This document provides an overview of a lecture about public speaking and Pecha Kucha presentations. It discusses the dangers of overly long PowerPoint presentations with too many words ("Death by PowerPoint") and introduces Pecha Kucha as an alternative format that limits presentations to 20 slides shown for 20 seconds each. It outlines a lab assignment where students will design their own Pecha Kucha presentations on their fields of study. Examples of Pecha Kucha topics are given and students are asked to watch examples and provide critical reflective tweets on what worked, didn't work, and what they learned.

1. Public Speaking
Death by PowerPoint & Hurrah
for Pecha Kucha
Lecture 9
Dr. Jessica Laccetti

2. Outline
• Reminder about Participation
• Intro to Public Speaking
• Intro to Pecha Kucha
• Lab Assignment
• Homework

3. Participation
• In class, in labs and online:
– Please remain cordial
– Show how you engage with the lecture
content/readings
– Demonstrate critical literacy!
Image from: http://www.ramseysfarm.com/maze_only.asp

4. Critical Literacy
• When we are critically literate, we examine
our ongoing development, to reveal the
subjective positions from which we make
sense of the world and act in it
• Evaluate material (tweets, blogs, journal
articles, conference presentations)
– Compare the discovered ideas w/known standards
– Draw conclusions
• Accuracy, appropriateness, timeliness

5. • Some tweets I have received:
• “@JessL #ALES204 The Web
Not Critical Literacy Ecology Project have found
that Twitter bots have
allowed for increased
human-to-human
interactions.”
• “@JessL Titter Bots cause an
increase in human
interaction.”
• “@JessL the research showed
that socialbots increased
human to human interaction
#ales204”

6. Better Critical Literacy
• “@JessL It'd be interesting to participate in
this scientificamerican.com/citizen-scienc…
project, as there are lots of squirrels on
campus! #ALES204”
• “@JessL #ALES204 its findings show that the
use of twitterbot causes apparent change in
human-to-human activity: more interaction
between user”

7. Best Critical Literacy
• “@JessL The EcologyProject makes us connect more
but I hate the idea that I'm being influenced by a bot!
#ALES204”
• “@jessL @clarkeshan attending #summit12 w/
@LahodaMark where @julianagyeman speaks about
equality! Encouraging everyone here to tweet!”
• “@JessL check your Twitter feed tonight at five.
Attending Julian Agyeman's talk on Just
Sustainabilities! Passing on info for CSL #ales204”
• “@JessL I'm not @ #farmtech12, but through Twitter
I've discovered that the company I'm working for this
summer, #Bayer, is there! #ales204”

8. “The number-one fear -
more terrifying than the
fear of death - is public
speaking."

9. What to Avoid

10. Death by Powerpoint
• In a business setting, a PowerPoint slide
typically shows 40 words
• = eight seconds of silent reading
• BUT then many, many slides are needed
• = relentless sequentially, one (boring!) slide
after another

11. Clear, informative,
untidy, incoherent graphs: the encoded useful colour-coding,
legends, the meaningless color, the logo-type legible!
branding = Chartjunk
Bad Good

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21. Pronunciation

22. Pecha Kucha as Antidote to Death by
PPT

23. #YEG Pecha Kucha
• Edmonton’s NextGen
presents Pecha Kucha
Night 12, February
2, 2012, at Metro Cinema
at The Garneau (8712 –
109 Street).
• PKN12 features
presentations on local
ideas, projects and
musings in the 20 slides x
20 second per slide format
• Tickets via TIX on the
Square; charge by phone at
780.420.1757 or online at
www.tixonthesquare.ca
• http://www.edmontonnext
gen.ca/2012/01/pecha-
kucha-night-12/

24. Lab Assignment
• Objective: practise strong public
communication
• Task: Design good, strong, correctly-timed
pecha kucha's
• Note: Some students will be asked to present
their pecha kucha

25. Lab Assignment
• Topic: Your field of study/a main research/career
interest
• You will have exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds
• Think SHORT, INFORMAL, and CREATIVE.
• NOT details of your main
thesis/thinking/objective
• BUT a story about why it’s interesting
– things you expect to do, and what you might expect to
find

26. Lab Assignment
• In PowerPoint or a comparable program, set up a
presentation with 20 slides
• Each slide should feature ONE image / phrase.
• You can find images by searching Flickr for Creative-
Commons licensed pictures (advanced search) or
images with NO copyright from The Commons:
http://www.flickr.com/commons

27. Images from Prof Hacker

28. Design Rules
• A presentation is created using PowerPoint (or
any other presentation software).
• Presenters are only allowed 20 slides and
those slides must automatically advance every
20 seconds
• PPT DEPENDS on:
– Visuals
– Structure
– Professionalism
– Engaged speaking

29. Example Pecha Kucha Presentations to
Peruse
• What, if Anything, Is Big Bird? , in Christchurch
(zoology)
• Just Enough, in Tokyo (envrionmentalism)
• Clowns Without Borders, in Washington DC
(activism)

30. In Class or Homework
• Send @JessL a critically reflective tweet (or
two) about a Pecha Kucha presentation you
have watched (see aforementioned examples)
• Note what worked & what didn’t
• What you learnt
• What you might improve upon
• Think about similarities &analogies that are
not superficially apparent

31. Homework