Thursday, December 4, 2014

Pecha Kucha: Superior Skydiving

The Pecha Kucha presentation that I watched was by Lyn Langlais and was about her skydiving career. She kept my undivided attention and kept things interesting. Putting beautiful pictures of places that she jumped like Hawaii was very effective. Some things that the presenter did that she could improve on is saying "um" and "uh" less. It made it sound as if she was a little bit under prepared or nervous. Also, including those short pauses made her speech go slower than she wanted, resulting in her having to stop and apologize for about 10 seconds, then catch up to where her pictures were at.

As a whole, I thought it was a good presentation. She included a lot of serious information about skydiving and also some of her personal information, such as her injury. Using Pecha Kucha as a presentation form is a lot better than a regular slideshow to the audience. They won't have to listen to the presenter just reading off of the slides. Pecha Kuchas give a great reason for very interesting pictures that appeal to the audience. I think I'll be able to fill 10 slides with information because I really like the subject that I've been researching and have gathered a lot of information.