Pecha Kucha

Your third major assignment for the semester is a field work group project that will culminate in a pecha kucha presentation to the entire class. A pecha kucha presentation is a PowerPoint presentation of 20 slides that stay on screen for just 20 seconds each. The point is to limit yourself to about 6 minutes and 40 seconds of talking and to emphasize the visual over the textual in your slides. In other words, you do not read from your slides (that's boring), but rather you present images that enhance and illustrate what you have to say.

I searched for the meaning of the word pecha kucha and learned that it comes from a Japanese term meaning chatter. The format was created by a couple of Tokyo-based architects: Apparently architects do a lot of presenting and tend to talk too long, so they wanted a presentation format that would force speakers to be more concise and give everyone a chance to speak and share their work. To learn more about pecha kucha, visit http://www.pecha-kucha.org/ where you can also view pecha kucha presentations. If you're wondering how to pronounce pecha kucha, watch the short video.