Pecha Kucha

Today I learned how to make a Pecha Kucha.  Pecha Kucha (literally "chit chat" in Japanese) is the art of creating a concise PowerPoint presentation.  Each Pecha Kucha is 20 slides long and 20 seconds in length. Pecha Kucha forces presenters to "get to the point" on each slide as they only have 20 seconds to present it.  It also forces the presenter to be more creative.  The idea is to get rid of bullet points and boring slides. They are our enemy

Here is an interesting video on how Pecha Kucha changed a man's life.

I found this project to be much more difficult than I anticipated.  #1 I tried to make my slides as visually interesting as possible.  Where I probably could have typed up something in 20 minutes, it took me a couple of hours to get all my media in order. #2 I found the 20 seconds per slide very restrictive, meaning that I could have easily done the show in the allotted 6:40 however, I would have liked to spend less time on some slides and more on the others.  All in all, the assignment did force us to think and become more creative.  I don't think that I would use this restrictive format for a class that I would teach. I will take the message of being more creative in my slides to heart.

Creating a Pecha Kucha is most closely is aligned with ISTE-3 design and develop digital learning age experiences and assessments