Coming back from mid semester holidays was a little harder than I thought it would be; I got used to sleeping in, not having to worry about anything being due, or whether I had done any readings for the next week. Not saying I wasn’t also a little excited to get into learning new things again, I was. But still, being lazy at home was slightly more appealing at the time. So, I did in fact come into semester two a little scared, yet excited at the same time…

And now, sitting here after completing my first week of Networked Media, I can say that I really did enjoy both the first  ‘unlecture’ and tutorial for this subject.

I found the Unlecture to be really interesting, and I enjoyed listening to everything that was discussed. The talk of how mostly everyone in the Western world these days has a media making product in their pocket, or in their home, was fascinating. I guess until then, I’d never really thought about it in such a sense, in my mind, creating film and television and radio, was only for the people who could afford the best equipment and crews to make it happen. I guess I, and many other people, have just been taking technology, such as the iPhone, and it’s ability to make good quality media, for granted. Listening in the unlecture this week was really easy and insightful, I feel like it was a great way to segway into the course and what we will be dealing with for the next semester.

As for the tutorial, I found it also to be enjoyable. Going over all the assessment details helped me get more organised and setting up this blog was fun. I spent a lot of the time going over ideas in my head for possible blog posts, and I guess at first, and still a little now, the thought of updating a blog every week was and is quite daunting.. In my head I keep thinking, ‘what am I going to write my blog posts about?’, ‘How will I have enough to say in order to write the required amount of posts each week?’. Yeah, I still don’t really know the answers. However, I do know that whatever happens, updating this blog will be a fun way to stay on track and learn everything I need to throughout this course, and also a fun way to talk about things that interest me not only as a media student, but as a person outsid eof university life.

So overall, after making it past the initial, ‘I can’t be bothered going back to uni,’ post holidays stage, I enjoyed what I learnt in my first week as a Networked Media student, and I look forward to everything else to come in this course!