Pecha Kucha
During week four of network media, my colleagues and I were assigned a task to create a Web 2.0 Pecha Kucha presentation on one of the following eight subjects that were given to us by our lecturer; Pecha Kucha is a way of structuring a presentation to make it economical and to the point. A standard Pecha Kucha presentation lasts for 6.40 minutes and consists of 20 slides, each of which is shown for 20 seconds. However, our presentation will consist of 15 slides, each slide lasting 20 seconds, therefore the whole presentation will last 5 minutes. There were many topics to choose from such as Web as Platform / Cloud computing, The Long Tail, Collective Intelligence, Folksonomy, Data as the Next Intel Inside, Software above the level of a Single Device, Network Effects and Attention Economy/Free Labour. As a group we decided to create a Pecha Kucha based on an article that Tim O’Reilly developed about the web being a Platform/ Cloud computing.
Before we started to do our research on the web being Platform/ Cloud computing, we decided to view previous examples of other Pecha Kucha spresentations, as my group and I, were not aware of the power style presentation. We visited a link which was provided to us in the module hand book.
I then decided to do further research on another previous Pecha Kucha presentation and view another video on YouTube.
After further research, my group and I decided to assign each member a chapter within Tim O’Reilly’s article, so we could discuss this within the presentation. My task was to discuss what web 2.0 is, and what web platform is better, Google chrome or Internet Explorer? Initially when I thought of the term Web 2.0 it was difficult to perceive it as a platform, but just a new and improved Internet Explorer, but this assumption was incorrect. The term web 2.0 was a new version of World Wide Web, which allows the end user to supply their own information on the web as well as control their own data. For example, Facebook is useless without its end-users, as it is just a template where the end user fills the blank spaces with text. When doing further research on Web 2.0, I discovered that there has been an on going battle between Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. Many Google chrome users would argue that chrome is better because it has its own java script engine despite having a webkit; which allows software such as Gmail and Google docs to work to its peak. There was not many positives about Windows Internet Explorer except the fact that it is commonly used by computer users, and that it loads faster than Google chrome and has more internet options.
After gathering all of the research, I met up with my group members to put the findings together as a Pecha Kucha presentation. As a group, we decided to remove information that was not ideally necessary due to the time limit of 5 minutes. Later on that day, we presented our findings to the class and received positive feedback. The skills obtained as a result of this project are an improvement in my team work skills, an increased knowledge on Web 2.0 and the ability to implement a new presentation style. The Pecha Kucha stood out the most as it is not time consuming and efficient in terms of precision which allows the user to meet deadlines.
