PechaKucha


 * Strategy ****:** Pecha Kucha
 * Application ****:** Student or Teacher Content Delivery
 * Content Area ****:** Any

=**Description:**= The idea behind Pecha Kucha is to deliver a fast paced, highly visual and informative presentation with Powerpoint. Traditionally, PechaKucha, Japanese for "chit chat" or "chatter," are 20X20, or 20 slides timed to advance automatically after 20 seconds. According to PechaKucha.org, it began in Tokyo in 2003 when young architects got together to pitch ideas. Here's what Wikipedia says about it. The format requires students to break away from merely reading a bulleted powerpoint to the class. Instead, they are challenged to find quality visuals that help them //talk// about the significant aspects their topic.

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 * Here is author Daniel Pink demonstrating the technique... **

=**Notes From the Field**= Mr. Green and I put together a project for his US History classes. The focus was Vietnam and we gave the kids one of five themes: Politics, People, Culture, Media, and Military. They then worked with a group of three, each group member responsible for four slides of the presentation. The assignment and rubric are below and asses students both as a group and individually. The presentations were a challenge for the students, mostly due to the fact that we did not let them include any text on the slides or to use any kind of notes for their presentations. They had to use the image to support 15-20 seconds of information about the Vietnam Era. Topics were intentionally broad so it was up to students to research quality images that had some substance behind them, AND research information to be able to provide detail, AND avoid redundancy with images and ideas.
 * **Recommendations: **
 * Students benefit from time to rehearse. We worked in time for this, but most groups used the time to find images. By far the best presentations were those that rehearsed it with timings.
 * Have students avoid portrait pictures when presenting people…there needs to be something of more visual substance
 * Have a co-teacher or student run the presentation (don't just use the automatic timer) so there is some leeway for adjusting for students who run over or well under the time.
 * Have students avoid "this is a picture of…" in narration
 * Make sure students can justify authenticity of images
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Use Google Presentations to design collaboratively (see resource below), but it was easier to download in Powerpoint for running presentations because of better presenter screen format that includes a timer. To do this from Google, just go to File>Download as PPT. It only takes a second.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Have students use the Notes section in Google Presentation to put their information about each picture. Maybe even include a citation.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Because we were both fairly new to the idea, we designed one to model based on Culture in the 1950s. This was an interesting collaborative process that forced us to discuss what images would best capture our topic, and limit our words (tough for both of us!) to 20 seconds. We used the notes section in Presentation to type notes for our narration as we planned. media type="custom" key="26150718"

=Resources=
 * [[file:VietnamEraPechaKuchaAssignmentandRubric.docx]]
 * [[file:Pecha Kucha Rubric.docx]]\
 * Using Google Presentation media type="custom" key="26151398"

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