When I created my presentation for Alumas Wałdamala, I had to use a special keyboard, Kwak’wala U’mista, to properly spell the words in this sentence. Of course Prezi does not have this as one of the fonts available.  Despite loading the keyboard onto my desktop, Prezi would not allow me to type in the words using the Kwak’wala U’mista keyboard.  I typed the words into Microsoft Word then I used my Snipping Tool to select the words.  I saved the selection as a pdf then I inserted the words using the Insert tab in Prezi.  It seemed to be a lot of work which I completed without using a tutorial but rather prior knowledge.  Luckily the template that I was using had a white background since the background is included in the snipped item.

I started to think about other specialized fonts that I might want to use when using Prezi for classroom presentations.  Since I am a math and science instructor, I like to use MathType since it is much easier to create math lessons then using the standard keyboard.  Although I was unable to find tutorials regarding specialized fonts, the answer to my question is a simple Google search away.  Or even better, someone produced a prezi using MathType in it.  The presenter explained that new version of MathType has a prezi translator as part of its programming.  What a great idea!

Lastly, I felt limited by the standard font selection when I used a template.  You can select other fonts by clicking on the template button but you are only given a triplet of fonts that cannot be interchanged.  Perhaps that is a good thing since those of us who are not so creative may put fonts together which have no business being placed beside each other.

Overall, Prezi is a user friendly program which allows users to integrate other fonts easily.

P.S.  WordPress is not as friendly because it did not recognize the fonts I imported.  As a result, I had to use the standard keyboard to improvise and make the best corrections possilbe

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