The Articulated Arm of an Archive Raider. I confess, I’m a raider. When permitted, or rather, when I encounter no explicit prohibitions from library and archive staff, I like to get copies of both information directly useful to a current research project, but also of materials which might be useful on future projects or for friends working on something similar. I move in, pillage what I can, and retreat to pick through the plunder in search of new targets for the next day. I’m an information pack-rat and I refuse to go into rehab. I know there are many of us out there. At some point a library or archive raider will have to admit the benefits of going digital.
Increasingly, the weapon of choice is a camera. The ideal solution for some of these problems is to attach your camera to a copy stand. The problem with most copy stands, including those you can order online, is that they are usually not very portable. Fortunately, anyone can piece together a similar solution (no tools required) with a little handy searching on Amazon. Prezi - Presentations With a Twist. Many Eyes. Prezi. Prezi A new presentation tool caught my eye this week.
It is called Prezi. Now, I have to say up front that I have not used this technology, nor have I seen it used in an actual presentation. Still, my first impression is a favourable one. The basic difference between Prezi and PowerPoint or Keynote is that whereas the latter are series of slides, Prezi is a single canvas on which you put all your material. You then move from place to place, zooming in and out and spinning around with a significant amount of freedom. I suggest you click this link to the Prezi website and watch the one-minute video on the main page. The effect is certainly arresting, in part, I am sure, because of its novelty. Nonetheless, Prezi looks intriguing. I predict that we will be hearing much more about Prezi in the future.
What do you think? If you like what you've just read, why not share it with others? Like this: Like Loading... About John Zimmer. Prezi Is The Coolest Online Presentation Tool I've Ever Seen. At last week’s The Next Web Conference, I was part of the 4-headed jury that evaluated all presenting startups and ultimately decided My Name Is E should be awarded the top prize. It was an extremely close call, since we ended up having to decide between the young Dutch company and a startup that built a simply amazing web application you’re really going to want to check out.
The tool I’m referring to is called Prezi, and it allows you to create amazing presentations on the web. If you think you’ve heard that too many times, don’t stop reading just yet, because this one is just plain awesome. It’s an entirely Flash-based app that lets you break away from the slide-by-slide approach of most presentations. Instead, it allows you to create non-linear presentations where you can zoom in and out of a visual map containing words, links, images, videos, etc.
This is similar to pptPlex, a Microsoft Office Labs project that aims to bring that type of functionality to PowerPoint. 33 Highly Useful Presentation Tools. After the terrific market response to 11 Highly Useful Presentation Tools for Sales and Marketing, we knew that a follow-on post was mandatory to help readers sell and market successfully online (and off).
Here is a list of 33 more presentation tools we hope you’ll find helpful. SlideRocket is a presentation creation and management service that I didn’t include in 11 Presentation Tools and I wish I had. They offer useful tools to build presentations and cool analytics tools. The service starts at free and goes up to $20/user/month. PhotoPeach is a photo site with a twist. It allows you to import your photos from Facebook or Picasa (no others at this time) and create a slide show, adding words, audio, and music. You can host it there or embed it in your site or blog. Amazon Slideshow Widget is for those who have an Amazon presence at all, this widget is a way to display Amazon products on your store or alongside your profile. Blow Up is a downloadable tool that works with Flickr. Prezi: presentation junk 2.0 – Jason Priem. It’s 2009. I think everyone out there knows that Powerpoint is, at best, overused (at worst:Stalin).
Particularly gruesome is the animated slide-transition “feature,” which I think most agree has the same communication effectiveness and subtle charm as “<blink>” tags, mouse-cursor trails, and hilarious animated gifs of cats. So how is it that presentation tool Prezi is suddenly the toast of the town? The quick sell looks like this: “Prezi allows anyone who can sketch an idea on a napkin to create and perform stunning non-linear presentations with relations, zooming into details, and adjusting to the time left without the need to skip slides.”
I love how the first phrase suggests that there’s this great mass of napkin-sketching geniuses out there who can’t get their ideas out (until now!). When it comes down to it, the real selling point of Prezi is just the “stunning” presentation. Prezi: Presentations With a Twist: Business Collaboration News « Just about every presentation app works the same way: Whether you rely on Powerpoint, Keynote or another presentation application, you’re sharing a series of slides that progress in a linear fashion. While you can craft beautiful presentations, you’re up against a format that never changes. One web-based application is working on changing that, though: Prezi has an intuitive interface for both building a presentation and sharing it with your audience. One Big Page Where a typical presentation is based on individual slides with a set progression, the starting point for a Prezi presentation is one big page.
On this blank canvas, you place all of your elements for the entire presentation — images, text, even multimedia. The ability to zoom in and out during a presentation is one of the most important features on Prezi. Prepping With Prezi It’s a fast way to create a presentation, and it offers new opportunities if you need to customize one presentation for multiple audiences. Practical Prezi. Don’t call me DOM » Prezi vs JessyInk.
I gave a couple of talks over the past month, where I chose not to use the W3C-traditional HTML-based slides (using Slidy), but instead to use a more graphical approach, using two different tools: Prezi, a Flash-based commercial tool that I used for a presentation I gave on Web 2.0 and beyondJessyInk, an open-source extension to the open-source SVG editor InkScape, with which I built the presentation I gave on W3C and the Social Web. I’m summarizing below my experiences with both these tools. Prezi Prezi is a Flash-based tool, that allows both to build and show 2D-presentations. I stumbled upon Prezi a few months ago, and was rather impressed by the type of presentations it allows to build: instead of working on slides that replace each other as you progress in the presentation, it offers an infinite canvas on which you zoom-in and out, translate and rotate during the presentation.
JessyInk/InkScape In the future. Larry's Trial Wall by Larry Frolich. View | CASES* | Ahead. Create a free website and a free blog. What is the Backchannel? What is TodaysMeet? TodaysMeet is the premier backchannel chat platform for classroom teachers and learners. Designed for teachers, TodaysMeet takes great care to respect the needs and privacy of students while giving educators the tools for success. Students join fast, easy to start rooms with no registration, and can immediately start powerful conversations that augment the traditional classroom. What is the Backchannel? The backchannel is the conversation that goes on alongside the primary activity, presentation, or discussion.
TodaysMeet helps harness the backchannel and turn it into a platform that can enable new activities and discussions, extend conversations beyond the classroom, and give all students a voice. Embracing the backchannel can turn it from distraction to engagement. Presentation Zen. Prezi - The Zooming Presentation Editor. View | MAP* | Ahead. TypeWith.me: Live Text Document Collaboration!
A New Way To Lecture. TodaysMeet. Weebly - Create a free website and a free blog. You Publish. Build your wall! Scott McCloud | Journal » Archive » Prezi + Webcomics = ? April 6th, 2009 The online presentation tool Prezi goes into public beta this week. It’s a zooming interface designed for presentations which caught the eye of a few of us in the lunatic fringe as having potential applications for you know what. Neal Von Flue posted an in-depth look at the comics implications of this new tool on his Facebook page when a few of us got advanced notice of the private beta in February.
Unpack the comments thread for input from Krisztián Kristóf, a cartoonist and developer on the Prezi team who is also considering these issues. Together with developments like Microsoft’s embryonic Infinite Canvas Alpha and the likelihood of multi-touch netbooks in the near future, Prezi may be part of a general trend toward continuous-space navigation in communication and the arts.