Sexy, Sinful Powerpoint Presentations

Regarding this week’s presentations I have to admit that they were not exactly what I expected. I anticipated a lot of references to Facebook and texting and such… but I didn’t prepare for the sheer power blast of information that each show tried to cram into their 20 twenty-second slides. It was truly like compressing an entire semester into a seven minute, detailed, semi-nuanced presentation. And I’m pretty sure that’s what mine will be today as well.

When I was looking over the links about Pecha Kucha, I got the impression that they served as more of a display to be independently running while someone talked about their creative endeavor, like photography or some building structure an architect wanted to show off. In this sense, I don’t really feel like our powerpoints are executed in the true Pecha Kucha style, but for the presentation prompt, I don’t see how we could have fit in all the theory and concepts we have covered in this class into the format. I think it is interesting, and I will probably enjoy all the projects today as well as presenting my own, but trying to fit so much content in is more stressful than I thought it would be. I think I would rather a 10 minute limit, unlimited slides with a minimal type requirement. But overall it has definitely been interesting and entertaining.