Hey Hey,

In typical Blaire Gillies fashion, I’ve been avoiding this for weeks but, like getting braces and bangs, I’ve decided that it’s better do do it late than not do it at all. The last thing I want is to leave it until my first mid-life crisis and not submit anything for Networked Media until I’m forty- that’s just a little bit more depressing than it is funny.

Anyway, how about I say something relevant. The unlectures. There is potential for a structure like this to be successful, I just don’t think we’re there yet. My main suggestion would be simply to go into each unlecture with a topic list to direct the subject of questions being asked. I’m not good at vague. It makes me edgy and uncomfortable and I think that I would be more inclined to participate and submit questions if I were given a more specific directive.

I am entirely in support of the ‘No Laptop’ rule. While I have never personally used a laptop in a lecture,  I frequently find myself distracted by reading what the people sitting in front of me are doing on the weekend, or noticing which scary photos of their duck-faced friends are being liked instead of reading lecture slides.

I’m still not overly fond of this blogging thing, so that’s all you get for now. Plus my washing is done and I could really do with a cup of tea.
Goodnight folks. x