[Ailist] Are any of you using Pecha Kucha?

[Madelyn Blair]

John,

Thanks for the link. I watched it. It was all about organizing your  
thinking first through using only pictures. (see my other post) I  
love it when more than one of us finds the key.

Madelyn

Madelyn Blair, Ph.D.
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On Jan 21, 2008, at 2:21 PM, JOHN WATSON wrote:

> 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
>
> John Watson
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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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