Finalize your Presentation

Theory of Knowledge Presentation Nights
Tuesday - Thursday September 3-5

Please ready your IA for presentation. Spend all available class time this week ensuring that your googleslide doc helps you/your team show that clear & informed thinking about knowledge issues can make a difference in real life. If necessary, make plans to meet over Labor Day weekend to finalize your product and run through your presentation. All google slides are due to Dr. Orfield at the end of class on Tuesday, September 3rd. You will be expected to stay for the full evening of presentations for which you are scheduled, providing support to other presenters and possibly advice to incoming sophomores and their parents.
Here is a link to the official IB rubric which we will discuss in class on Monday, August 26th:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10RwMpjJcvGE36uUUwLPRO0RvTt0IduMkfVJb6vrYsKA/edit?usp=sharing

For help, please observe my own transition from mid-level product to final product. When you look at my google slides, please do so in full present mode, so you can see how I've layered slides with information.
1. Follow this link to the view-only googleslide anchoring my second presentation run-through, which I gave in one class last spring, and which I shared in video form with the other class:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dSWSr4yzrMMJKB4IL7IImozD-TzujOCwbr5JXoAivsQ/edit?usp=sharing

When I looked at these slides with fresh eyes early this summer, I found much to improve.
2. Here is a link to a copy of the final edited googleslide I will use for my final presentation:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1H-nG8MXlvjuFcSSQJ1R8-ZgcRqg-qk-T6zPOBH82Q5I/edit?usp=sharing
Hopefully you can see more sophistication and clarity emerging, with the overarching mission of the IA (in italics above) accomplished. You should be aiming for the same this week.

Feel free to make a copy of this second googleslide for yourself and copy/paste any of the tools I have employed; particularly helpful might be the symbols signaling important rubric-based goals which we ALL share:

• red hexagon = TOK framework idea for 'effective exploration'
• spectacles = for 'investigation of different perspectives'
• star = for 'discerning' and 'insightful'
• red x = counterclaim, forcing you to make your argument 'convincing'

Also handy is the progression slide, showing how the presentation will develop, although you will need to amend it to reflect your own organization. Use of such symbolic 'short-cuts' can visually impart information which might otherwise require more words/time. Respecting the time limit set by IB is important, both for your grade and for the success of each evening's schedule.

You can do this!