At the end of unit 2, you will need to give an oral report based on whatever your team wrote about for the unit 2 written report. A Pecha Kucha (AKA Ignite) presentation is a different style of presentation than many of you have done. Although you may not do this kind of presentation frequently in the real world, it is design to get you to think about presentations differently. Pecha Kucha presentations emphasize visuals and pacing, two things that sometimes get short shrift in typical presentations.

Guidelines

  1. Your presentation must contain exactly 20 slides that are ONLY images, charts, or graphs (for instance, 17 images and 3 charts). No more. No less.

  2. As an option, you may add no more than 5 slides with text (six or fewer lines of 10 words each). (You may also include a title slide and ending/thank you slide with no penalty against your 5 additional slides.)

    <aside> 💡 This means your slide show can be a maximum of 27 total slides (if you use all 5 additional text slides plus title and thank you slides) but no less than 20 slides.

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  3. The images must be images or charts/graphs. Image slides can be illustrations, photographs, graphics or other forms of images. Text is not allowed on image slides – there should be no words on the image slides. Zero. Zilch. None. Nada. No text. None. Charts or graphs can include data labels to show what the chart means, but that is it. Most presentations are nearly all images.

  4. The slides containing images must advance themselves automatically after you start the slideshow. Each image must be on the screen for 15 seconds before the next image appears. No more. No less.

  5. Your presentation must include

    1. A short introduction or roadmap of the presentation
    2. A description of the current state
    3. A description of the issue in your report
    4. A clear articulation of your recommendation
    5. Supporting evidence for your recommendation to persuade us to approve your idea
    6. OPTIONAL: Address potential rebuttals/opposition we might have to your idea
    7. A short summary or conclusion at the end

  6. You get one chance per presentation. If you haven’t practiced or your images don’t advance, you are not allowed to start again. (If you don’t have the application necessary to advance the PPT automatically—since the online version of PPT doesn’t allow it but the desktop version does—send your PPT to me, and I will set the auto-advance and run it for you.)

  7. Each member of the team must say something during the presentation.

  8. We will have a friendly competition using imaginary money or virtual voting chips so that we may invest in several team’s business plans or vote to approve different projects.

Background

The presentation methodology for this assignment is loosely based on Pecha Kucha and borrowed from a colleague in Boulder, Colorado (http://igniteboulder.com/). In the Pecha Kucha format (also sometimes called the "Ignite" format), presenters speak while a group of slides or images (usually 20) are shown for 15 or 20 seconds each. (See http://youtu.be/wGaCLWaZLI4 and http://youtu.be/9NZOt6BkhUg for more information and an example.) This format forces you to make a presentation that is concise, fast-paced, and meant to ignite and persuade the audience about a particular subject.

For this class, the subject of your presentation is the same as your unit 2 report, and your classmates and I will be standing in for potential investors, decision makers, or whoever the main audience is for your report (someone who would give you money or support for your project).

This format gives you about 5 minutes to introduce your subject, make your recommendations clear, support those recommendations, and if applicable, explain how your recommendations are worth the investment we might put in. You may create handouts if you wish (that you can ask me to email to the class), but handouts are not required. You are trying to sell us on your idea.

Note:

Alex Bruton, www.theinnographer.com, and his DIY Innovator Toolkit have some great instructions on making your presentation in Google Slides. Visit https://speakingaboutpresenting.com/content/fast-ignite-presentation/ and scroll down the page to where you’ll find Alex’s instructions. He does a great job, so I don’t need to recreate the wheel here.

A Note on Technology

You can use PowerPoint, Prezi, or any other application that allows slides to auto-advance. I will show you how to auto-advance in PowerPoint (PPT) in class, but instructions are easy to find online.

IMPORTANT: Only the full, desktop or laptop version of PPT has the auto-advance option. The online (360) version doesn’t have it.

In PPT, you set the auto-advance by going to the Transitions tab and unchecking the “On Mouse Click” option. Then, you check the “After” checkbox and put 15.00 in the open field. Note: do not adjust the “Duration” field. Duration is how long a slide takes to fade in and out if you have animated transitions. If anything, set Duration to 0, 1, or 2.