{"id":2057,"date":"2025-07-04T14:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T14:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/navigatingstudent\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=2057"},"modified":"2025-07-04T14:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T14:16:50","slug":"how-to-do-a-pecha-kucha","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/textbook.mediasmarts.ca\/navigatingstudent\/chapter\/how-to-do-a-pecha-kucha\/","title":{"raw":"How to Do a Pecha Kucha","rendered":"How to Do a Pecha Kucha"},"content":{"raw":"We are looking at a detailed tutorial video about how to create and present a PechaKucha presentation for class, with the presenter, a light-skinned woman in her early to mid-thirties, visible in a small inset in the bottom left corner of the screen, giving instructions on a series of slides with accompanying explanations, with the woman wearing a dark turtleneck and her hair tied back in a bun, seated in front of a picture of a world map and a globe in her home office setting. 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