[Ailist] Are any of you using Pecha Kucha?

[JOHN WATSON]

Gary

I have not seen it live, but I did track down an example on facebook, and I found it engaging, perhaps because of the subject matter and the fact that he did not use bullet points.  The most memorable presentation I have attended Iwas about use of imaging by  Gareth Morgan, he got through something like 120+ OHPs in an hour, (yes, it was a while ago)  yet only 4 had words on them and most of those words were muddled - to make the point you don't need words on a screen to tell a story.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-09/st_pechakucha

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----- Original Message ----
From: Gary Lear <discuss at rds-net.com>
To: Stephanie West Allen <stephanie at allen-nichols.com>; ailist at lists.business.utah.edu
Sent: Monday, 21 January, 2008 6:12:38 PM
Subject: RE: Possible spam: [Ailist] Are any of you using Pecha Kucha?

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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