Reflection. Week 3. 7 November 2008.

Today we are doing EIR Wiki. Group work!!! We are doing the topic on Cyberbully. Cyberbully is a pretty interesting topic. Through this topic, I understand a lot about this topic. I have got several problems while trying to do EasyEdit. It failed to let me upload twice.

Overall, this module rockSSSSSSS! (: I have learnt a lot about using internet as my future research use. (:

Reflection.Week 3. 6 November 2008

We had a discussion on Youtube. The functions that Youtube has, the direction of where Youtube is heading to, the downside of Youtube, who are the person doing the website and the the future of Youtube.

How good is Youtube ? It is definitely for people like me ! Watching out for song videos, dramas and some other videos that can be found on the website. This website is where people shared videos. Practically everything can be found on the website. There are even funny videos like Achmed. It is superb interesting website. Related links by the side would bring us a chain of other interesting videos. Youtube is believed to be the biggest site for video for all.

Reflection. Week 3. 3 & 4 November 2008.

My Dream Holiday

That would be ..... France ! (: Out of the 9 evaluation criterias, Purpose, Coverage, Authority, Accuracy, Currency, Accessibility, Presentation and Arrangement, Usability and Overall Quality.The evaluation criterias I used for this webite are Coverage, Authority presentation and arrangement.

This website will lead me to the other websites like for example, the plane, train, hotel, tour operator and etc which will help me to organise for my trip. There are also deals and news about the place. The links on the website are useful in the sense that it gives us information on what I need to know. For authority, I need to ensure that the website is no scam and that it is reliable for me. The presentation and arrangement are quite clear. There is a flash on top of the page, showing the different interesting places in France. Other than that, there are more information by the side to give me ore references to the place as well.

Why France? Well, I heard many interesting places in France that I want to explore. Like for example, the Eiffel Tower. The website attracts me to go ahead !

Reflection. Week 2. 31st October 2008.

We had our first class test todaaay ! I got 11 out of 20. Didn't read the question properly for 2 questions. Must be careful the next time round !!

Ms Faridah showed us 3 videos from Youtube. It was really hilarious. I smiled till my mouth cramped, for I feared that I would laugh too loudly. XD Next, we were directed to TalkingCock.com. It was a very interesting website, not to mention that it contains humour in it which is in most of us. Many of the posts were referring to typical behaviour of Singaporeans. Not to mention also the lifestyle. It might not be a good education website but it's indeed interesting to be reading them in a very Singlish way. HAHAA... Singaporean's style ;) However, if the admin is not careful, he/she might accidentally mentioned something that is offensive to the readers. Thus, this website must be carefully maintained in case it causes any unnecessary conflicts.

Our class was allocate into 3 different roles. The Prime Minister, Singaporean and a foreigner working/studying in Singapore. For my group, we are given the role as Singaporean. It was fun to be talking from the point of view as each of the role about the website.

Reflection. Week 2. 28 October 2008.

Today we discovered the invisible web which is also known as databases. This is where all the deep information are kept. These web are charged for a small fee in order to have access to them. They are highly authoritative information kept in the form of data. Not only that, they are the information which are more reliable and up-to-date.

Some of the invisible web are the Academic Gateway and Complete Planet.

After attending this lesson, I realised that our school library do have this service too. It allows us to have access to the datas that are actually charged with a fee. Moreover, only staff and student from TP have access to them. They are not available in public search engine. 2 of these are Temask Polytechnic's E-books database ITPRO and the Digital Library Portal Research Gateway.

These invisible web might not be useful in the sense that we might not be able to find what we are looking for. Even though it's reliable and up-to-date. After this lesson, I know about it and will be using it in future for our research.

Reflection. Week 2. 27 Oct 2008

It's a public holiday ! Therefore, we do not need to attend class today. Instead, we were given an e-learning assignment to do. Post discussion on the forum board in OLE. (Online Learning Environment) The topic given was, "Briefly explain how Internet has enriched your academic and social life". We are to give one internet resource and one search facility that we have learnt during lesson.

Together for now, we have learnt about the three internet search facilities. They are:

Search Engines (examples: Google Search, Scholar Google.)
Meta search engines (examples: metacrawler, IxQuick)
Subject directory (examples: Yahoo! directory, Galaxy)

Happy Deepavali !

Reflection. Week 1. 24 Oct 2008.

Today's lecture was about using Metacrawler and Yahoo! Directory.

Okay, let's see what can we talk about these two search engines...
So, the difference between these two search engines are that Metacrawler is like a search engine "searching" for another search engine while Yahoo! Directory search is categorised accordingly to subjects. There are categories like Art & Humanities, Business Economy, Computer and Internet, Education and etc. These categories are more specific and allow us to search for information more efficiently. Metacrawler is more of a machine-compiled search engine whereas Yahoo! Directory is human-complied subject directory and are maintained by professionals. The disadvantage of human-compiled subject engine would mean that we have got lesser choices to select from.

Therefore, we can conclude that the machine-complied search engine would have a likely high number of searches in the database, can be over millions whereas for subject directory, due to the reason that it's human-complied, the number of searches in the database tend to be lesser and they are probably less than millions. The result for subject directory would be more accurate than search engine. As the results are being sorted out by human, they would be classified under subjects accordingly to which they think are more appropriate/suitable and that would certainly help us greatly in terms of saving time.

Before the lecturer ended, we were also taught to link our friend's site feed which means that the post would appear like word form.