It's the bane of students, business people and even the military: If you've ever yawned through a slideshow, you're probably familiar with that dreaded malady of modern times, known as "Death by ...

Pecha Kucha, Japanese for “chit chat,” is the new communication style of telling a story using exactly 20 slides, for exactly 20 seconds each, for exactly 6 minutes, 40 seconds of presentation time.

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 ...

Pecha kucha-- pronounced pet-shah coot-shah-- is an onomatopoeic Japanese phrase meaning "the sound of casual chatter." But for a small but growing band of international designers, artists and ...

One the absolute highlights of my year last year, was participating in Pecha Kucha Dallas. Pecha Kucha (pronounced pechachka), Japanese for chit chat, is a lecture format that began in 2003 in Japan ...

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.

“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 ...

The concept for Pecha Kucha is simple: Speakers share ideas using 20 slideshow images that automatically change every 20 seconds. There's no stopping and no do-overs, so every presentation is exactly ...

Over the years, the Tel Aviv edition of Pecha Kucha has become the largest internationally and has hosted an assortment of artists from a wide range of fields. If you could capture the Israeli ...

Explain what Pecha Kucha is to students, but feel free to alter the style for beginners. For example, you might want to allow minimal words on slides with images at first like I did, or you might ...