Ep 31 - Hacking Powerpoint for Effective Presentations with Pecha Kucha

'Death by Powerpoint' is real. We know from the literature that doing default Powerpoint presentations reduces comprehension, retention and engagement out of a classroom, with time for active activities being lost as well. However, hacking PowerPoint by using the 'Pecha Kucha' (or its cousin Ignite Talk) format, make TED-talk style, engaging, cognitively effective and time efficient presentations of material that opens up time for application and active activities follow-up.

Episode Resources:

• Pecha Kucha (Ignite Talk) Presentation Example, Tips & Resources
• "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within" (Tufte)
• Five Ways to Reduce PowerPoint Overload [PDF]