How to make a PechaKucha presentation for class [for students]
Summary
TLDRThis video explains the Pecha Kucha presentation style, a unique format originating in Japan. It uses 20 slides with 20 seconds per slide to share stories or ideas efficiently. The video offers tips for creating effective presentations, focusing on simplicity, visual impact, and storytelling. It also highlights the importance of practice and provides steps for setting up Pecha Kucha in Google Slides, PowerPoint, and on the Pecha Kucha website. The video emphasizes how Pecha Kucha helps avoid monotonous presentations and encourages creativity in delivering information.
Takeaways
- 📊 Pecha Kucha is a creative presentation style developed in Japan that uses 20 slides, each shown for 20 seconds.
- 🖼️ The format emphasizes simplicity, with image-based slides and minimal text, allowing the speaker to tell a story.
- ⏳ The time constraint may feel rushed at first, but with practice, it becomes a fun way to share ideas effectively.
- 🧠 Speakers should be familiar enough with the content to talk naturally without reading from a script.
- 📖 It's important to outline your ideas before creating the presentation, focusing on how to best convey your message with visuals.
- 🏞️ Use fair-use image resources like Unsplash and Pixabay to find engaging visuals for your slides.
- 🎤 Practicing with a 20-second interval timer helps ensure that the content fits within the time limits for each slide.
- 👥 In group presentations, divide the slides into larger sections for each person instead of alternating slide by slide to avoid confusion.
- 🛠️ Google Slides, PowerPoint, and the Pecha Kucha website can all be used to create these presentations, with specific settings for auto-advancing slides.
- 💡 Pecha Kucha helps presenters focus on clear storytelling, which improves engagement and keeps the audience interested.
Q & A
What is a Pecha Kucha presentation?
-Pecha Kucha is a unique presentation format developed in Japan, designed to convey ideas and stories through a series of 20 slides, each displayed for exactly 20 seconds. This format encourages presenters to keep their points concise and use images rather than text-heavy slides.
Why was the Pecha Kucha presentation style developed?
-The Pecha Kucha style was developed to provide a more engaging and creative alternative to traditional PowerPoint presentations, helping presenters avoid lengthy and overly detailed slides and instead focus on storytelling and clear communication.
How many slides are used in a Pecha Kucha presentation, and how long is each slide shown?
-A Pecha Kucha presentation uses 20 slides, and each slide is displayed for exactly 20 seconds.
What is the main challenge presenters face when using the Pecha Kucha format?
-The main challenge is timing. Since each slide is limited to 20 seconds, presenters must practice conveying their ideas clearly without feeling rushed, ensuring they can communicate effectively within the short timeframe.
What type of images should be used in a Pecha Kucha presentation?
-The images should be simple, attention-grabbing, and directly related to the message being conveyed. The goal is to complement the spoken narrative rather than distract the audience or provide excessive visual information.
Why should presenters avoid using a lot of text in a Pecha Kucha presentation?
-Presenters should avoid using too much text because the Pecha Kucha format is focused on storytelling and visuals. The audience is meant to listen to the presenter’s story and ideas rather than reading slides. Complex text can also detract from the visual flow and make it harder to keep up with the pacing.
What are the recommended steps to prepare a Pecha Kucha presentation?
-The recommended steps are: first, outline your ideas and structure your story; next, choose relevant images for each slide; then create simple and visually engaging slides; and finally, practice presenting to ensure your speech aligns with the 20-second timing for each slide.
How can presenters ensure smooth transitions and coordination in group Pecha Kucha presentations?
-In group presentations, it's best to assign specific sections to each person rather than alternating every slide. This helps reduce transition time and ensures that each speaker has a clear understanding of their part, leading to a smoother overall presentation.
What are some tips for practicing a Pecha Kucha presentation?
-Some tips include using a timer set to 20-second intervals, rehearsing multiple times until you’re comfortable with the pace, and ensuring you know the material well enough to improvise in case of unexpected interruptions or changes.
What are the different tools available to set up Pecha Kucha presentations?
-Pecha Kucha presentations can be set up using Google Slides, PowerPoint, or the Pecha Kucha website. Each tool allows users to format their slides to auto-advance every 20 seconds, making it easier to present without manually advancing slides.
Outlines
🎤 Introduction to Pecha Kucha
This paragraph introduces the Pecha Kucha presentation style, developed in Japan as a creative way to share ideas and tell stories. Unlike traditional PowerPoint presentations, Pecha Kucha uses a format of 20 slides with 20 seconds per slide, allowing for fast-paced and visually engaging presentations. It is image-based, focusing on storytelling rather than complex visuals or text. The speaker also mentions that while the format might seem challenging at first, with practice, it becomes a fun and effective way to communicate ideas.
📋 Structuring a Pecha Kucha Presentation
This section advises on how to plan and format a Pecha Kucha presentation. It emphasizes the importance of creating an outline first, focusing on clear storytelling. The speaker suggests choosing simple images to represent ideas and keeping the text minimal. The use of free image resources like Unsplash and Pixabay is recommended. Additionally, it is crucial to practice delivering the content within the 20-second window per slide, while avoiding reading from a script and being flexible in case of any disruptions or mistakes.
⏲️ Timing and Setup in Google Slides
In this paragraph, the speaker explains how to set up the auto-advance feature for Pecha Kucha presentations in Google Slides. Since Google Slides defaults to 10-second transitions, the speaker guides viewers on how to adjust the timing to 20 seconds. The speaker demonstrates how to edit the slideshow link, modify the timing, and ensure smooth transitions. The importance of rehearsing the timing, using note cards (but not relying on them), and being comfortable with the material is stressed.
🖥️ Timing and Setup in PowerPoint
Here, the speaker shows how to set up automatic slide transitions in PowerPoint. The process involves selecting all slides and applying a 20-second automatic transition. The speaker recommends disabling the 'on mouse click' option to avoid manual transitions. For group presentations, it's advised to divide the presentation into clear sections for each participant, rather than alternating between slides, as this helps maintain a smooth flow and avoid time losses during transitions.
🌐 Creating Pecha Kucha on the Official Website
This paragraph highlights the Pecha Kucha website, where users can create their presentations directly on the platform. The site also offers a community for sharing and viewing Pecha Kucha presentations. The speaker encourages viewers to explore these examples online and consider attending or participating in Pecha Kucha Nights. The speaker invites viewers to share their own Pecha Kucha presentations in the comments section of the video.
🚀 Final Tips and Encouragement
In the closing remarks, the speaker reiterates the benefits of using the Pecha Kucha format, stating that it helps presenters stay focused and tell compelling stories within a limited time frame. The speaker encourages viewers who are preparing for a class presentation to practice and wishes them good luck. The video concludes with a call to subscribe for more content on science, education, and technology.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Pecha Kucha
💡Slide Design
💡Storytelling
💡Time Management
💡Practice
💡Unsplash and Pixabay
💡Outline
💡Google Slides
💡PowerPoint
💡Presentation in Groups
Highlights
Pecha Kucha is a unique presentation style developed in Japan to encourage creativity and storytelling over traditional PowerPoint presentations.
The Pecha Kucha format consists of 20 slides, with each slide lasting 20 seconds, forcing presenters to convey their points concisely and efficiently.
This presentation method emphasizes the use of simple, image-based slides to engage the audience and keep their attention on the speaker rather than complex visuals or heavy text.
A major challenge for beginners is adjusting to the fast-paced nature of the format, but with practice, it can become a fun and creative way to share ideas.
Pecha Kucha presentations require thorough preparation; having an outline is crucial to organizing ideas and avoiding a rushed delivery.
Selecting the right images to support the presentation is key—keeping text light and ensuring visuals align with the message is essential.
The speaker emphasizes that practicing with a 20-second interval timer is critical to mastering the timing and flow of the presentation.
Presenters are encouraged to avoid reading from a script, as Pecha Kucha presentations benefit from a more natural, conversational tone.
To set up a Pecha Kucha presentation in Google Slides, you can adjust the auto-advance setting by modifying the URL timer to 20 seconds.
In PowerPoint, users can set automatic transitions for 20 seconds per slide under the ‘Transitions’ tab.
For group presentations, it’s recommended to divide sections of the presentation among team members rather than alternating slide by slide to prevent awkward transitions.
Pecha Kucha's website offers tools for creating presentations directly on their platform, along with a community for sharing and exploring Pecha Kucha stories.
If participating in a Pecha Kucha Night, attendees can experience a variety of creative storytelling methods from different presenters, often in a community setting.
There are plenty of examples and resources available online, especially on YouTube, for those looking to see well-executed Pecha Kucha presentations.
The Pecha Kucha format helps speakers become more concise, teaching them to get to the core of their message quickly and tell a compelling story in a limited timeframe.
Transcripts
everyone so your teachers ask you to do
a pecha kucha presentation for class or
patchuchika as some people might say
in this video i'm going to go over what
a pecha kucha presentation is
how to get your slide set up for a great
presentation and then some tips and
tricks for presenting
really well in the pecha kucha format so
what is pecha kucha anyway
pecha kucha is an interesting
presentation style that was developed
first in japan
to make a creative way for people to
share ideas and tell stories better than
just the boring old powerpoint style
so if you want to try something
different pecha kucha is the style for
you
in this presentation style you're given
20 seconds per slide
for a total of 20 slides to tell a story
to get across a point
or to give out some interesting ideas
this may feel weird at the beginning if
you're just trying out pecha kucha for
the first time
you may feel rushed you may feel anxious
but once you practice it it's actually a
really fun and creative way to get
across ideas
as you notice i'm sort of nearing pecha
kucha style in this video with
one simple image on my background and
i'm not
exactly going to do pecha kucha because
i'm going to show you some ways to set
it up at the end
but you will notice that pecha kucha is
very image based
and people are meant to listen to the
story and the ideas you are giving
rather than read information or look at
complex images
on a slide you want your slides in pecha
kucha to be simple
and to the point so what's the story
you're going to tell with your pecha
kucha presentation
be thinking about that as you construct
your outline the first thing you're
going to want to do
is come up with your ideas and then you
can start to actually format your
presentation
in the pecha kucha format and i'm going
to share with you a few tips that you
want to keep in mind
as you're designing your slides remember
you only have 20 seconds per slide and
you don't want to make it feel like it's
rushed
so come up with your ideas and then
start thinking about what images or what
slides
could be the best to convey your
information you want to keep text light
and you want to use images that are
interesting and will grab the audience's
attention
i use all of my images from this
slideshow i got all my images from the
slideshow from unsplash and pixabay
these are two
sites with fair use images in your pecha
kucha presentation you want to make sure
that you are comfortable enough with the
material that you can explain it to the
audience
in 20 seconds but you don't want to read
from a script
this way if you make a mistake or you
stumble a little bit or something
happens there's audience laughter you
still have room to breathe and move
forward
and you're comfortable enough with the
content you also want to
tell a story start at the very beginning
with your main
idea and make sure you get that across
clearly to the audience and tell them
what's coming up
this is sort of like in my youtube video
start i told you what i was going to be
presenting about
i'm going through the tips and tricks
now and then later on i'll talk about
how you can format your slides
make sure you also have an outline ready
to go it's much
easier to design a pecha kucha
presentation if you have your outline
written out
and then you start on the slides it's
really tempting to start just dumping
images on slides first
but the more you storyboard the more you
draw out in a draft just a list on a
google doc or a sheet of paper
the better you can structure your
presentation next
up is practice once you get all your
information outlined you have your stuff
ready to go
you want to make sure you can get your
ideas across in 20 seconds
get a 20 second interval timer and just
talk through see how much information
you can cover in that time
you don't want to seem rushed but you do
want to make sure you have a comfortable
enough grasp on the content in those 20
seconds
i'm going to now show you three ways to
set up pecha kucha presentations
one in google slides one on the pecha
kucha website and then
once in powerpoint and i'll link to
these resources in the video
description so now i'm going to break
from the pecha kucha format to show you
how to do this
but if you have more questions and want
to see some great examples of other
pecha kucha presentations
there's lots of them out on the internet
if you've done a pecha kucha
presentation yourself make sure you say
in the comments below maybe you can
share it with people
who want to see these videos all right
so first up i did my presentation on
google slides so i'm going to exit
presentation mode here
and walk you through how i would set up
pecha kucha to auto advance every 20
seconds
now your teacher might give you a
template for this already so you may not
even need to set this part up and if so
you can skip ahead in the video but on
google slides after i've created my 20
slides and remember these are very image
based you don't want to include a lot of
text
that way you know your audience is
focused on you rather than the
information in the slides because
they're either going to read the text or
they're going to listen to you or
they're going to look at the pictures
they're not going to do all those things
so
once you have your simple slides and
your petition presentation ready to go
you're going to go to file and then
publish to the web
from there you want to auto advance your
slides and google doesn't have a 20
second default so you're going to click
every 10 seconds
and then you are going to take this link
here
and copy the link i'm on a max it's
command c or it's
ctrl c if you're on a pc and then you'll
put that in your search bar above and
you notice there's a 10 000 here
all you want to do to make the 20
seconds be your
all you want to do for a 20 second timer
is you want to go and delete this one
here add a two and
then when you hit enter or return it's
going to start your slideshow so be
ready to go
and here we go i have my first slide
brought up how to do a pecha kucha
presentation for class
i can hit play and this should auto
advance in 20 seconds
remember to make sure you've practiced
ahead of time it's okay to have note
cards but you really don't want to read
from a script
you want to make sure you know the
presentation material well enough that
you can improvise a little bit
that you have room to pick up your speed
or slow things down if need be
and you can delete a line or two so
there we go my slide just advanced
automatically after 20 seconds
so you can hit pause on google slides or
you can let it keep going for the full
pecha kucha presentation but remember
pecha kucha is meant to keep yourself
going so you don't get stuck
on one point i'm going to now go to
powerpoint and show you how to do the
same thing
so if you're on powerpoint you want to
make sure you have your 20 slides set up
and then you're going to go to
transitions and you want to make sure
that on transitions you can do this for
all of the slides or just one at a time
if you want to control a
or command a you want to make sure
automatically transition
after 20 seconds so that on my version
of powerpoint is right here
and you don't want to make you want to
make sure this on mouse click is
unchecked
and you can also hit apply to all and
that should apply to all your slides
then we can go down to our presentation
mode let's start with this woman here
and now this woman will advance
automatically to the next slide
after 20 seconds another tip for doing
your pecha kucha presentations
is that if you're participating in this
type of presentation style in a group
you want to make sure it is very clear
who is doing which slides and where
i would not recommend alternating one
person after one person oh there we go
are my 20 seconds my slide advanced
what i would recommend doing instead is
having one person being
charged at the beginning another person
in charge of the middle and another
person in charge of the end
if you're alternating between two people
or going back and forth during a pecha
kucha presentation
you can lose a lot of time between the
transition between two people
so if you are in a group make sure it's
very well rehearsed and people have
chunks of information and you're not
alternating slide by slide
all right lastly you can also set up a
pecha kucha presentation
on the pecha kucha website itself and
that is in create mode you can actually
create your own slide template
on this website itself pecha kucha has
its whole community they have pecha
kucha nights where people share stories
via the
pecha kucha format you can also go to
the kucha website and
find presentations that might be
interesting to you to see
other versions of pecha kucha and how
people have created interesting topics
through this there's also lots of
examples on youtube
and if you've created a pecha kucha
presentation in the past and you like to
share it feel free to add it in the
comments below i'd love to check it out
so this 20 by 20 presentation format
doesn't give you a lot of room to wiggle
with but i know it's going to be a
really great presentation experience
and you are going to get really good at
getting to the point and telling great
stories within your presentations
if you're doing this for class good luck
make sure you let me know how it goes
and thanks for watching make sure you
subscribe if you want to hear more about
science education or technology from me
see you later
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