Slideshow Draft
Create a draft of your slideshow and start writing your script. “Pecha Kucha” presentations emphasize visual storytelling, breaking us out of the tired formulae of PowerPoint. In a Pecha Kucha format, you have 20 slides timed at 20-second intervals. Slides should contain images, not words—though it’s okay with me if you track source dates in the lower right corner.
Start building your slideshow at slides.google.com. I recommend using a relatively spare theme, to give prominence to the evidence you present. You will probably want to create your slides and script in parallel with one another. Use the sample script linked at right to get a sense of how long each slide narration should be. Number your ¶s to keep your script synched with the slides.
Use the 1-2 slides to introduce your topic and, if possible, announce your thesis. Then get busy telling your story. For purposes of this draft, see if you can get 5 or 10 slides done.
In a comment below, post a link to your slides as follows:
- from the File menu, choose “Publish to the Web”
- in the pop-up window, choose auto-advance slides every 10 seconds, leaving the auto-start and auto-replay options unchecked
- click Publish
- copy the resulting link and paste it into a comment below
- before publishing your comment, edit the link to change “delayms=10000” to “delayms=20000”