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Pecha Kucha, Japanese for "chit chat," is a variation of a lightning talk where a speaker has a limited time in which to share information and engage the audience.
"PechaKucha 20x20 is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and you talk along to the images".
Source: PechaKucha.org
There are 8 steps in the process of opening Wikimedia, searching, finding, attributing, and placing images for a PechaKucha.
Be sure you SCROLL down through this page to review every step.
1) Open the Wikimedia Commons tab located on this guide. Review the information about Wikimedia Commons.
2) Click the link to open the wiki found on that page or go directly to Wikimedia Commons. Execute searches for images from the single search box located at the top of the page
TIPS: search using one word at a time (i.e. canine, chicken, Asia, measles, maps, and so forth); avoid using sentences or multiple words in the search box.
NOTE: Remember that you are not searching for the topic of your paper but you are searching for images that will support your ideas and arguments.
For example: a student might have the topic of language. Searching for language will return irrelevant or no image results; however, searching for images of mouths, ears, people in conversation, and so forth, garners great image selections.
Another example: the topic is depression. Searching for depression will retrieve great vintage, historical, and modern images; however, the results list will include images for economic depression information and geological depression. Dr. Williams’ “Pink Pills” is included in the results list when searching for depression, which would trigger another search possibility – “medication” or simply “pills”.
Students becoming information literate begin to understand that research is iterative; that it takes patience, and time.
Searching for images in Wikimedia Commons requires patience and exploration.
3) Review results, choose an image, click on image to open.
4) Wikimedia Commons populates from various online /social media image sites including Flickr. The image for this example opens in Flickr from Wikimedia Commons. Information literate learners develop skills to manage their sources. Images are a source.
Students must download the image and save it to a location with all other materials for the PechaKucha so that if they must prove from where they retrieved the image, students are prepared. To download from Flickr, click on the icon located on the right-side of the interface.
A small pop-up window appears in the bottom right corner providing students with access to download options and correct attribution.
Students then copy the attribution and paste it into their presentation. The attribution is placed on the image at a location that does not detract from the images, in a small font size (8 - 10), and in a colour that compliments the image.
Students download the image to a location where all other materials for the PechaKucha are located and can be easily found. Student then use the Insert function in PowerPoint to insert the image into their PechaKucha.
NOTE: Ideally, the image covers the entire slide. To accomplish this the image must be enlarged. Please be sure to do this without distorting the image. In PowerPoint, move the cursor to one corner of the image and drag it to the desired size and reposition to the center of the slide.
DO NOT stretch the image horizontally or vertically.
The image and attribution on the slide might look like this in PowerPoint:
And in the presentation, like this:
This is an ideal attribution:
Title
"Creative Commons 10th Birthday Celebration San Francisco"
Author (linked to his profile page)
"tvol"
Source (linked to original Flickr page or Wikimedia page)
"Creative Commons 10th Birthday Celebration San Francisco"
License (linked to license deed)
