What is a Pecha Kucha Presentation?
This is the Japanese word for conversation or “chit chat.” Created by two architects in Tokyo who were tired of bad PowerPoint presentations, Pecha Kucha is designed to force speakers to prepare concise, creative, and practiced PowerPoint presentations.
Designing a Pecha Kucha presentation motivates speakers to think about their subjects in very different ways and to utilize the higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy (analyze, create, and evaluate).
What are the characteristics of Pecha Kucha?
- A presentation is created using presentation software that can be set to automatically advance slides.
- Presenters are only allowed 20 slides and those slides must automatically advance every 20 seconds.
- Presentations should never be longer than 6 minutes 40 seconds.
- The presentation depends on images and graphics and little to no text.
- If text is used at all it should be used as a visual sign post, very brief, and highly readable (not less than 28 font)
- Presentations are expected to have structure, including an introduction and conclusion.
- Presentations are expected to be polished, professional, and engaging. Because of the time constraints, the auto-advancing slides, and the format, speakers should spend more time planning and practicing their presentations than in a regular type of presentation.
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