“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twenty slides, twenty seconds each. In 2003, Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of the design firm Klein Dytham Architecture in Tokyo devised a presentation format that deviated from the boring, wordy and ...

We've all been there. You're trapped at a mildly interesting yet endlessly droning conference or presentation and the only thing keeping you semi conscious is your constant battle with gravity to keep ...

The house was packed Wednesday night at The Range at Lotta Studio as locals and travelers converged on the co-working space for the 33rd edition of Pecha Kucha New Haven, titled “Summer Lovin’.” The ...