Me Meets World

One of my intentions is to start a YouTube channel that introduces teaches law to the masses. Right now some names are being considered but one of the frontrunners is "LazyLaw". It is a play of word, as if someone is saying "(I'm feeling) lazy lorrr", which is a very Malaysian thing. It is also my way of addressing the audience that these videos will not dive deep into legalities, but just enough to understand some terms or legal situations... and allude to the fact that I am too lazy to be more academic or provide too much references. Call me the BUM of academia if you will.

Other possible titles are: Demystifying Law (a mouthful, and there is already a YouTube channel with this name); LawTeacher (but I do respect Asif Tufal's previous work before his website was sold to an essay service site); AboutLaw (because I want to introduce other series e.g. AboutReading, AboutTeaching, AboutLife, but do I want to?)

For one, the videos will not be more than 15 mins long, a la TED talks. Currently thinking of maybe just 5 mins each a la Prof Fried's contract module on edX.

As with my other abandoned projects, I am still thinking too much about it: the "branding", which colours to use; should I have a common intro phrase like "Hi guys", what should I wear, or should I just do cameras off, or should I just do a Sia and other what-have-yous.

This morning incidentally I did a sharing session with some colleagues from another university: basically it was about our experience of online teaching & how we overcame our challenges, and how they can do it too. It went pretty well. Initially when I started there were about 81 participants and when I stopped there were about 192, and the organisers mentioned that 200 participants had tuned in 😱

Thankfully I was blissfully ignorant- when my slides were shared I had thought well 81 is not too bad & was not able to toggle to the participants list (because I was not the organiser). The good news is: many thought the presentation was useful, and a few probably looked me up on researchgate & found that I have never ever done any research on e-learning 😅 

Well I did mention in the beginning that my sharing is experiential and in no way am I an expert. Perhaps I am a practitioner at best, a teacher. I probably cannot even call myself a lecturer, or an academic, for the basic fact that I do not publish papers.

I digress.

The feedback was quite good, and I appreciate completely their the kind words. Perhaps now is the time to be courageous and introduce my material to the world 🙇