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LF1 Logging in and eSafety

1. Go to prezi.com and log in with your school email
2. If you have forgotten your Prezi password, follow the forgotten password instructions
3. DO NOT enter your full name or add any personal details to your profile.
4. MAKE SURE you keep your profile and prezis private.
5. By using your school email, you are bound by your ICT agreement that you have signed
6. You are not permitted to use your school email to sign up to anything else.

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LF2 Evaluate other people’s Prezis

1. Look at THREE example prezis – at least one EDU Prezi.
   1. Here are the winners of the 2014 Prezi competition
   2. 2015
   3. 2016
   4. 2017
2. What makes them effective?
3. What is not effective?
4. Look at the Computing colours below for Prezis

• Red
  • use a template in Prezi
  • use some tools
• Orange
  • change font, colour, size, position
• Yellow
  • include pictures, shapes
• Green
  • attention to detail – lining up, consistent style
  • background music
  • text on appropriate background
• Blue
  • deliberate choices of layout, style
  • use/edit pathways
  • insert hyperlink to website
  • give references to where you got your info
• Purple
  • critically reflect on work to improve it
  • show thoughts in learning conversation on j2e page (I chose …. because…. I changed ….. because….)

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LF3 Planning a Prezi

1. Choose a topic from below
   1. A habitat (for example from the Forbidden Kingdoms topic)
   2. An wild animal (for example from the Forbidden Kingdoms topic)
   3. An environmental issue, eg pollution, poaching, plastic, landfill,…
2. Make a new j2e5 page for collecting ideas – save as “Prezi ideas”
   1. Title
   2. Questions/subtitles/subtopics
   3. Journey. story
   4. Ideas for design
      1. colour schemes
      2. background pictures
      3. shapes
      4. fonts
   5. Zooming ideas
   6. Facts, content – keep it simple and in your own words

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LF4 Setting up a new Prezi

1. • Share your Prezi with me – help video
   • Text
     • Titles, subtitles, text
     • A few, well chosen fonts, colours
   • Images
     • Labelled for non-commercial use
     • Background images (careful with text on top of different colours)
     • Crop/resize images
   • Background music
     • Add music from www.incompetech.com
       • When you’ve found piece you like – click “download as mp3”
       • Go back to Prezi – insert – add background music – look in downloads folder
       • Don’t forget to include credits for the music (copy text below)
   • Paths and hyperlinks
     • Add a hyperlink to another webpage
     • Make sure the path includes all of your content
   • Think carefully about colours
     • eg text colour that stands out against the background
     • not putting text on varied backgrounds

How do I place a credit for this music in my project?

Title Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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LF 5 Seeking improvement

1. Can you use it collaboratively, ie share it? Work on it at the same time? Comment?
2. Are there eSafety considerations?
3. Can you find help topics/videos?

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LF5 Embedding Prezi into j2e5 page

Here’s how to embed your Prezi in your j2e page:

• In Prezi, click “present”
• Underneath the Prezi, click “Embed”
• Copy the code by pressing the button
• Open you j2e “Prezi” page
• Click on the “video/sound/embed” button then on the top option
• Paste the Prezi embed code into the box
• Click on your page to drop the Prezi there
• Place and resize your Prezi on your page and save

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