This week’s UNlecture really focused on the blogs for the course and it was helpful to get some information regarding all the technicalities we should know about; like copyright, content we should post about and security. But I think the key idea of the UNlecture was ‘participation’ and just how important it is in this course. The fact is that the assignments are a product of your own nurturing, and primarily what you achieve is up to you.

Aside from the content, I did find the UNlecture to still be in a lecture-ey format with Adrian up the front talking for majority of the time. Like he noted this is somewhat to do with the architectural structure of the room, as it’s built up around the notion of how the space should be used, slanting towards a common viewpoint. However I think that the UNlecture has the ability to develop into a more discussion based environment with time. I like the idea of handing paper around to write down questions to be answered, but perhaps this could be done beforehand as it takes some time to sort through the paperwork before actually getting to the questions.