A couple of years ago, I found myself teaching a section of a class that mandated a PowerPoint presentation. (That is, to keep my section aligned with the others, I had to require such a presentation.

“Students, please remember to monotonously read every slide word-for-word when you present to the class.” Said no teacher ever. As I prepare for my presentation this week at the Florida Educational ...

Why do it? Pecha Kucha presentations put specific time and image constraints on presentations to help students make concise, oral-visual presentations that are designed to engage the audience (and ...

Howard Mall had exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds to talk. With 50 people looking on, Mall zipped through his PowerPoint presentation called “20 Ideas You Can Steal,” which included crude drawings of ...

On an outdoor patio in Kampala, observers lounge in the near-darkness, watching as an image is projected on a bare white sheet slung between two trees. In Reykjavik, a spellbound audience fills a ...

Meetings, and the presentations that drive them, are boring, slow and rarely effective. Walk the halls of any Fortune 500 corporation right now and you'll find many rooms occupied by people with ...

Pecha kucha-- pronounced pet-shah coot-shah-- is an onomatopoeic Japanese phrase meaning "the sound of casual chatter." But for a small but growing band of international designers, artists and ...

Every solution you’ll hear about during this series of six presentations works to counter systemic racism. You’ll hear directly from a researcher advocating to reform the child welfare system that ...

I also liked the fact that Pecha Kucha forces the presenter to actually know what they are talking about and puts a conversational (“chit-chat-y” if you will) tone in their presentation (you can watch ...