Final Blog
As I develop as an interpreter of the natural world, being self-aware of my own ethics, beliefs, responsibilities, and suitable approaches is vital if I am to create meaningful experiences for individuals throughout my life. Analyzing these topics individually is important as they each hold much weight in how I as a developing interpreter, function and will learn to function in the future.
When I focus on my personal ethics and what ethics I believe are objectively rudimentary, I like to remember that most often than not, simplicity is best. This brings to light statements such as donāt harm others, or help those in need, as than can be unpacked to be quite complex statements, but their value is within their broad simplicity, making them applicable to almost any situation. To connect these ideas to my own interpretation of the natural world requires me to be self-aware of my past, present, and future, being the best human, I can be at my current place in time, while simultaneously improving on who I used to be. For example, actively listening to the natural world around me in place of pushing my opinions onto the world. Then and only then can I begin to broaden my interpretive practice to an audience, as I would be actively conveying the world, avoiding as much bias as possible.
At the beginning of these blogs, I had decided to attempt to focus on being an interpreter specifically for tissue culture and plant propagation, believing that picking a specific area to focus on and related course work to throughout ENVS 3000. I believe this was the right choice although at times it was difficult to specifically relate course content, it allowed beginning practicing what it was like to communicate specific scientific language and techniques to a broader audience that may not have experienced such topics before. Only through such exercises can I improve as an interpreter.
Being on the cusp of both finishing this course as well as finishing university, I am beginning to acknowledge my responsibilities with regards to what I have learned from university, these include many things, from how I learned to learn, to how I communicate to the people around me. From this, continuing to practice communicating scientific research and ideas is a responsibility I believe I have, being self-aware enough to know the importance of making knowledge available to everyone in any audience, from learning other languages to addressing privilege.
Throughout ENVS 3000 we were tasked to use podcasts and blogs as media for such communication, and even though I have not experienced or practiced such skills before it was eye-opening in terms of real-life media consumed every day. Both blogs and podcasts are consumed in vast amounts daily around the world and beginning to practice creating such media for any purpose let alone those of nature interpretation and environmental education is vital as a nature interpreter simply because it's more experience. Whether it is an approach that I feel is suitable for me is hard to say as I have only briefly experienced creating these media, but overall practicing communicating any interpretation to anyone is valuable.























