Pecha Kucha

Networked media presentation

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In this week’s workshop we were shown examples of Pecha Kucha presentations for us to then do our own on a topic. A Pecha Kucha presentation is basically only made up of pictures which stay on screen for around 20 seconds and there are about 20 slides a presentation. The images on screen are relevant to and reinforce what the presenter is saying. I was really intrigued by this style as I had never seen a presentation done this way. I had only ever really seen people basically reiterate what was on the screen and I find that boring and repetitive. However I was very apprehensive as I do not like speaking in front of groups and stutter when I am nervous.

We got into groups and we were given our topic for the Pecha Kucha; it was uses above the level of a single device. For my part I researched and wrote about cloud computing focusing on the software Evernote and the platform iTunes and the roles they help play. Evernote is a software device that the user can access anywhere with internet to finish projects while iTunes is a platform device but because all of the Apple products can interact and sync together means virtually anything stored on the home computer is available to the user on other Apple products.  While writing my part for the presentation I soon realised that I wouldn’t have any prompts on screen in the form of text to aid me during the presentation which I normally would and that scared me as I feel very uncomfortable presenting in normal situations. I decided to get very simple images for my slides so that I wasn’t distracted by the screen when presenting. I was also nervous as university was still a very new concept and I felt I didn’t really know my group that much and was wary as to how they would react to our presentation but of course I was just worrying to much.

I felt very nervous about presenting but overall I think it went well. I also think it has improved my social and speaking skills as it was the first presentation I have ever done at university. I do think that the Pecha Kucha is a good way to present and makes the audience really have to listen to what is being said since the images give little help they only reinforce what is being said, but it is not a style I am comfortable with using so I don’t think I will be trying this again.