Human body redesign project blog

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Summary:
        The immune system protects your body from all kinds of sicknesses but it has some problems. The white blood cells are cells that get rid of the virus by shooting antibodies and other white blood cells will come and devour the sickness. One problem is that the white blood cells can take a long time to get rid of a sickness. The white blood cells will also sometimes attack your red blood cells or your good cells. The skin also has some flaws like. The main one is that the skin is easy to puncture and for things to get through for things to get into your body. We want to make it so that the skin is thicker so that it is harder for things on the outside of the body to get into the body. We would have to make it so that the skin is stretchier and there are more ways to sweat so you don't overheat. We want to make the white blood cells smarter and so that there are more white blood cells.


Backward-looking: What process did you go through to produce this piece?
        To make this piece we had to start out alone and write 8 blogs in 2 weeks about each of the systems and we had to have an idea of what we could change about that system to make it better. We also had to make sure that all of them had 35 or more points in order to work in groups. When we got into our groups we had to find out what system we wanted to re- design. We had to talk and find out what we wanted to redesign about that system and why. After we had an idea we had to start working on a document asking things like what the original design was, what we wanted to redesign, etc. Then we had to write an essay based off of the questions. When we were done with the essay we had to create a presentation that we had to present to the class. Finally we presented and watched each other get to present.


Inward-looking:  How do you feel about this piece of work? What parts of it do you particularly like? Dislike? Why? What did/do you enjoy about this piece or work?
        I enjoyed getting to do this project with my group and that we got to learn lots about the human body and what can be different about it to make it better. I liked that we did most of the re-search before we started the project so that we had an idea about what we were doing before we did it. I did not like that we had to write so much before we got to start the project because for me it was a little hard. I enjoy this piece of work because we did not get to chose our groups because most of the time we would just chose our friends. I like that we got to all do different things like how some of the people did board games and how we got to play them when they were done. I enjoyed that we all got to have fun presenting and getting to write about each other's presentation.



Outward-looking: What the one thing you particularly want people to notice when they look at your work?
        When people watch our presentation I want people to be able to recognize that we put lots of effort into our work. I also want people to notice that the body that we have may not be the best design that it could be but that sometimes different designs could not work or be very hard to accomplish. When people read our essay I want them to know that we put lots of effort into making it at the same time as having a little bit of fun learning about the different things that our wrong with our body and how we can fix them. I want them to know that we did lots of research to find the stuff that we did like how we can make it so that the white blood cells can reproduce fast by adding a couple mouse genes into it. 


Forward-looking: What would you change if you had a chance to do this piece over again?
        If I got to do this project over again I would make it so that my group worked a little more on the script part of the presentation so that we would not mess up. I would want to make it so that we would have done the project faster and so that we had extra time after we were done to work on final touches. I think that we could have made a couple of changes to the essay and to the presentation. I would want to make sure that when we were presenting we would not get confused and that we would not have said anything like umm. I would like to change that in the presentation we repeated ourselves on somethings. I think that we did good but there were definitely some things that we could have changed.