Tweaking Pecha Kucha And Ignite To Increase Learning
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If you provide consecutive speakers every five to seven minutes, you’ve done nothing but created a series of unconnected information dumps for your audience. Unfortunately, they are not great models to promote learning and retention. To entertain and keep the attention of your audience with a new presentation model?īoth Pecha Kucha and Ignite are great models of using short concise presentations to provide information.To promote participation of more speakers?.To provide a new form of information sharing?.If you are considering adding Pecha Kucha or Ignite models to your conference, what is your goal?
What’s The Goal Of Incorporating Pecha Kucha Or Ignite Into Your Conference? In an hour’s time, audiences can hear about 12 presentations. Inspired by Pecha Kucha, Ignite talks follow a similar design: 20 slides, advanced automatically every 15 seconds for a total of five minutes. Ignite has two parts: contests where people make things and Ignite talks. They wanted a way for people to share ideas and network in an informal setting. Ignite started in December 2006 in Seattle by O’Reilly’s Brady Forrest and Esty’s Bre Pettis. In an hour’s time, audiences’ can hear about nine presentations. The objective is to keep the presentations brief to give more people a chance to present. Slides advance automatically as the speaker presents. The design is simple: 20 slides, each shown for 20 seconds for a total of 6 minutes and 40 seconds. Pecha Kucha, Japanese for chatter, started in 2003 in Tokyo by two architects as a new way to deliver PowerPoint presentations.