Week 2 – Unlecture

Learn through doing.

The Week 2 Lecture/Unlecture was in the form of a Q and A session. We were asked to write down the questions that had come out of the first week with the only restriction being that they commenced with a ‘what’ or ‘why.’ Most of these were surrounding the blogs in terms of content, usage guidelines and assessment. Adrian placed an emphasis in tutorials in highlighting what worked and didn’t work about this format. I guess I felt that most students didn’t offer up a question, mostly due to fear of asking a silly question and also being put on the spot to do so and because of this the lecture fell a little flat. The take away message here being that we drive this course, if we want answers we must ask questions and if we want debate we must provoke. There is no spoon feeding here.

Blog often and blog informally.

Out of one of the student questions, Adrian explained that we are encouraged to personalise our posts. To use the course content in contexts that we are knowledgable in and passionate about. We will make mistakes here, in fact we are encouraged to. No post will be perfect, no idea complete.

Bumper sticker: we must be knowledge producers.

As tertiary students we are accustomed to researching, studying and scrutinising other peoples ideas. Networked Media is a chance for us to become creators.The student Wiki, which we will all contribute to, will help with this