Pecha Kucha, Japanese for “chit chat,” is the new communication style of telling a story using exactly 20 slides, for exactly 20 seconds each, for exactly 6 minutes, 40 seconds of presentation time.

Explain what Pecha Kucha is to students, but feel free to alter the style for beginners. For example, you might want to allow minimal words on slides with images at first like I did, or you might ...

Good things come from small packagers, according to new online design magazine PingMag MAKE. The Web site delves into the Japanese art of monozukuri (“making things“), a broad concept encompassing ...

A couple of years ago, I found myself teaching a section of a class that mandated a PowerPoint presentation. (That is, to keep my section aligned with the others, I had to require such a presentation.

It’s been said that every time someone makes a PowerPoint presentation, Edward Tufte kills a kitten. Still, Tufte, father of modern data visualization and author of The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: ...

If your working day involves listening to or making presentations, then the last thing you’ll want to do after hours is sit and look at more slides on a screen — unless you happen to be attending a ...

CHAMPAIGN – You may know the University of Illinois was the first college to install curb cuts, add wheelchair ramps for buildings and make buses accessible. But ...

“Students, please remember to monotonously read every slide word-for-word when you present to the class.” Said no teacher ever. As I prepare for my presentation this week at the Florida Educational ...