PechaKucha is a simple presentation format where you show 20 slides that display for 20 seconds each, so that the presenter has only 6 minutes and 40 seconds in all for his/her presentation.
The name comes from a Japanese term meaning “chatter”. The basic idea is to force the presenter to speak concisely, precisely and clearly by using mainly images.
For this reason, PechaKucha is a great format for presentations at schools or for meetings in offices, in those occasions where conciseness is particularly important.
If you want some tips to realize your personal PechaKucha, read more on http://bit.ly/1cBv9QD or just visit the PechaKucha official site.
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Wow! This is deeply interesting and useful.
It’s a shame I can’t use this Pecha Kucha during my final exam, just when the essay exposition becomes crucial.
In my university, in fact, the vice Chancelor (I mean the ‘Proto-rettore’) has blocked any chance for the students to set-up a proper Power Point presentation. The reason is: “Too many student simply read from the main screen what we can already see”.
In this case the main problem, has ‘geographic roots’. De facto, in my university auditorium (‘aula magna’), the presentation takes place in an opposite format than the ideal one (es. see the various TED speeches arrangements): professors stand sit with a big screen behind their shoulder and the student stand in front of them, just in the middle of the auditorium seats. So that one (even a bit nervous) student could really read all of the text shown!
I couldn’t doubt it was what too many students did…
In my opinion, every university should give a mini-course where everyone is teached to make (successful) presentation.
In that case there also will be less people … yawning while listening to the students essays. A definately point-taking experience both for the listeners and the presenter.
p.s.: Maybe I should simply send a friendly letter to the Vice Chancellor…
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