{"id":179,"date":"2009-04-20T14:34:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T21:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2009-04-20T14:34:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T21:34:35","slug":"zoom-in-and-out-of-presentations-with-prezi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/zoom-in-and-out-of-presentations-with-prezi\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoom in and out of presentations with Prezi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-181\" title=\"prezi-logo1\" src=\"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/prezi-logo1.png\" alt=\"prezi-logo1\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" \/>Prezi<\/a> is a presentation maker (still in beta) that avoids the standard linear slideshow model. Instead, you can zoom in and out of one big presentation, hopping between ideas however you want. <a href=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/966\/view\/\">Here&#8217;s an example of Prezi in action<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I like the ability to escape the rigid structure of the PowerPoint presentation, and this seems like an answer to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/tufte\/powerpoint\">Edward Tufte&#8217;s criticisms<\/a> of the pedantic linearity of PowerPoint. But the free version has a 100 MB storage limit, is not embeddable, comes watermarked with the Prezi logo, and stores your presentation online. You can purchase premium versions, but I&#8217;m not sure many people who already have PowerPoint or Keynote installed will shell out.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, I&#8217;m so anal about orchestrating presentations that I don&#8217;t like to leave room for any deviation. I know, it&#8217;s not very Tufte-ian, but I&#8217;ve seen too many people left totally speechless after a software glitch. So while I&#8217;d play around with Prezi in class, I think I&#8217;ll wait &#8217;til it&#8217;s totally stable and more prevalent to use it for a big presentation.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5219662\/prezi-makes-a-zooming-map-of-your-presentations\">Lifehacker<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prezi is a presentation maker (still in beta) that avoids the standard linear slideshow model. Instead, you can zoom in and out of one big presentation, hopping between ideas however you want. Here&#8217;s an example of Prezi in action. I like the ability to escape the rigid structure of the PowerPoint presentation, and this seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[51,330],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools","tag-presentations","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}