No, it’s Pecha Kucha?   (pronounced peh-chak-cha) Are you searching for better ways to present information to your students? Are  your  students experiencing “death by PowerPoint?” If so, join us for the IDS Summer Institute 2008 to explore a variety of presentation styles and learn ways to kick the quality of your PowerPoint presentations up a notch! 

Inspired by a recent Pecha Kucha event in Austin and an interesting article in Wired Magazine entitled “Pecha Kucha: Get to the PowerPoint in 20 Slides Then Sit the Hell Down”. (8/21/07), IDS staff are exploring presentation styles currently used in the business and design world and finding ways to incorporate them into our academic setting. 

This year’s Summer Institute 2008 will focus on three presentation styles:

• Pecha Kucha (derived from the Japanese word for “chit chat”) - a presentation format originally devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein-Dytham Architecture (KDa) in Tokyo in 2003 as a way for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. Since then the format has spread all over the world with Pecha Kucha nights being held in more than 100 US and International cities.  The idea behind Pecha Kucha is to keep presentations succinct and maintain a high interest level. 
• The Lessig Method - named after Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford Law School and founder of the Creative Commons, is known for its rapid presentation style incorporating short phrases or pictures.
• Guy Kawasaki’s presentation style – this “top 10 list” approach is used by Guy Kawasaki, a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley and former Apple Computer “Evangelist.”

This institute will explore the content organization, graphic design elements, and pacing of each of these methods and discuss the appropriate uses for each in an education context.  Join us to find out how YOU can become a better presenter and speaker.

Outcome:

Participants will convert 1-3 Power Point presentations to the new presentation formats taught in this institute. 

Skills and knowledge will include how to:

1. Prepare outlines and narrations for presentations
2. Search a variety of sources to find relevant images for presentations that have copyright clearance
3. Edit digital still images for appropriate use

Audience:

This workshop is designed for faculty members that want to make their presentations materials more engaging, targeted and student-centered to improve the learning environment in their courses. Must have basic Mac or PC skills and be able to save, store and manage files; use Power Point at basic level.

Schedule:

Institute will total 40 hours and include some face-to-face presentations and practice activities and additional online activities.

Incentive:

Faculty will be compensated at a rate of $25.00/hour for 40 hours. A stipend of $1000 will be distributed upon completion of stated outcomes.  Deadline for completion of projects is July 31st .

To Apply:

This is one time where the poorer your submission, the better chance you have of being selected.  Faculty will be selected based on the following design criteria in their presentations:

1. Slides with too many words
2. Bad images (poor resolution, pilfered from copyrighted sources, etc.)
3. Slides with full sentences or paragraphs (as if to read versus highlight)
4. Poor/mixed font styles and sizes
5. Lack of syntax consistency
6. Poor slide titles

Applications

The application deadline has passed. Please check back in the future for information about Summer Institute 2009.