A couple of years ago, I found myself teaching a section of a class that mandated a PowerPoint presentation. (That is, to keep my section aligned with the others, I had to require such a presentation.

One the absolute highlights of my year last year, was participating in Pecha Kucha Dallas. Pecha Kucha (pronounced pechachka), Japanese for chit chat, is a lecture format that began in 2003 in Japan ...