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=Welcome to the Microsoft Office 2007 Project Wiki=

We will be using this wiki to share content, communicate and collaborate on the Pecha Kucha Project. Students from Mr. Crider's and Ms Garda's classes will use this wiki for this project. Keep in mind that this wiki was created for use on school projects and all language and content placed on this site must be school appropriate.

What is Pecha Kucha? Pecha Kucha Night was devised in [|2003] by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of [|Tokyo]'s Klein-Dytham Architecture (KDa), as a way to attract people to Super Deluxe, their experimental event space in [|Roppongi].[|[1]] Pecha Kucha Night events consist of around a dozen presentations, __each presenter having 20 slides, each shown for 20 seconds__. Each presenter has just 6 minutes 40 seconds to explain their ideas before the next presenter takes the stage. Conceived as a venue through which young designers could meet, show their work, exchange ideas, and network, the format keeps presentations concise, fast-paced and entertaining. Businesses use the Pecha Kucha format, especially for internal presentations, primarily as a device to limit the length of presentations, force presenters to focus their messages, reduce interruptions, and ultimately avoid "__[|death by Powerpoint]__". These presentations typically are limited to images, and shapes. Words should be limited to titles or keywords.
 * __Pecha Kucha__**

We are using this method of presenting for our Microsoft Office classes because we thought that it might be an interesting way to teach how to keep presentations short and to the point, to teach how to create a focused message, to learn how to present well and to use Google Presentations as an alternative to PowerPoint.

For this project you will be paired up with a student from the other classroom and you will be required to work on this project without really seeing the other person. This is great experience in working with a team member who is not in the same location as you. In your future work it is probable that you will be working with someone from another state or another country and all the work will be done online and shared online. As you will find out this is more difficult that f2f work when you are first starting out.

Good Luck!