Pecha Kucha Blog Spot (for online 15 november 2017 class)

11/1/2017

As before, rather than turning in a traditional printed Top Five, you'll post your Top five to this space--follow the standard Top Five format. What is a little different, is I'm asking you to shape your response around a specific prompt.

Respond to this prompt: In your Top Five Document, identify, based on the reading/viewing, what qualities does an interesting Pecha Kucha have? What qualities does a bad or boring one have?

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Suzanne Chetwynd

11/14/2017 04:41:52 pm

Top Five Document #7

1. Communicate with Emotion – For a successful Pecha Kucha presentation, don’t create a file of facts and figures. That is simply a report. Communication is about getting others to adopt your point of view, and to help them understand why you’re excited, sad, optimistic, or any other emotion you’re feeling. Our brains have two sides, the right side is emotional and the left side is focused on facts. Your presentation should use the screen to talk emotionally through the eyes to the audience’s right brain, and your words can go through the audience’s ears to talk to the left brain.

2. Sell Your Presentation – If everyone in the room had the same belief in the topic your passionate about as you do, you wouldn’t need a presentation. The reason we do presentations is to make a point and sell one or more ideas. If you believe in your idea, sell it. Make your point as hard as you can and get what you came for. Your audience will thank you for it, because deep down, we all want to be sold.

3. Avoid Repetition – When choosing graphics for your slides, use images that reinforce your words, not repeat them. Create slides that demonstrate with emotional proof, that what you’re saying is true not just accurate. This can be done by using professional images instead of graphics that are more character in style to get your point across.

4. Rules to Remember – 20 slides, 20 seconds of narration for each slide, no more than 6 words on a slide (to avoid distraction by the viewer), no fancy transitions between slides, limit the amount of sound effects to a couple, and refrain from using the sound effects that are built into the program.

5. Practice. Practice. Practice. - The best way to stave off nerves and build confidence for speaking in front of a group or when recording your Pecha Kucha is to practice your presentation several times. Be careful not to cram too much information into that short 20 second window and then have to talk rapidly to fit everything in. Experienced Pecha Kucha presenters encourage speakers to practice short pieces like this at least 10 times. Having many rehearsals under your belt will allow you to be comfortable and have fun during your presentation.

11/29/2017 01:43:17 pm

practice. practice. practice.

Savannah Eastman

11/15/2017 12:03:22 pm

Top Five Document #7

1.Communication- Communication between the presenter and the audience is key, which is why power points suck. Power points for presenting are just the presenter reading off of slides, not communicating with the audience like the goal is for presenting. Pecha Kuchas create communication between the presenter and audience where power points end up being a report, which diminishes the communication aspect of presenting. "You don't win with logic. Logic is essential, but without emotion, you're not playing a full deck" (Godin).

2. Reinforce your words, don't just repeat them- Facts are important but not the main goal. As we know full and well by this point in the semester, relating to your audience is key, and facts will not allow you to do that. You can include facts in your presentations, but you need to include realness. Include emotions, and "emotional proof" from your facts, not just data and stats. This makes it real to your audience, not just numbers and data.

3.Details and how to create- A Pecha Kucha is 20 slides, for 20 seconds each. No exceptions. Don't use more than six words per slide, because if you do this, your audience is ignoring your emotional message and your presentation, and reading the words off the slides. ALWAYS hand out any papers for recap with facts and a lot of writing on it (which is okay for handouts) AFTER you present.

4. "A Leave Behind"- Creating a written document for your audience based off of your presentation. This is a good tool and opportunity for you as the presenter to provide your audience with all of the boring stats, numbers and facts. When you start presenting, you can inform your audience that you have a hand out with important notes and take away for them so that they are not ignoring the presentation to write their own notes the whole time.

5. Cue Cards- Creating cue cards for your presentation allows you to stay on track and match your words with the timing of the slides. That way you don't fall behind your slides, or go to fast, and you don’t miss any of your key points.

11/29/2017 01:44:02 pm

With pecha kucha, you don't need cue cards since it is recorded.

Jiayi Zhai

11/15/2017 12:46:27 pm

Top Five Document-#7
1. Concise and clear.
Pecha Kucha is made to communicate with the audience. PowerPoint should help the speaker to communicate with the audience easily. We can write a report instead, which will indeed show more details and give the reader more information to know our project or program comprehensively. But people prefer listening to a presentation for ten minutes to spending three minutes to read a report. It should be concise to give the audience the main idea and avoid long sentences even long paragraphs to make the people feel bored and disappointed about the presentation. However, some PowerPoints are long-winded. People make their PowerPoint teleprompters or reports. Their slides contain every detail of their projects and want them to remember everything you said, which makes the audience feel overwhelming and fear what they will suffer for the next several minutes.
2.Selling and persuasive
Communication is about getting others to adopt our point of view, to help them understand why we're excited. If every one of the audience agrees with our opinion, it is not necessary for us to do a Pecha Kucha. We must make our presentation informative or persuasive. When we make a presentation, we should not just read the words on the slides or speak in the monotones. Show the audience our passion for the topic and interest them in it.

3. Logic and emotional
Logic and emotion are both essential for a good Pecha Kucha. We had better not just make our PowerPoint filled in hard data, complicated graphs, and sound reasoning. Logic is the foundation of a presentation. However, if we want the audience feel interested in it, logic is not enough. Emotional words and images can make the audience feel sympathetic. For example, when we are showing a program aiming at providing service for veterans, we want to show why our program is in need. We can use a photo of the monument on which there are thousands of names of injured and dead veterans rather than the indifferent graphs or statistics. However, when some slides are only full of statistics and graphs, the presentation will be cold and boring.
4. Original and interesting
Third, Pecha Kucha transforms corporate cliché into surprisingly compelling beat-the-clock performance art. The design of the PowerPoint and delivery of the presentation should be an art. We should rule out the old-fashioned background and awkward images to make our slides more original and attractive.
5. Quiet background and great speech skills
When we record our voice for the Pecha Kucha, we should obey the rules of good speech and concern the pitch, speed and emotion. Because the audience cannot see our body language and facial expression, we must try our best to use only voice and slides to express our passion and eager. The delivery of the Pecha Kucha is too fast and cannot show the passion of the speaker. Also, sometimes background sound is noisy. When we record our voice, we must make a choice somewhere quiet and comfortable. Proper emotion and voice help the audience to understand and make our presentation impressive.

Eso Kim

11/15/2017 01:39:12 pm

Top Five Document #7

1. What is Pecha Kucha? It is a presentation methodology in which 20 images are shown for 20 seconds each. It is recommended not to put more than 6-7 words on a slide and any fancy screen conversion effects. Some irrelevant sound effects would make the presentation less professional so those are not recommended as well.

2. What’s the Benefit? Text-heavy slides would take much more time to explain than the allocated 20 seconds, and will also get the audience reading the text rather than giving their undivided attention to the Pecha Kucha presenter. On the other hand, Pecha Kucha keeps presentations fast-paced and concise, as the result the format efficiently keeps the audience’s attention during the entire presentation.

3. Relevant Images. Develop a distinct point for each slide and try to put relevant images. I saw several Pecha-Kuchas from the linked website and found out that some used images that are not so much related to what the speaker was saying. That disturbed me a lot and made me lose interest on that presentation.

4. Supportive Images. Create slides that show the proof of what you are saying. The images you are using on your slides should be a support idea of your assertion. It would be easily done by using professional images instead of “cheesy” images.

5. Be emotional and logical. This type of presentation is based on images. Visual images help to communicate emotionally with audience but since it is a presentation, the ultimate goal is to make them aware of some information you are talking about or persuading your audience to take a specific action. In conclusion, your Pecha Kucha should be an effective tool to communicate with your audience both logically and emotionally.

TONG WU

11/15/2017 02:06:17 pm

Tong Wu
ENGL202-Business Communication
Prof. Torda Lee
November 11, 2017
Top 5 document#7
1. A good PechaKucha is based on good PowerPoint.
PowerPoint is the foundation of a presentation. It is an effective tool to illustrate what you are going to say and what you want your audiences to know during the process of delivering a presentation. Basically, the most important usage of each slide in your PowerPoint is to reflect the bullet points of your verbal content, following with typical images that are vivid and impressive. In well-developed PowerPoint, slides are connected with each other. Remember that every slide doesn’t have to stand on its own. You can use one slide to set up a point and then the next slide to bring it home.
2. Communication is the primary task for a good presentation.
PechaKucha is a remarkable tool because it allows very dense verbal communication. The major goal of your presentation is to communicate with audiences about your attitude and opinion. So it is essential to avoid using PowerPoint as a teleprompter! Reading your slides step by step is a common report, rather than a communicative presentation. Therefore, you should make slides that reinforce your words, not repeat them. Instead of making slides that follow your bullet points, you are supposed to organize the presentation in a convictive way, letting the slides drive the process.
3. Efficient communication is the transfer of emotion.
According to the reading material of bad examples of PowerPoint, communication is about getting others to adopt your point of view, to help them understand why you’re excited. That is to say, an eligible presenter should create an emotional atmosphere to let audience accept the main point of the presentation. Logic is essential but not enough. Interesting PechaKucha includes your personal experiences that are told in a releasing way. Try to make your slides and verbal delivery as easy-to-understand as possible, and then your PechaKucha will be more effective than what it used to be.
4. Slides should be easy to memorize rather than complicated.
A good PechaKucha is supposed to inform audiences clear points of view with a concise heading less than six words in each slide. Too much words on each slide will damage both the image and the heading, by confusing audience of the main point of every slide. Additionally, be sure to make your verbal part match the image during each 20 seconds of every slide. In this way your presentation will make sense.
5. Boring PechaKucha is a product of aimless content.
What we do in a presentation is to allow audience to know and adopt our opinions that they haven’t agreed before. So powerful images and persuasive content is important during the delivery of a presentation. Be confident if you believe your bullet points. Do not confuse audiences with doubt attitude and ambiguous content.

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