Pecha Kucha

I just finished my pecha kucha. I was extremely excited about my idea and I am glad that I did this before I would have students do it because I ran into some bumps in the road. My idea was for students to collaborate in small groups to write a creative story(lighthearted and fun), use a storyboard, and put it in pecha kucha format. I would like for them to use pictures that they drew along pictures they took with a digital camera. In my example, my pictures and power point was too large, where it took a long time to download into voice thread. I then incorporated some pictures I got from the creative commons on Flickr. Now going through the process there would be a few things that I would do differently. I would definitely cut down on the number of high quality pictures, so putting them into voice thread wouldn't take so long. I am not too familiar with lowering the quality on my digital camera, but my scanner at work asked me how I wanted to scan the pictures. I didn't think saving the pictures in the highest quality would be that big of a deal...I was wrong. Also I don't know if I am missing something, but timing out the 20 seconds was a little difficult because I was using my watch while my niece was doing the talking. If students used the timer on the computer, I think it would be easier to know when the 20 seconds was up....I can't believe I didn't think of it before. I would have liked to include music, but I was at a lost on how to do it. Finally I would have like to switch characters, but I think that would have taken up too much of the 20 seconds.