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 ...

“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 ...

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.

During a pecha kucha presentation (also referred to as 20x20), the speaker shows the audience 20 auto-advancing PowerPoint slides and discusses each one for 20 seconds. The purpose is to swiftly cover ...

Six minutes and 40 seconds. Presenters each will have exactly that amount of time to get their points across this Saturday as the Vintage Theater hosts Pecha Kucha Night Scranton. Japanese for ...

Photo: Yama Let us now bullet-point our praise for Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, two Tokyo-based architects who have turned PowerPoint, that fixture of cubicle life, into both art form and competitive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...