This week’s assignment was to create a Pecha Kucha. It’s an onomatopoeic Japanese word that means chatter. Two architects living in Japan created it as a means to quickly share design ideas. A Pecha Kucha consists of 20 slides that are visible for 20 seconds each.
I chose to do my Pecha Kucha on mental health for middle school students. After learning about cognitive behavioral therapy in books I’ve read in the past I thought it was a ‘life skill’ students should be learning at school, though it’s not attached to any particular standard. I designed to feel like an orientation video for life.
The most challenging part of this for me was proportioning my slides. I needed more than 20 seconds for some images or ideas and less for others. Hence, my Pecha Kucha includes me talking very quickly and then more slowly. Turning the Powerpoint into a video was also a bit tricky. I opened it in Keynote and made it a video from there. The original slide show shows each slide for exactly 20 seconds. I think the empty space was cut out when I converted it to a video.