Prezi for iPad

Prezi releases an app for the iPad. Users can create an account at prezi.com and create prezis, then access those prezis through the iPad app.

Lesson 3:Quick Tips on Presenting & Publishing

Lesson 3:Quick Tips on Presenting & Publishing
by Adam Somlai-Fischer

There are several ways you can prepare and use a prezi during a live talk, and there are also several ways to publish your prezi. Check out tips and tricks in this video, and read below this video for additional information.


Before the presentation
Better "save" than sorry

After you finish creating a prezi, you should download it - especially for an important presentation. Press Exit, and then download your file from prezi.com/my via the Download tab.
Downloaded prezis can be submitted to conference organizers, as they work on any computer without internet access -- even without prezi being installed.
With Prezi Desktop, you can export the finished prezi, which creates the same format as above: a simple prezi player.
If you have internet access, you can present directly from prezi.com. Note that keyboard shortcuts will not work in prezi Fullscreen mode when using a browser.


Using a projector

If using a projector to show your prezi, note that the screen resolution will change once the projector is plugged in.
Therefore, it's best to resize your downloaded prezi or browser window before plugging in the projector. Once you have projected your prezi, click Fullscreen to maximize the viewing experience.
You can also plan ahead while creating your prezi. Most laptops are wide screen, but most projectors use the 4:3 aspect ratio. Hold down shift while drawing a frame (bracket or rectangular) to keep the ratio at 4:3 - so you can see exactly how prezi will appear on a projector.


During the presentation

The easiest way to control a prezi is using a Path with a remote clicker. If you need additional navigational freedom, here are some hints:
Step through using a Path and a Clicker

Set up a path in your prezi to establish your storyline. Create a large frame around the entire prezi, and add that to the path to show the overview. It's good practice to return to the overview during your presentation, so the audience knows where you are in your talk.
In a downloaded prezi or in Show mode, use the arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate forward and back. To jump back to Start, use your mouse to click and hold the back button on the bottom right -- a restart icon will pop up.
However, the best experience is using a remote clicker -- most will work with Prezi out of the box. Just press Next or Previous to navigate in the path. (Note: some remotes will not work in the browser in Fullscreen mode, so it's best to download your prezi).


Navigate freely through your prezi

Want to respond to audience questions, and avoid jumping back through all the path steps? No problem!
Zoom out for the overview, then zoom into the subject in question. Zoom out a little to show related issues.
Navigation tips:
Pan your prezi by dragging your mouse.
Zoom into an object by clicking on it.
Zoom out by clicking on the background.
Use the up/down arrow keys to zoom in and out, use left/right to step through the path.
After your detour, you can return to the path by clicking Next (on the remote: right key or the arrow button)
If you want to continue your path from another point, click on any object in your path, and click Next to continue from there.


TED speaker, James Geary, holding a remote clicker to control his prezi with a path.

Adam, Prezi founder, using a path with a remote for the main narrative, but also zooming around freely to address audience questions.

Pachube CEO, Usman Haque, navigating freely and zooming through his prezi from a laptop.

Chris Mattheisen, CEO of Magyar Telekom (Owner of T-Mobile Hungary), had an AV team controlling his prezi when addressing 6000 employees on an HD projection.

Jim Olver presenting at Banff Centre, using a laptop to control a Prezi with a Path




After the presentation

Publish from Prezi.com with a click

After you present, you can publish your prezi. To ensure it makes sense without a presenter, add comments and speaker notes to your prezi. Then, click on it from prezi.com/my and check the box marked Publish. In addition, you can click on the Share tab and copy the embed code to easily add the prezi to your blog.

The red notes added here would not be needed in a live presentation with a speaker, but they help drive the narrative for online viewers.

Lesson 2:Why the Best Prezis use Grouping & Layering

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Lesson 1:Step-by-Step Tutorial on Prezi Basics

01 Double click anywhere to write

When you create a prezi, the canvas is your workspace. You can double-click anywhere on the canvas to add a text box to jot down your key ideas. As your ideas fill the canvas, you can drag it around to create more space.
02 Zoom in to develop your ideas

Once you have added your ideas to the canvas as text, you can zoom in to these ideas to develop them and add more text. You can use the zoom buttons on the right side of the screen or scroll your mouse wheel to zoom in and out.
03 Use the zebra for structure and size

Now, you can arrange your ideas and create hierarchy through size. When you click on one of the text boxes, you'll see the striped transformation zebra, which lets you move (center of the zebra), size and scale (inner ring of the zebra), and rotate objects of any kind (outer ring of the zebra).
04 Add images from the Insert menu

When you're ready to add images, you can simply click Insert on the menu in the upper left, and click on the image you want to use. Once the image appears on the canvas, you can click on the image and use the zebra to move, size, or rotate it. Quick tip: before you get started, collect images you plan to use in your prezi and place them in a folder for easy access.
05 Create your storyline

After you've added and arranged your text and images, it's time to add the storyline or path. Use the zoom buttons or mouse wheel to zoom out, as seeing the "big picture" can help you determine the right path for the ideas in your prezi. Click on Path, and add your storyline by clicking on the parts in the order in which you want to show them. If you want to change the order of your path, you can Delete All and start again or drag the unassigned path ball (that appears between path numbers) to the object you want to show.
06 Click 'Show' to present!

Ready to present? To move into presentation mode, click on Show and step through your prezi with the arrow buttons or arrow keys. In Show, you can click to zoom in and out of your ideas at any point and press the arrows to get back to the path. Publish from Prezi.com with a click After you present, you can publish your prezi by clicking on it from prezi.com/my and checking the box marked Publish. On the Share tab, you can invite others to view or edit your prezi, and obtain an embed code to easily add the prezi to your blog.

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Mixing Mind and Metaphor

About this talk

Aphorism enthusiast and author James Geary waxes on a fascinating fixture of human language: the metaphor. Friend of scribes from Aristotle to Elvis, metaphor can subtly influence the decisions we make, Geary says.

Mixing Mind and Metaphor on Prezi

Mixing Mind and Metaphor - Talk by James Geary, given at TED Global 2009 July. Prezi was co-created by James and Adam Somlai-Fischer.See the talk at http://www.ted.com/talks/james_geary_metaphorically_speaking.html








Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves, and others, how we communicate, learn, discover and invent. But metaphor is a way of thought before it is a way with words.

Now, to assist me in explaining this, I've enlisted the help of one of our greatest philosophers, the reigning king of the metaphorians, a man whose contributions to the field are so great that he himself has become a metaphor. I am, of course, referring to none other than Elvis Presley. (Laughter)

Now, "All Shook Up" is a great love song. It's also a great example of how whenever we deal with anything abstract ideas, emotions, feelings, concepts, thoughts, we inevitably resort to metaphor. In "All Shook Up," a touch is not a touch, but a chill. Lips are not lips, but volcanoes. She is not she, but a buttercup. And love is not love, but being all shook up.

In this, Elvis is following Aristotle's classic definition of metaphor as the process of giving the thing a name that belongs to something else. This is the mathematics of metaphor. And fortunately it's very simple. X equals Y. (Laughter) This formula works whereever metaphor is present.

Elvis uses it, but so does Shakespeare in this famous line from "Romeo and Juliet," Juliet is the sun. Now, here, Shakespeare gives the thing, Juliet, a name that belongs to something else, the sun. But whenever we give a thing a name that belongs to something else, we give it a whole network of analogies too. We mix and match what we know about the metaphor's source, in this case the sun, with what we know about its target, Juliet. And metaphor gives us a much more vivid understanding of Juliet than if Shakespeare had literally described what she looks like.

So, how do we make and understand metaphors? This might look familiar. The first step is pattern recognition. Look at this image. What do you see? Three wayward Pac Men, and three pointy brackets are actually present. What we see, however, are two overlapping triangles. Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns. Second step, conceptual synesthesia.

Now, synesthesia is the experience of a stimulus in once sense organ in another sense organ as well, such as colored hearing. People with colored hearing actually see colors when they hear the sounds of words or letters. We all have synesthetic abilities. This is the Bouba/Kiki test. What you have to do is identify which of these shapes is called Bouba, and which is called Kiki. (Laughter)

If you are like 98 percent of other people, you will identify the round, amoebiod shape as Bouba, and the sharp, spiky one as Kiki. Can we do a quick show of hands? Does that correspond? Okay, I think 99.9 would about cover it. Why do we do that? Because we instinctively find, or create, a pattern between the round shape, and the round sound of Bouba, and the spiky shape, and the spiky sound of Kiki.

And many of the metaphors we use everyday are synesthetic. Silence is sweet. Neckties are loud. Sexually attractive people are hot. Sexually unattractive people leave us cold. Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

Third step is cognitive dissonance. This is the Stroop test. What you need to do here is identify as quickly as possible the color of the ink in which these words are printed. You can take the test now. If you're like most people, you will experience a moment of cognitive dissonance when the name of the color is printed in a differently colored ink. The test shows that we can not ignore the literal meaning of words even when the literal meaning gives the wrong answer.

Stroop tests have been done with metaphor as well. The participants had to identify, as quickly as possible, the literally false sentences. They took longer to reject metaphors as false than they did to reject literally false sentences. Why? Because we cannot ignore the metaphorical meaning of words either.

One of the sentences was, "Some jobs are jails." Now, unless you're a prison guard, the sentence "Some jobs are jails" is literally false. Sadly, it's metaphorically true. And the metaphorical truth interferes with our ability to identify it as literally false. Metaphor matters because it's around us every day, all the time. Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

Pay careful attention the next time you read the financial news. Agent metaphors describe price movements as the deliberate action of a living thing, as in, "The NASDAQ climbed higher." Object metaphors describe price movements as non-living things, as in, "The Dow fell like a brick."

Researchers asked a group of people to read a clutch of market commentaries, and then predict the next day's price trend. Those exposed to agent metaphors had higher expectations that price trends would continue. And they had those expectations because agent metaphors imply the deliberate action of a living thing pursuing a goal. If, for example, house prices are routinely described as climbing and climbing, higher and higher, people might naturally assume that that rise is unstoppable. They may feel confident, say, in taking out mortgages they really can't afford. That's a hypothetical example of course. But this is how metaphor misleads.

Metaphor also matters because it influences decisions by activating analogies. A group of students was told that a small democratic country had been invaded and had asked the U.S. for help. And they had to make a decision. What should they do? Intervene, appeal to the U.N., or do nothing? They were each then given one of three descriptions of this hypothetical crisis. Each of which was designed to trigger a different historical analogy: World War II, Vietnam, and the third was historically neutral.

Those exposed to the World War II scenario made more interventionist recommendations than the others. Just as we can not ignore the literal meaning of words, we can not ignore the analogies that are triggered by metaphor. Metaphor matters because it opens the door to discovery. Whenever we solve a problem, or make a discovery, we compare what we know with what we don't know. And the only way to find out about the latter is to investigate the ways it might be like the former.

Einstein described his scientific method as combinatory play. He famously used thought experiments, which are essentially elaborate analogies, to come up with some of his greatest discoveries. By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.

Now metaphor is ubiquitous, yet it's hidden. But you just have to look at the words around you and you'll find it. Ralph Waldo Emerson described language as "fossil poetry." But before it was fossil poetry language was fossil metaphor. And these fossils still breathe.

Take the three most famous words in all of Western philosophy: "Cogito ergo sum." It is routinely translated as, "I think, therefore I am." But there is a better translation. The Latin word "cogito" is derived from the prefix "co," meaning "together," and the verb "agitare," meaning "to shake." So, the original meaning of "cogito" is to shake together. And the proper translation of "cogito ergo sum" is "I shake things up, therefore I am." (Laughter)

Metaphor shakes things up, giving us everything from Shakespeare to scientific discovery in the process. The mind is a plastic snow dome, the most beautiful, most interesting, and most itself, when, as Elvis put it, it's all shook up. And metaphor keeps the mind shaking, rattling and rolling, long after Elvis has left the building. Thank you very much. (Applause)