I’ve read a lot of other people’s views on this weeks unlecture and they all seem to be quite negative. In all honesty I think that is pretty unfair. I was brought up to believe that there are positives in everything, so that’s what I will focus on in this blog post. (Even though criticism is constructive, I think there has been enough of that).

I really enjoy not being force-fed stacks of information regarding ‘networked media’ as if we are back in year 12 cramming for a test. All those points we write down off the slides… who actually remembers any of that? Yes sure, maybe in a week you will remember a few, even in a month or year… But in 5 years? 10? When we are all grown up and working in the media industry none of that will even remotely stick with us I’m sure. Once the lectures get passed the ‘how you learn properly, basics of education’ stage and give us some substance to actually learn, I’m sure they will become more successful.

Personally I have a lot of trouble focussing on something for more than a few minutes. In lectures I end up softly singing, listening to music, playing games on my laptop, playing games on my phone, googling random things I wonder about like what are the different types of clouds called, emptying my bag for chocolate, eating, annoying people next to me, playing with play dough, sleeping or just day dreaming. Ask anyone who has ever sat next to me, especially Eddie, and they will tell you how short my attention span is on things that don’t interest me. So this sort of lecture, where the lecturer is constantly seeming to have a conversation with the audience, is a lot more entertaining.

It’s the lecture that grabs the most of my attention out of the whole course.

This ‘unlecture’ was the first I attended due to my boss living it up in Las Vegas last week, (I had to work every day at the shop to cover shifts).

I found the approach of the unlecture pretty different but cool like when you mix parmesan with honey (TRY IT, IT’S DELICIOUS I PROMISE).

I actually learnt quite a bit about blogging including spam filters, copyright issues ($80,000 fines… BE CAREFUL) and what to put on your blog.
I also learnt that Mattel in America scour the internet for anything Barbie related…

I didn’t know that these blog posts were in fact meant to be really short. Here I was, thinking that a blog post would have to at least reach a 500 word limit. Blog posts are actually just supposed to be informal little sketches of ideas I guess. That really inspired me to throw in random things from my head onto my blog like food and songs.

Basically blogs are full of everything and anything and my blog will be whatever crazy things run through my mind.

This lecture to me will be forever remembered as the “Tell it to My Heart” lecture, because that song was on repeat in my head. The people sitting around me heard. They probably also saw my detailed drawing of a pizza.