Pecha Kucha: What to Do on PowerPoint If You Want to Do a Pecha Kucha-Style Presentation Pecha Kucha is a style of presentation that calls for 20 slides that is automatically timed at 20 seconds per slide. If you "Google" the term, you'll find plenty of information about it. There are entire Pecha Kucha nights that are organized worldwide for such presentations. If you check any sample presentations on the web (http://www.pecha-kucha.org/presentations/) you will see that they are mostly photographs. That's part of the idea: no more "death by PowerPoint" (another term you should "Google" sometime!) by avoiding any text whatsoever. Courtesy of PowerPoint's ability to create a photo album, it's easy to use PowerPoint for your Pecha Kucha presentation. Please note that these directions apply ONLY to those presentations that use one photograph per slide. If you plan to use more than one photo or illustration, while the photo album allows you to put up to four images per slide, you will likely instead want to use your regular knowledge of PowerPoint to construct them. However, the information on page 3 (Setting the Timing) will still be of interest to you. Know Where Your Photos Are First, it's easiest to put all of the photos you plan on using in the same folder on your PC. It does not matter what order they are in: you can use PowerPoint to change that. It WILL help, however, if you have given each photograph a distinct name for easier identification within PowerPoint, and not leave them named to whatever indecipherable name your digital camera uses, such as P1070134.jpg. Start Your Photo Album When in PowerPoint, click the Insert tab, and then head to Photo Album>>New Photo Album… On the ensuing dialog box, just click the File/Disk button to find your photos folder on your computer: 2 For this example, we are just going to use eight sample images rather than 20, but the concept for adding them will be the same. After navigating to the folder that has all of your images, you will want to select them. Rather than adding them one-by-one, select ALL of them so that you can add them more quickly. To do this, left-click over the first image to select it. Then, go to the last image, hold down the SHIFT key and click on the last image in the listing. All images should then be selected: With the images properly selected, just click the Insert button at the bottom. Organizing Your Photo Album Remember the recommendation that you NAME all of your images? Here's why. On the ensuing dialog box (shown on the next page), the names (and order) of all of your images will be displayed. Fortunately, even if you didn't follow our advice on naming each image, there is a "thumbnail" next to each one. All you have to do now is click on the image and click either the up arrow or down arrow under the list of image names to move them around. There are other options on this screen, too. You can have from one to four pictures on each slide (automatically arranged, based on the ordering of your images), and even do some on-the-fly editing of a specific image. (You can also do the latter within the regular view of PowerPoint, via the Picture Tools tab.) 3 Click on a specific slide and then…. …click either of these arrows to move it up or down. The Picture layout: drop-down menu also offers choices of 1, 2, or 4 pictures per slide—based on the order in the top area. These buttons allow you to do onthe-fly editing of the images, at least for contrast and brightness. Our suggestion is to leave the Picture layout: on the dialog above set to Fit to slide, but be aware that may cause smaller images to look blurry if the image was not large enough to begin with. Click the Create button, and you are set! (PowerPoint will automatically generate a title slide that you should probably delete or rename—it's up to you.) Setting the Timing Okay, so your presentation is ready, now all you have to do is set the timing. That's easy. Click the Transitions tab. Over on the far, far right of that ribbon you will see the Advance Slide category. Three things you need to do:    Uncheck On Mouse Click, since you want the presentation to run automatically Check After and set it to 20 seconds (00:20) Finally, click the Apply to All button that is just to the left of that group If you choose to use Slide Transitions (set to None by default), you can do the same thing. Select one transition, and then click Apply To All. Be careful, though. Check the Duration of the transition (far right). That might affect your timing! Be sure to reduce it as much as you can: Ken Black – CIS 120
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