Throughout the Future Cultures (BCM325) subject, I have often questioned myself about the purpose of writing reflections on my role as a feedback producer of my peers’ presentations. While feedback receipt generates a critical self-reflection (Nicol et al. 2014: 102), which plays a cardinal role in the higher education independent learning environment (Nicol et al. 2014: 113), feedback provision appears to hold little reflective values. I used to ponder that feedback provision was a non-reciprocal process, which only benefited my peers’ (the receivers) performances and somehow, my tutor’s (the main feedback producer) workload share. Hence, I found commenting on my classmates’ projects time-consuming.

However, my perspective changed in this second round of peer-commenting on Oliva’s, Jessica’s and Susie’s beta presentations of digital artefacts (DA). By employing dual roles as a reader and a researcher, I felt that I could suggest further research directions, enrich my friends’ justifications for method usage…

Prior to the making of this video, I have collected feedback from a wide range of channels, including a survey, informal chats with friends, people at the MakerSpace and Unishop, as well as done a self-experiment, which you can find on my Twitter and this post. I would like to send my special thanks to my BCM325 subject coordinator – Chris Moore, and all of my friends, BCM325 classmates and other UOW students and staff for their help and support. I really appreciate their time and efforts in giving me feedback and other assistance.

Live-tweeting, in particular, and the whole BCM325
subject, in general, is the uncharted waters I have long avoided venturing into
due to my quite low-tech self and aversion to sci-fi films. As multi-screens (film
screen and Twitter screen) demand high levels of divided
attention, I was afraid that these screens would distract me from either
enjoying the films or engaging in online discussions with my fellows. Contrary
to my initial thoughts, live-tweeting indeed compliments my watching
experience. These are evident in the below curation of my comments and
reactions during five in-class screenings of BCM325, which I regard as the milestones
of my first phase in the subject.