Review of Poter Presentation

Today, I had my poster presentation. I felt a bit nervous before I do it, but because we had many opportunities to do the presentation in the last terms, I could be more confident and relaxed.

Feed Back Qs

1. How did this exercise help you to improve your communication skills?
I think through presenting my poster and interview results to the audience I improved presentating more fluently and efficiently.
However I still need to work on keeping eye contact and use the poster efficiently.
More presentation we have, more efficiently we can present our opinion.

2. what advice can you give classmates about poster design?
I found a lot of interesting posters. When I tried to make my own poster, I needed to think how to design efficiently very much. Everyone had different ways of representing their ideas.
I thought download pictures from Internet, print it out and stick it on your poster is nice to see.
Rather using text to explain, using visual aids is better to catch audience's attention.
But on the other hand, if you do not use visual aids appropriately, it does not work.
I did not put enough texts, so I need to work on it next time.
Or we can cut the poster not only in a square shape, but various shapes.

Interview Questions

I am thinking to ask those questions to my interviewee.
My interests in bioethics and especially human cloning is what is cloned person's identity, the needs by society and effecs on soiety. Thus, I chose those questions to ask in order to get different opinions about these.

1. Why do you think we need human cloning technology? Or what reason is there to develop such technology?

This question is for getting general view points of the person I interview about cloning.

2. If you were the cloned person, how do you feel about it? Do you feel superiority or inferiority to the original?

3. What makes you to think so?

These two questions are for interviewee to think more deeply about human cloning and its problems.

4. I think the biggest issue on human cloning is the identity of cloned person. Do you think identity is important? Why and Why not?

This derectly related to how the interviewee think about identity of cloned people.

5. What is your identity?

This question seems to be unrelated to the topic; however, I want to know whether there is difference between us and cloned people in a view of identity. So, I made this question to ask.

Please feel free to make comments on my questions!

Thanks,

Interview Practice

Last Friday in CM class, I have interiewed Shoko about "If you could genetically engineer your child, would you do so? Why or Why not?" in order to practice interview in a particular format and to share the class together.
Shoko would choose her child to engineer genetically only if it is proved to be safe. This is because if her child has any physical diseases, he or her will not feel comfortablw in school or society. In addition to this, the problems such as cost made her to choose gene engineering. However, she strongly disagree with changing his or her characters.
I found that her position is very clear and she had her own vision towards genetical engineering; therefore, interview went very well. By listening her opinion, it seemed that she had imagined about the situation seriously and also expected what would happen to her children if they had serious physical disease.
I agree with her idea against changing children's characteristics; however, I cannot agree with genetical engineering in the first place. I do not interfere my child's life in any ways, because the life is his or hers. Thus, I want to give them at least a chance to choose what they want. Decision of genetical engineering all depends on parents and children have not choice. That is why I do not want my children to be engineered genetically.

Bioethics Interests

My current interests in bioethics is clonings, in vitro fertilization and genetic engineering.
Basically the staff which are relates to birth or babies and children.
How human beings is created, exist is very interesting to me, because no one can say what is the truth.

Also I have discussed about brain death in ARW class today which was interesting in terms of what death is. People have different views in seeing death and life. Some says that if the person cannot communicate with the others, it does not mean that the person is existing. Is it true?
There are so many informations and opinions. I do not feel I have enough knowledge to create my own view point in it so that I would like to increase my knowledge and discuss about them with people who have different point of view.

In addition to this, bioethics can connects to the other areas of studies such as philosophy, economic, antholopology, international studies and so on. It is needed to establish clear, logical idea of my own; however, I would like to go through various ideas and opinions in order to extent my interests.

If you have some ideas of what is death and alive, let me share your ideas. That would be very helpful.

Thanks,