pecha kucha

plural pecha kuchas

1. countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of Pecha Kucha.

plural Pecha Kuchas · alternative PechaKucha · alternative pecha-kucha · alternative pecha kucha

1. uncountableA rigid presentation format in which the speaker has exactly 20 slides to speak about, with exactly 20 seconds allocated for each slide (20×20).

   Everyone should try Pecha Kucha—it's a good exercise for getting your story down even if you do not use this exact method for your own live talk.

   2011, Garr Reynolds, Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery, →ISBN

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   Pecha Kucha is based on a simple idea: that by limiting the number of slides in a presentation, and limiting the amount of time a presenter can spend on each slide, presentations will convey information concisely and at a rapid pace.

   2010, Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo, Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers, →ISBN, page 111

2. countableA presentation given using this format.

   Each team will have 30 minutes (or some fixed about of time) to plan and create a Pecha Kucha on [name a particular topic]

   2012, John Chen, 50 Digital Team-Building Games, →ISBN, page 48

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   After they present their Pecha Kuchas, and the class discusses them, we ask the students to go back to the page to reconstruct their arguments in light of the discussion.

   2011, Laurie E. Gries, Collin Gifford Brooke, “An Inconvenient Tool: Rethinking the Role of Slideware in the Writing Classroom”, in Steve Parks, Linda Adler-Kassner, editors, The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals 2010, Parlor Press LLC, →ISBN

3. countableuncountableA set of Pecha Kucha talks all given together in one sitting, typically staged as an evening entertainment.

   Pecha Kucha nights are now an established format for presentations in the creative industries.

   2012, Andrew Hugill, The Digital Musician, →ISBN, page 252

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   Editioned on the occasion of the 2007 Pecha Kucha of the North American Cartographic Information Society.

   2011, John Krygier, Denis Wood, Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS, →ISBN, page 13