Comment on the first PechaKucha presentations

We have already explained in the previous blog post what a PechaKucha presentation stands for and what it should look like. Yesterday in class the first expositions were performed with different results for all of them. We could take out some conclusions about our partner’s work.

First of all about the format, it was not necessary to be an only image presentation if not that some text could be included. The perfect combination of both pictures and text is what makes a point between a normal presentation or a fantastic one. Some of us just put images while others typed too much. Another key factor related with the PPT format we could see is that it does not look very serious to have a different format from one slide to the other. It was seen in some teams that divided the work and then just paste it but every style was different.

On the other hand, we noticed that most of us had fear to eye contact. Just a few kept it. I believe it is due to lack of practise and also too much nervousness. The same reason led to no body language in most of the people so they just kept their hands in the pocket or the opposite, they moved too much. It also led to get confused a few times, forget some information and do not match each slide with the 20 seconds established by PechaKucha. A recommendation given is to bring with you a paper where the main points appear so that when forgetting something you can instantly remember by a simple glance at it. However, we cannot see at it too much because we would lose eye contact and it will seem as we do not know what we are talking about, we are just reading.

Finally, I realized the only way to improve every mistake we did is to practice once and once again. Some of us are shier than others, it can take to some more or less time but at the end it is something we can all achieve. Once we all get used to talk to the hole class, nervousness will start to disappear so the perform will be better.