1 00:00:00,140 --> 00:00:03,790 Now, if you are giving a presentation and you want to put together a 2 00:00:03,790 --> 00:00:07,060 slide deck, I highly recommend considering the 3 00:00:07,060 --> 00:00:09,740 two biggest apps in the industry today. 4 00:00:09,740 --> 00:00:13,210 You've got PowerPoint and Keynote. 5 00:00:13,210 --> 00:00:15,720 Each one of these has tons of different 6 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:19,280 features that make putting together slide decks pretty nice. 7 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:23,170 Even a mobile version that can help you bring your slide decks with you. 8 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:25,290 Keynote is available 9 00:00:25,290 --> 00:00:28,240 for free on new Macs. 10 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:30,880 I think on older Macs, it's about 20 bucks. 11 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:33,610 And the cost for PowerPoint varies depending on 12 00:00:33,610 --> 00:00:38,100 the Microsoft Office package that you end up getting. 13 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:45,570 Now if you want to try something new however, Prezi at prezi.com is an online 14 00:00:45,570 --> 00:00:48,000 presentation maker that allows you to design 15 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,870 everything online and store it there as well. 16 00:00:50,870 --> 00:00:54,075 Just like Keynote and PowerPoint get lots of features. 17 00:00:54,075 --> 00:00:56,025 And in fact, I wanna sort of kick out 18 00:00:56,025 --> 00:00:58,365 there right now and just do a quick live demo 19 00:00:58,365 --> 00:01:01,550 of a presentation that I threw together real fast just 20 00:01:01,550 --> 00:01:04,160 to give you an idea of what it looks like. 21 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,710 So, again, it's prezi.com. 22 00:01:06,710 --> 00:01:09,304 If we jump into this presentation here, you'll see, 23 00:01:09,304 --> 00:01:11,740 alright, let's have a quick look at this tool. 24 00:01:11,740 --> 00:01:16,070 Now, one of the first things you're gonna see is that it's got really cool 25 00:01:16,070 --> 00:01:17,600 animation effects. 26 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:23,950 It's as if all the slides exist on a, on a space right there instead of just the 27 00:01:23,950 --> 00:01:29,060 classic, you know, here's a slide, here's the next slide, here's the next slide. 28 00:01:29,060 --> 00:01:32,030 It gives it a nice physical effect to it. 29 00:01:32,030 --> 00:01:34,800 Now in addition to the cool animation effects, they have 30 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:38,510 lots of templates just like the other tools, Keynote and PowerPoint. 31 00:01:38,510 --> 00:01:41,860 They have different color schemes, and you can modify almost 32 00:01:41,860 --> 00:01:44,710 everything within the the template. 33 00:01:46,190 --> 00:01:48,680 Online is, you know, where you can find this tool. 34 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:52,270 You can create and store these presentations online. 35 00:01:52,270 --> 00:01:56,200 You can even embed YouTube videos and, you know, this is cool. 36 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:01,100 I'm not gonna play this here, but it'll start playing and, you know, it's a nice 37 00:02:01,100 --> 00:02:06,310 little extra when you have some of that multimedia that you wanna feature. 38 00:02:06,310 --> 00:02:07,210 But I know sometimes 39 00:02:07,210 --> 00:02:13,350 in, in older tools, it's a little clugey and maybe it might suck up some 40 00:02:13,350 --> 00:02:19,820 of the bandwidth and, and computing power on whatever device you've got. 41 00:02:19,820 --> 00:02:21,920 To be able to pull that stuff from YouTube is pretty nice. 42 00:02:23,250 --> 00:02:28,210 So prezi.com, that's something that I recommend to all of you if 43 00:02:28,210 --> 00:02:32,450 you are doing presentations or, or if you anticipate that you might do 44 00:02:32,450 --> 00:02:35,810 a presentation some time in the future. It's worth checking out. 45 00:02:35,810 --> 00:02:42,010 It's free to use and there are some paid options as well, depending on your needs. 46 00:02:42,010 --> 00:02:46,250 So PowerPoint, Keynote, and Prezi. Give those a look.