Most Hilarious ToK Powerpoint Presentation EVER!!!!!

We are now preparing for our oral presentations in ToK. We have to get up in front of the class for ten minutes and talk about real-life experiences, knowledge issues, Ways of Knowing, etc. Quick side note: I'd like to point out how everything in ToK sounds more official and intimidating when "of knowledge" (or some slightly modified form thereof) is added to the end. The words "theory," "area" and "way" are normal everyday words, but they take on a whole new meaning when combined with the aforementioned term: "Theory of Knowledge," "Area of Knowledge" and "Way of Knowing" sound much more impressive. Kinda reminds me of the Spongebob episode "New Student Starfish" where Patrick goes to school to see the stairs, and then the Stairs of Learning. Anyway, I was on Blackboard (read: I was bored) a while ago and the words contained in the title of this post caught my eye, in the "Oral Presentation" folder. Of course I had to click it. So I did. And it really was the most hilarious ToK PowerPoint presentation ever. The next day I asked Miss Davey for the story behind it, having made the assumption that she had made it as an example of what not to do and chosen a random student's name to put on the title slide, but this was not the case. You see, we get two opportunities to do the presentation; if the first one doesn't go well, we have another chance. According to her, Brian Quigley, now a senior, was extremely busy on the days leading up to his presentation. He had a math internal assessment due, along with several other big assignments, that left him no time to prepare. He had explained the situation to Miss Davey, who agreed that it would be better just to wait for the second opportunity, as only the better of the two is counted. He would, however, need to do something to get the class credit for completion. The result was this PowerPoint, which Miss Davey showed us in class several days later, pretending to be Brian and giggling the entire time. I emailed him to ask permission to use the it here, which he said was fine. Therefore, this post's special thanks go to Brian for letting me use his PowerPoint. And also to Miss Davey for putting it on Blackboard. I asked him for any further information he had to offer, and he responded, "The story is true, I did it just to complete it. I had a math portfolio due that day, so I was not prepared to work on a ToK project also. I did it in about a half hour at 5am. When I was about to present it, I realized how dumb it really seemed, so I was a bit nervous. The presentation seemed to start off normal, but then as we got further in, everyone was laughing. Some slides I couldn't even read, because I was laughing so hard."

So that's about enough from me for now...let's get to it!

Most Hilarious ToK Powerpoint Presentation EVER!!!!!

Works Cited

Quigley, Brian. "TOK Presentation." ToK Oral Presentation. International Academy, Bloomfield Hills.