[Ailist] Are any of you using Pecha Kucha?

[Loretta Rose]

Your post caught my attention, Gary, because it communicates a strong gut
reaction! I tend to be in the same league when it comes to powerpoints, but
I also wondered whether you had seen anyone use/do pecha kucha? When a
friend introduced the idea to me, I hated it, but after reading an article
in Wired magazine and watching the sample pecha kucha, I felt quite
different (check out
<http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-09/st_pechakucha>
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-09/st_pechakucha). The
presentation doesn't have a rushed feel, but it is short and sweet, and
focused on visuals, not text, as good powerpoints should be. Amongst the
many things I dislike about powerpoint, what I object to most, is using them
when people are (finally!) sitting face-to-face, rather than doing
interpersonal & interactive things that can't be done virtually
(powerpoints, on the other hand, can be used to great effect for teams or
groups to communicate virtually). It seems to me that powerpoints belong
more appropriately in that virtual domain than in the face-to-face one. But
if people insist on having powerpoints when they're face-to-face, pecha
kucha could be used to limit the time they get, and to get people thinking
about what they really need to present, get creative, be more visual...I
think it's something I'd like to try out with some of my powerpoint-wedded
groups. I'd be very interested to know about the experiences of others who
are using pecha kucha!

Best,
 
Loretta Rose
Coracle Consulting
coracle at bserv.com
 
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Stephanie,

I think this is a horrible idea and only encourages the continued misuse of
PowerPoint.  Rather than using fewer slides that are content rich, this
approach is encouraging the continued use of more slides with less
information. 

I can easily talk for 20 minutes on a single slide from some of the slides
that I've created, and I'm not talking about slides that have so much stuff
jammed on it that you can't read them, either (some other time we can
discuss the "5 x 7 rule" that seems to be violated all the time).  20
seconds for a slide is ridiculous!  If there is that little information on a
slide then you probably don't need a slide. 

As a participant, I can't imagine being forced to watch 20 slides in 6
minutes and 40 seconds.  That, in itself, would totally turn me off.  If
this is being done online I've probably zoned out and I'm off checking other
stuff, such as e-mail, because I've not had an opportunity to study the
information and I've given up on trying to follow the presentation, or the
information is so redundant that I don't need to see it in the first place.
I'd go bonkers if I had to listen to an hour of 6 minute and 40 second
presentations!!!

Trying to limit bad presentations in time and number of slides doesn't make
them any less of a bad presentation.  The amount of time spent on a
presentation should be based on the amount of information needing to be
conveyed and its importance, not dictated by software.  We also need to
teach people that we don't need a slide for every single thing we talk
about.

I believe that we should be focusing on helping people to do better
presentations, not in trying to limit the amount of time spent on bad
presentations that are still bad.

Anyway, those are my thoughts.

Make a Great Day!
 
Gary Lear, President & CEO
Inscape Certified DiSC Trainer
 
Resource Development Systems LLC
Managing the Human Side of Business (sm) 
 
gelear at rds-net.com   www.ResourceDevelopmentSystems.com

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