Pecha Kucha Essays

  • Powerpoint Versus Pecha Kucha

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    PowerPoint and Pecha Kucha are both tools for slideshow-based presentation, but they present information in drastically different ways. The key difference between their formats is in the timing of the resulting slideshow. This time difference gives each program its benefits and disadvantages. PowerPoint is a Microsoft program used for presentations. The presentations consist of a number of slides, which are individual pages, generally shown in landscape orientation. Text, pictures, videos or

  • Incorporating Public Speaking into Regional and Urban Town Planning

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    Cited Ron Kurtus. 2006. Goals of a Public Speaker. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.school-for-champions.com/speaking/goals.htm. [Accessed 24 April 14]. Oliver, J, & Kowalczyk, C 2013, 'Improving Student Group Marketing Presentations: A Modified Pecha Kucha Approach', Marketing Education Review, 23, 1, pp. 55-58, Business Source Premier, EBSCOhost, viewed 6 May 2014. McConnell, C 2005, 'The manager and oral presentations: from conference room to convention hall', Health Care Manager, 24, 1, pp. 77-88

  • Reflection On Presentation

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    Content covered 1. In my presentation, two sections were covered, namely “Ancillary Community Benefits” and “Wrongs Remedied by Other Means”. Most of the points in the article were included with some elaborations. Due to the time constraint of pecha kucha, it was impossible to include all the points so prioritisation of points comes into play. There was room for improvement regarding the choice of what to be included in the presentation as some relevant points were missing in the presentation such

  • The Influence of Race and Southern Culture on the Works of Terrance Hayes

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    from University of Pitt with a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry, and became a mentor to aspiring African American poets. (Alumnus Profile). Hayes incorporates his African American culture into his poetry in these three select poems: a Japanese styled Pecha Kucha titled, “Arbor for Butch,” a poem regarding race stigmatization titled, “What I am” and a final poem illustrating the power of the Black American voice, “Lighthead’s Guide to the Ga... ... middle of paper ... ...ed, Smart." NPR. N.p., 05 May

  • Theories Of Performance Interventions

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    As discussed in the Fundamentals of Performance Improvement textbook, there are eight distinct categories of performance interventions. These categories consist of (1) Learning, (2) Performance Support, (3) Job Analysis/Work Design, (4) Personal Development, (5) Human Resource Development, (6) Organizational Communication, (7) Organizational Design and Development, and (8) Financial Systems. Each intervention is designed to tackle gaps pinpointed in an organization through proposed solutions (Van

  • Reflection Of Teaching At The First Day Of Class

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    presentations in front of a classroom is something that I do not have much experience with, especially in front of my peers. I 've learned how to be more confident in what I am saying through participating in class discussions and presenting during the Pecha Kucha activity. As stressful as that activity was, memorizing the information that was important in order to teach my classmates was very beneficial and time efficient compared to reading word off of a powerpoint slide. While teaching in a classroom,

  • Public Speaking Style Of Speech

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    Murugaiah further points out “Pecha Kucha (PK), which means “the sound of conversation” or “chitchat” in Japanese, refers to a presentation format that is well-prepared, fast and concise” (p. 89) The PK, created by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham, consists of 20 PowerPoint slides, containing

  • Gary Soto Poetry Reflection

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    The Introduction to Poetry class had taught me an incredible amount about the variety of poets and their own unique style of writing poems, and how these poems has more than just one viewpoint. The materials taught throughout this course has given me a new perspective that I will carry with me for a long time. I learned about how poetry isn’t just a piece of work that poets creates for fun, but rather a descriptive piece of writing that are written in the poet's' own style and own outlook in life

  • Graduation Speech: A Humorous Wedding Speech

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    Its great to see all of you here today for my Pecha Kucha Presentation. Today, I am going to be talking about some of the lessons that a large event in my life taught me. Even though the event happened a couple of years ago, the things I learned from it still guide me today. I did not consider what I learned from this event until recently until we talked about leadership qualities in class and how different people learn them. Many of you may be wondering what that event was. I know not all of