ARW Jan 31th

     In anthropology, there is a term to explain human's exchange: giftedness. If one receive something, he or she have a duty to return or pass it. Rab gave us gifts, but we did not return them. This violation of cultural norm is rude as human in any society and situation.
    I know it is meaningless to show the anthropology term and feeling of guilty. What I should and can do is writing my essay, supporting group members, and returning.

3B of W. Warren Wager

 I looked up Wager's history and what he did. He was born in 1932 and died in 2004 in the U.S. He was American historian and future studies scholar. Moreover, he wrote SF novels about future and deeply studied H.G.Wells who is the pionner of SF novels. He published some short stories and essays about future and Wells's political philosophy. To be honest, I cannot find his bias.

ARW Jan 24th

 Today, we learned about the way of peer review (I was absent 1st period because of another class, so I was taught from my group menbers.) and of making google form. I feel the system of comment on google drive is very useful because comments do not interfere with passages. If we check and point mistakes on Microsoft word, it become messy.

Ex) Japan should abolishs(abolish) to death penalty.(- You should write reasons.)

Yet, on google drive, it is clear and easy to understand.
Ex)

The comments are like post-it!
     Google form is also useful to know ordinary opinions and to get primary sources. However, the opinions which we can gather is not equal to the statistics. We cannot control the balance of sample's age, sex, and region. In short, the reliability is not so high. Maybe I won't use google form for essay in this term.  

ARW Jan 20th

     In class, Rab gave us a lecture about structure of essay. Basically, what he said is not very different from what previous ARW teacher said and the contents of SGW or Little Brown. Yet, it is sure that he is good at presentation. Through the lecture, I can get deep understanding and image of good essay. But of course, actual essay is unlike that simple structure. While we see it as a sample, we have to modify the sample in order to make it clear what we want to write. In fact, I have never seen "rules of 3" in ELA reader. To think this fact carefully, I think what we should do is not to write long academic essay but to write many academic essay? It is sure that long writing is helpful for RW, but the idea to make students write many essays is not so bad. It is a subtle selection.

Tech staff- movie

 Last Funky-Friday was awesome. We learned about how to make movie to use some free download soft(?) and application.
・awesome screenshot- This function is equal to the name. I have got used to taking screenshot on iphone. It is very useful, so I feel lucky to know that same function is able to use in my laptop.
・Quick Time Player- Of course I know the existance in my laptop, but I didn't know the function to record voice and movie.
・ MacTube- After the lecture, I rapidly downloaded it, and then, I was surprised at the usefulness. I often miss to find favorite movies, so I will use Mactube in daily life.
・ imovie- I have used this application once. In sea program, I recorded and edited movie that I played slam poetry. I was not good at editing because it was first time and there were no explanation about many function. Yet, Rab's lecture was easy to understand, so maybe I can make better movie for winter project.

Before reading Morioka

     Before reading Morioka, I researched Morioka's 3B(background, biography, bias). He was born in Kouchi prefecture in 1958. Now, he is a professor of philosophy and ethics at Osaka Prefecture University , the director of Research Institute for Contemporary Philosophy of Life , and the editor-in-chief of Journal of Philosophy of Life. He studies "life" from various viewpoints: philosophy, bioethics, gender, environmental ethics, and civilization. As for brain death, he claimed that it is necessary that paitiants declare the will to give their internal organs. Yet, his political standpoint is not obvious.