Walking into the first tutorial of the semester, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I was unable to attend the lecture – attending future ones will also be a problem – so I felt a little uneasy about what we were going to be doing. From what I had read on the media factory site, we would be running a blog from the beginning of this semester and perhaps for the rest of our media careers. I was quite nervous about this for the closest thing to a blog I have used is my tumblr page which I don’t post actual thoughts or observations on. I am also pretty intimidated by the technical things such as changing themes or settings – I remember asking my friends to change my themes on my Myspace page years ago.

The class was fairly straight forward. It was mostly spent figuring out how to set up our blog to be more personal. I feel as though this blog will encourage me to think a lot more freely about everyday life and the observations I make. To me this class is very similar to Writing Media Texts which I enjoyed. The idea of the blog reminds me of the journals which we filled with reflections, ideas and brainstorms. I guess the only difference I can see is that we are not creating something – a movie, photograph etc. However I am looking forward to the rest of semester as this opens up a range of new experiences.