Pecha Kucha<\/p>\n
For those of you who are not familiar with this method, it’s a presentation format that involves 20 slides (powerpoint usually) delivered sequentially, with 20 seconds allowed per. The idea, I believe is to cut the fluff out of your presentations and get succinct points over in the allowed audible whitespace. Okay, I was pretty hesitant about the whole idea as I have developed my whole teaching pedagogy around not having a class full of students locked on me for 6 odd minutes while I deliver banking style wisdom to fill their empty cups. But, it wasn’t so bad after all; though 6 minutes is an eternity from the presenters point of view, staying on point makes it sail quite quickly from the audience point of view. My sage advice on the topic:<\/p>\n
2. Know your topic – Obvious, yes, but if you haven’t completed step 1, this could potentially save you from running out of the room crying.<\/p>\n
3. Don’t focus on your weaknesses – Although not everyone will agree with me on this point, a presentation in this format is all about confidence, so wear comfortable shoes and play to your strengths…whatever they may be.<\/p>\n
4. Don’t have 7 cups of coffee immediately before – Enough said.<\/p>\n
Will I use this presentation format in the future? Possibly. I can see the attention grabbing value, and it is short and succinct enough to hold even the most attentively challenged of us for 6 and 40, provided\u00a0you don’t have a voice like snufalufagas.<\/span><\/p>\n Quick summary:<\/p>\n Hook potential – high<\/p>\n content density – moderate<\/p>\n power point busy-ness factor – low<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stay tuned with bated breath for my review of PK #2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pecha Kucha For those of you who are not familiar with this method, it’s a presentation format that involves 20 slides (powerpoint usually) delivered sequentially, with 20 seconds allowed per. The idea, I believe is to cut the fluff out of your presentations and get succinct points over in the allowed audible whitespace. Okay, I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2598908],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-long-and-dusty-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/marktech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/marktech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/marktech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/marktech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/marktech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/marktech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/marktech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/marktech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/marktech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/marktech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}