Prezi/Keynote Audio Files

So today we were working on our multimedia presentations.  For the most part, they are going just fine.  The biggest hurdle has been adding the audio to both Prezi's and Keynotes.  Our first work arounds for each was to send the audio file (Garage Band) to the class Youtube account.  When you do this if you don't make it public then the students can't pick it up themselves to add to their Prezi's.  Again, by making it public they are now accessable by anyone, anywhere.  This may not be a concern except that some of our student's names are on them.  I would highly recommend that students only use their first name and last initial if the name is needed.  The other option is for the teacher to be logged in and as students finish change the public setting to private.  (I will probably do this tomorrow unless Gail wants me to do it sooner.)


Once the files are in Youtube then you can add them to both Prezi and Keynote (as a hyperlink).  Again you have issues.  First, in Prezi if you make it a path stop it is its own visual.  You can't set the audio to play while the prezi is playing (until I figure out how to do this as an auto play), although you can keep the audio separate from the path and play both at the same time.  In Keynote on the iPad2 I can't find a way to get the audio file to be embedded in the slides, rather you have to link it to a word or picture and then when you touch it, it opens up a separate internet screen to play it. 

So here is the real solution now...after time playing and researching....

If students want the visuals and audio to play at the same time create this in iMovie and then export it to YouTube for insertion into the Prezi or export it to the Camera roll for inserting into Keynote.  Now when you go to a slide or create a path the audio and visuals will be lined up.  For both ideas you might want to consider making short mini-movies to scatter throughout the path; however, if you feel a longer movie would work better consider making your whole presentation in iMovie rather than Keynote or Prezi.

What I learned from this process is that you really need to know what you want your presentation to look like and then pick the presentation tool that is designed to fit this type of presentation.  Sorry kids....but planning is super important!  Hence the reason you need to have your script and story line created and well thought out ahead of time!