Thursday, March 4, 2010

Pecha-Kucha Presentation style

I just recently read about this presentation style and found it quite interesting.
It consists of a tight restriction, 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide, 6 minutes 40 seconds in total The visuals on slides are only to support the ideas in the presentation, but not to list the points. So it comes out more of a speech than a slide by slide presentation.

More info in the following links:

What is Pecha-Kucha?
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/what

official website ( why would a presentation style have an official website... I don't know. But it looks almost like a cult now...
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/

Some examples: (around 6:40 each)
http://vimeo.com/5111955
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NZOt6BkhUg
Search for pecha kucha and you can see a lot of it..

It may be an interesting thing to play with our higher level students or any class you want them to do presentation.. Food for thought!