Prezi

What Is Prezi?

We've all sat through boring slide shows. You might have not-so-fond memories of a particular professor or teacher's monotonous PowerPoint presentations. But presentations don't have to be boring. If you want to make interesting presentations, Prezi is a program that can definitely help.

Prezi allows users to work in a more intuitive and free form manner than some other presentation software. When you start a new presentation with Prezi, you can simply click anywhere on the 'canvas' to write down your basic ideas. You can organize your ideas however you like. After you get some basic ideas down, you can zoom in to each one individually to add detail. You can add images from your hard drive to the presentation, and you can organize your ideas using 'frames,' which allow you to draw a shape around things you want to group together.

The means of organizing the flow of your presentation is managed through the 'path' function. This is a really simple way of allowing users to organize a flow on a canvas that isn't necessarily set up to be linear. To determine the order of operations in your presentation, you simply click on the groups or items in the order you want them to appear. The path tool draws arrows between these items, and numbers each item as you go along. When you make your presentation, using arrow buttons (or your computer's arrow keys) guides you along the path you created. Zooming in is as simple as clicking on a certain item.

Key Features

• You can directly upload an image to use for your graphic on the platform.
• The stock image library has to be pre-loaded to choose from images to use for your banner.
• You can export files as different file types to save your image as different types of files.
• There are ad sets that can duplicate and save your design as an ad set.
• There is a large font selection to choose from to layer over your graphic.
• Prezi gives you tools to help the presentation experience by including features such as voice-over narration and a presenter-only view with notes and annotations.
• There is also a cloud-based version of the platform and an Open Source PowerPoint alternative.

Pricing

Prezi has various pricing plans for individual and business needs, and they are listed below.

Basic

Basic: Free of cost. In this plan, you can create, share, and store beautiful visual content online that anyone can see.

Plus: Costs $15 per month. This is great for more visual content power.*

Individual

Standard: Costs $5 per month and it is for personal use.

Plus: The cost is $15 per month and it is for expert visual communicators.*

Premium: Costs $59 per month and it is for business professionals. It has all the features of Plus, including; powerful analytics and advanced online training.

Students & Educators

Plus: Costs $3 per month and it is for students and educators.*

Teams: The cost is customized and it is for educators and administrators. It has all the features of EDU Plus, along with powerful analytics and collaboration tools.

Business

Plus: Costs $15 per month and it’s for business individuals. You can create beautiful visual content.*

Premium: Cost is $59 per month and it is for business professionals. It has all the features of Plus, including; powerful analytics and advanced online training.

Teams: The cost is customized and it is for teams and enterprises. The features it gives allow; to get your team up and running fast.

What Are Its Pros and Cons?

Overall, this is a really simple way to make customized presentations. To me, one of Prezi's biggest drawbacks is the fact that free accounts cannot be made private. However, the program makes up for that a bit by offering perks to current students and teachers. The presentation system developed by Prezi is innovative and visually interesting.

Prezi's interface is among its best features. It's simple and very cleanly designed, and everything you need is within easy access on the canvas screen. The mechanism you use to move text, called the 'transformation zebra' (presumably because of its stripes), is the same one you use to scale and change the orientation of the text. The zebra is also used to perform the same functions on any images you add. Rather than having to continually revisit a drop-down menu to make minute changes, you use the same main function menu and the zebra to do the bulk of the work on your presentation.