rotterdam, Holland and knows how to successfully combine entrepreneurship and being a single mum. Since she started her graphic design business in 1999, she's also been teaching about design software and the design process to students, adults, and children. She is always on the lookout for chances to create authentic visual communication with preferably multiple layers of meaning. Therefore, being just a graphic designer (http://www.westenwindontwerp.nl) wasn't enough. She did elaborate research on visualization methods that can be used to improve the results of change management. Her conclusion is that visualizing change and showing where an organization wants to go and how to get there is very effective. It gets people engaged and motivated.

While looking for the best way to present her visualizations, she discovered Prezi in 2010. She realized that Prezi isn't just a tool. When used in the right way, it can be a motor for creativity, innovation, and visual thinking.

Since then, she's been teaching Prezi and creating visual presentations (http://www.thepreziexperience.nl). Jeremine has, for example, worked for Rotterdam's city manager, for the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, and for the international consultancy firm, Auren.

These days, she's further developing her business in presentation design and visual content creation. It's her mission to build as many bridges as possible between creativity and the business world.

David Hopkins is an experienced and respected Learning Technologist in the UK. His work and research focuses on the use of appropriate technology for students, online and on campus. From a background in commercial Internet technologies and online communities, David has been able to apply knowledge and experience with online learning and support and bring about effective and appropriate use of technology for learning. His current interests and research are based around the use of mobile devices for online learning (for both campus and distance learners), and the use of social media and social networks for effective communication and collaboration between staff, students, and his peers.

David Hopkins is a regular blogger at www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk. He blogs about different aspects of learning technology, Blackboard, CMS/VLEs, social networks, and other aspects of the utilization of technology in a pedagogic environment. He started blogging about his experiences and activities in 2008, but has been an advocate of blogging and online communities since 1999. He first worked as a web designer. Prezi has long been David's passion and he offers Prezi workshops to academic staff and students alike and enables students to leave higher education ready for the modern office environment, giving them skills and knowledge to incorporate new technologies and new approaches to existing technology in the workplace.

Mikah J. Pritchard is an Instructional Designer currently living in Kentucky. She has an MS. Ed. degree in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University and has begun working on her Doctorate in Educational Psychology from University of Kentucky. She develops e-learning courses that implement new technologies to produce engaging instruction with a strong theoretical basis. Her passion for graphic design is incorporated into all of her instructional projects.

Mikah has worked at Vincennes University, DePauw University, and is currently working at Eastern Kentucky University. At EKU, she works within the Instructional Development Center (IDC) on course design for e-campus courses. Her areas of expertise include instructional design, instructional technology consulting, graphic design, student support, and social media education.

She has also reviewed Mastering Prezi for Business, Russell Anderson-Williams, R., Packt Publishing (reviewed in 2012 prior to publication).

J.J. Sylvia IV has experience spanning the fields of