On Friday 8th April 2011 at the FriTumo session, the IT Team gave a short presentation to the rest of the Tumo teams. The idea was to give a brief outline of what the IT team does at Tumo in approximately 10 minutes. Originally I had hoped to have something like an inspirational Ted Talk, but with preparation time lacking it turned out to be a much simpler ‘Introduction to IT’ for the others.
I took this chance to try a new presentation creation tool I had seen back at the ArmNet 2010 Awards, called Prezi (found freely available at prezi.com). It allows for zooming and highly interactive interlinked presentations. The learning curve was very small and I managed to get the whole presentation put together within an hour.
Tumo T Talk on Prezi
My biggest complaint with Prezi was adjusting the text size of different parts, I have a habit of zooming in and out with the scroll wheel on the mouse and every time I did the text size would change for a new text object. In defence of Prezi developers, they have done this text sizing intentionally to organise the hierarchy titles, sub titles, body text etc.
Still with a few prepared graphics and well thought out flow, I see Prezi beating MS Powerpoint as a general presentation tool. The free account allows 100 Mb of uploads which is fine as long as you prepare the images in advance. I very much intend to use the online based software again although It’s going to require a bit of a fresh uptake to move away from the structured slide format which has been ingrained into me over the years by Powerpoint. Overall the audience enjoyed the brief presentation and liked the swirly animation that Prezi does so well (naturally the Turkish delight also helped).
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