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Unit X overall reflection

*Bloggers note: I'm not entirely sure why but the time for my posts is actually 8 hours behind the actual time they were posted. I've checked my settings and can't find a way to change this. For instance my Infographic reflection says it was posted at 04:53 when it was actually posted at 12:53. I know this may probably not matter but just thought I'd mention it.

*Bloggers note: You may realise that I've only done 5 posts (of reviews and such) instead of 6, but the word count for those posts is already at 4600 and something and I know the limit is intended to be 5000 - I could not do an effective review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (as I had intended) in less than 400 words. Plus I'm not editing my review of 2001 because I worked really hard on that.


Personally Unit X was a bit of a mixed bag. Going to the cinemas every week was great, even if some of the films weren't (looking at you Need For Speed) but on the whole there was very little to do in this unit. I know that as students (and as people on the whole) were inclined to leave things until the last minute - which of course is opposite the point of a blog as it should be updated regularly but because there was no impending sense of having to update your blog regularly or how little there was to I found this work could be left until the last minute - and it probably hasn't suffered that much for it. So yes I'm asking for stricter regulation of our work and more work in general. Given that blogging should be done consistently having to submit a post a week would have definitely helped me (and probably a lot of other people judging by the look of the Facebook page) have a sense of immediacy of when this work needs to be done.

Secondly there was almost no need to go to any other seminars for this unit. Unless you needed help writing a post there was little that could be covered as this the unit was that straight forward, this led to our seminars being about an hour long each week and going in for just one hour isn't enough. Given that all of the work is submitted electronically, with regular help posted by Gavin online (not a complaint, his posts were easy to follow and well laid out), the fact that there wasn't much need to go to the seminars, the only real time we were in 'uni' was the cinema screenings, this could easily have been a course unit designed by the Open University.

There were some surprises on this unit, such as how surprisingly enjoyable the infographic task was but beyond this I can't see where the alleged collaboration element is supposed to be. The rest of the unit is done individually, on the computer by yourself. I have learned how to to keep a better track on my blog posts, and now hope to add at least 1 review every week so I guess theres that.

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