If anything, asking students to keep a blog for Networked media is a wily, yet ingenious scheme to ensure that students are keeping up to date with their work as, not only does it show the date posts are published, but also, it saves teachers lugging home boxes of journals at the end of the semester.

My response to this daunting task, after experiencing a mild panic attack that was semi cured with an entire box of Cadbury Favourites, was, “ what do I write?
The fact that there are “technically” no rules is something that I find, not only impossible but infuriating.
I have always been one of those people who need a clearly set out plan of instructions (preferably colour coded), informing me, what to do, by when, how etc…but it seems to me, this blog is giving me the liberty to take charge of my own learning with not much guidance, no real set of rules, no structure to follow….crap.
This is just like the day I turned 18 and was officially cut off, but marginally worse, as I can’t just drink my worries away and not have to worry about not getting up the next day.
Yes there are set tasks that are to be completed, but aside from this, I am jumping in to the deep end…or rather the shallow end, knowing I will come out with broken legs and a bruised confidence. That is how I am visualising this experience.
But I think back to last semester and the folio…my god, I had no idea where to start (which is probably why I didn’t actually pick up a pen for the first 6 weeks). Will the same thing happen with this blog? Will I eventually find my feet (I think they are still floating around in the pool somewhere), will I figure out a routine? How hard can this be?

In a way, a very small part of me, invisible to the naked eye, is glad that there is no easy way out of this, and that I will actually have to do work each week….
Although the concept of a blog is about as foreign to me as the Chinese language, I am sure that as the weeks progress, my understanding and capabilities will too grow, but for now, I am keeping it simple- at least this way there will be a clear sign of progression at the end of the sememester…if I make it.