Pecha Kucha

Pecha Kucha Presentations

So what is a pecha kucha? In Japanese pecha kucha means "chit chat". This was created in 2003 in Tokyo Japan, and was made to allow people with thoughts to share, to share them publicly. Each thought is expressed through a presentation, and there are strict guidelines for these presentations. The rules are as followed, you must have 20 slides, and they must be shown for 20 seconds each. The presentation must last 6 minutes and 40 seconds. Pecha kucha presentations are not easy to make, but they are effective that they are short and concise. It's not easy to keep your timing for each slide at the amount they are suppose to be, it all depends on the speaker. 

I personally think that the pecha kucha method would work best in businesses, because with businesses if you have a long presentation you are not only wasting your time but other people's time. If you keep everything short and sweet you can get more done and go on with your lives, maybe even finish more so you can get home early. If you used something like the pecha kucha method in schools through education, this would only cause confusion with the students, and a lot of after school help may be needed. Students can't comprehend everything in 20 seconds, although it seems like a long time or good amount of time, it's really not. 

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