You will be presenting your essay’s major (note that this is "major," not "all"!) argumentative arc and analytical support to your peers in 6-7 minutes using pecha kucha style of powerpoint. This means 20 slides, automatically advancing every 20 seconds, with no more than 10 words on any given slide. Read more about pecha-kucha on Wikipedia.

You may use any images you like, but be sure to document everything (you may do this with descriptive captions). I encourage you to use free, creative commons licensed images (try Flickr Commons; read more about source use for multimedia projects here). Just because they're free, though, doesn't mean you don't have to acknowledge their creator! Your slides can work as imagistic counterpoints to your verbal presentation; they might work to illustrate your verbal presentation; they might also be brief excerpts or quotes that you're speaking about in your verbal presentation; and so on.

Of your twenty slides, you must include two in particular: a title slide with your title, course info, and name, as well as a works cited slide for the sources used in your essay. 

Your presentation isn't your essay, though! You will need to select your material carefully, and you will need to practice. You should use POWERPOINT, PREZI, or SLIDEROCKET to complete this presentation. Whichever tool you use, be sure that you set the presentation to advance automatically. This will help you stay on track. Because you cannot use a lot of text in your presentation, that means that you'll have to know your stuff, too. You can work with notecards, but you shouldn't read directly from your essay. Remember: Select! Your presentation is not your essay!

Post your presentation to your blog before you present (or, depending on our class parameters, email it to me).

View sample pecha-kucha presentations online (this one is particularly good, but this one is better; this is a great one, too). Here's a powerpoint modeled on pecha-kucha principles.

Have fun!