This document is a guide on how to use Prezi, a presentation platform that allows for interactive and creative presentations instead of traditional slides. It covers essential lessons on writing and editing text, inserting media, creating shapes and frames, and editing presentation paths. By following this guide, users can effectively create and visualize their own Prezi presentations.

1. HOW TO USE PREZI
Daniel Mejia and Juan Francisco Vallejo

2. INTRODUCTION TO PREZI
Prezi is a presentations platform that allows you to present information in a more creative
and interactive manner, being able to move around in different directions following a path
made by you. It replaces the linear, traditional slide system with a more interactive
presenting interface. In this guide you will learn the basics of Prezi and be able to do your
own presentations.

3. GETTING STARTED
Lesson 1: Text, Writing and themes
Writing, editing text
Change the theme of your Prezi and its design
Lesson 2: Inserting images and media
Insert Images
Insert videos and other kinds of media
Lesson 3: Figures and shapes
Draw frames and shapes
Draw arrows
Lesson 4: Making a path for your presentation
Edit the path of your presentation
View your finalized presentation

4. LESSON 1
 In this lesson we will cover the very basics of Prezi, how to add text, edit text and
how to implement a preset theme to your presentation to make it look the way it
best suits you and your audience.
Writing and
editing text
Change the
theme of your
Prezi and its
design

5. LESSON 2
 This lesson will teach you how to insert images to decorate your presentation.
Once you understand how this is done, you will be able to insert other media such
as videos and Power Point presentations.
Insert images
to your Prezi
Insert videos
and other
kinds of
media

6. LESSON 3
 This lesson will teach you how to add shapes to your presentation and frames to
surround your information and give emphasis to it. Also, you will learn to draw
arrows to give your presentation a planned path for later lessons and for the
movement of your presentation
Draw shapes
and frames
Draw arrows

7. LESSON 4
 In this lesson you will learn the last aspects of Prezi, which will make your
presentation really look like it´s a Prezi and you will learn to visualize your
finalized presentation
Edit the path
of your
presentation
View your
finished
presentation

8. WRITING AND EDITING TEXT
 Prezi is a very interactive tool, you might notice that you move around by clicking
and dragging the background.
 If you click anywhere, a text box will appear to which you can write.

9. WRITING AND EDITING TEXT
 Once you are done typing and you want to edit that text again, you just hover
your mouse over it and a blue frame will appear, go ahed and click it to access the
edit function

10. WRITING AND EDITING TEXT
 You click on the edit button and see the basic option for text editing, the styles,
bold, size, color among other things.
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11. CHANGE THE THEME OF YOUR PREZI AND
ITS DESIGN
 When you create a new Prezi presentation you get something like this, which
allows you to choose a premade theme for your presentation

12. CHANGE THE THEME OF YOUR PREZI AND
DESIGN
 Once you have selected it, your presentation will have a custom theme, although
you can switch the color combinations so that it matches your like.

13. CHANGE THE THEME OF YOUR PREZI AND
DESIGN
 This will change all the colours that are in your presentation, editing the colour of
shapes, text, frames and all the components in your presentation
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14. INSERT IMAGES
 If you want to insert any image, click on the insert button and click image, if you
want you can download any images that are on the computer or you just search
them on google. After you find your image you just click on it an automatically
appears on your prezi.

15. INSERT VIDEOS AND OTHER MEDIA
 To insert a YouTube video you just copy the link from the video and paste it in the
chart

16. DRAW FRAMES AND SHAPES
 Frames are shapes which allow you to insert things inside them, like text, images
and videos. It´s a good way to organize your presentation and make it easy to
move around later on when you want to do your path

17. DRAW FRAMES AND SHAPES

18. DRAW FRAMES AND SHAPES
 Inside frames you can change elements inside, but you can also move them all as
whole. This makes frames extremely useful.
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19. DRAW ARROWS
 Arrows are good for marking the movement of your presentation, show the path of things
and connect frames and text. They are very easy to manipulate as you will see in the
following video
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20. EDIT THE PATH OF YOUR PRESENTATION
 The path is the movement that your presentation will follow, it allows you to put
the things that go first and the succession of the presentation. You can put arrows
like we saw in the last lesson to make your path more predictable and logical.
Please watch the following video to learn how to use paths. The path can be
followed using the arrow keys. You can also add fade animations to text and
elements inside of your frames during the path.
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21. EDIT THE PATH OF YOUR PRESENTATION

22. VIEW YOUR FINISHED PRESENTATION
 After you have done your presentation, you can download it, present it remotely
on the web, and send the link to other people so they can play it online as well.
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23. VIEW YOUR FINALIZED PRESENTATION