Reflection on group wiki

During the last section, we formed a group with 5 member and contribute to the wiki. During the group discussion, i think that co-operation is the most important factor. All the members must contribute in order to accomplish the wiki. During the group dicussion, we can gain more knowledge because every person have different opinion. As a group member, i've learned how to accept feedbacks and to contritube. Everything went smoothly and we had our job done very fast.

During the discussion, we are given a short question based on the topic. Everybody was fighting over the first question so teacher suggested to have a ballot. Unfortunately, we got the last quetion. After we had studied the case, i found the question is not hard at all and we got it done. My group members and i walk around the class to get opinion from the other group,

In conclusion, i simply like group discussion because it help us to interacts with other people and stimulates our thinking. I enjoyes working together with others.

Twitter or blog

HELLO! Today i would want to talk about Blog and twitter ;)
Actually i have my personal blog, which is currently not very up to date because im very busy to post something very long.. hehes.
So the below is a picture of my personal blog.

At first, i wasn't those hardcore blogger. When my friend asked about:"hey do you have blog?" i was like hey friend, i dont like to post a story of my own and show it to people all over the world! But after my friends persuade me , i decided to create a blog.. and i eventually fall in love with it!! :) Is fun afterall! i would start to blog again when im really free! Next time when im old i can just read back and see what have happened in my past.

As for twitter, i just joined like not long ago.persuaded by my teammates. After a while i was hook by twitter because the way of expressing your feelings its kinda interesting.  Because i owned an iphone so is very convenient for me to tweet! is like a mini blog to me! This is one of the  the reason i stop blogging i guess. Tweeting my emotion at the moment is fun. Your friends who followed you would know what you are doing all the time..  So, i prefer tweeter more than blog because it is short and sweet and you can tweet anytime!  

My dream holiday.

When i was about 6 years old my aunt and the whole family  migrated to Australia.
When i am still a little kid, i always send letters(due Internet was not so advance last time) to my aunt who dotes me lot. In her letter she will tell me how Australia look like and photos of the scenery and what she eat there, how cold is the weather during winter and how "angmo" so called Caucasians celebrate Christmas there.So i always wanted to visit Australia when im a grown up adult.

So far what i know about Australia is very limited. All i know is the koala bear, kangaroo,deers,apple trees, a white coloured building( i think is call some opera theater) located at Sydney and their nice tulips.....Oh ya, my aunt told me that their chirstmas is very hot, cause is summer time!

Alright, stop my crap. hehe. i visited the australia's official tourism website to find out more on australia.

I found that the layout and the design of the website is very attractive. it is so colourful and is very easy to access. I can just click on the tab and they will link us to the pages i wanted.

The website is also very convenient. There is a tab down there which is enable us to plan our holiday from booking air tickets,  accommodation to travel around australia.

other than that, the website also state the events going on in australia, i think this is to attract more tourist to visit their country. the wallpaper is so nice, i wonder if i would able to see this when i visit australia one day.

i found this site(things to do) is very interesting. It helps us to discover the experiences that make the holiday unique in australia. All this includes canoeing and kayaking, cultural attraction and there is a part for youth travellers.

If you fell like visiting the cities of australia but don't know which one to go, don't worry! this website also provides a list of cities that tell you what is special in the city and you may want to take a look of it.

if you afraid of getting lost, they also provide maps in the website. you can just click on it and print it for further reference!

This is a tourism australia newest tv advertisement.

i love this song so much! is so happy! i think i heard it some where before in singapore, just cant figure out where is the exact place!

Australia in second life is so much different from the real world. nothing look the same except the australia flag. I find it boring in second life.

Practical 7

For this week, our class learnt about what is Citizen Journalism.
Let me briefly talk about what is Citizen Journalism.
Citizen journalism is when private individuals do essentially what professional reporters do – report information. That information can take many forms. It can include text, pictures, audio and video. But it’s basically all about communicating information of some kind. From my point of view, i think that citizen journalism is a good way for normal people like us to evaluate their point of view, their opinion on certain matter.

During the lesson, we were given a task to form our own group to discuss and evaluate STOMP based on purpose,coverage,authority,accuracy and currency. Our group members contains 5 members. All of us are from different country(singapore, malaysia, china and indonesia). While we were discussing on stomp, all of us keep making fun of boonseong(who is a Singaporean) due to the "Singapore seen" news.  This is because stomp always show embarrass moment of the locals. (we are very bad i know:) )

For the evaluate part, i would like to work on accuracy and currency.

I find that for STOMP, information may not be that accurate bacause information in the STOMP

website is not posted by professionals.STOMP is open to everyone as long as they are registered members. Due to not everyone are proffesionals, the source of the information may not be confirmed and even there are images or video to support their post, alterations might be done to those so called evidence.Other than that, the informations provided by them may be bias thus it maybe misleading.

As for currency, i think that stomp is always up to date as there is always new post everyday and sometimes there is also follow up of certain matters.

If i were to create my own stomp base on my research topic, i would like to have a reference catagory where the stompers would put the link or title of the books or journal to support their information. next, i will recomments the stomper to do a research first before posting, this is because i dont want my stomp to become a site which will mislead my readers.

MY BAD

Im so busy these day and i was paying a lot of attention on my projects. Until teacher reminded us that we need to update our blog,i realize that i have missed out a lot of post and one of them is still in my draft! I think im gonna do badly for this CDS. gosh! So worried! SAVE ME! Anyway, instead of asking someone to save me, i should save myself by doing my late work. HAIZ!

i shall start with the TP search databases:

EbscoHost Research Database

The search uses boolean equation which is and, not, or  to do an advance search.
It also allow us to pick on the field so that the results will be more accurate.

The search results showed is arrange in order however the search result is not the exact information I wanted and is helpless to my research.

ScienceDirect Subject Collections

It contains journal articles on subject like Agricultural and biological sciences,biochemistry, etc... (all science based). I chosen this because my topic is science related topic.

The search results showed had a wide range which is 100 and the result shown is quite relevant to my research and i find the results shown is in order, is in PDF format, with citation and is able to give us a preview. This helps to save our time in reading the unwanted information.

I find it useful.

I think it is more effective to search the invisible web (databases) than using search engines, meta-search or subject directories if i am working on projects related to my course or school work as database provides factual and abstract of the text information. As compare to other search engines databases provides me much reliable information and is usually up-to-date information.

They are welly maintained by government or organizations. Other than that, when we are using someone's word as information, citation is very important, as the citation is given in the databases, i can just copy and paste it. this will save my time to find for the author names or others.

  

4th week

we were assigned to compare the effectiveness of various search engines this week and this is what i found! hees!

METACRAWLER



MetaCrawler is a metasearch engine that blends the top web search results from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Ask.com, About.com,  MIVA,  LookSmart and other popular search engines. MetaCrawler also provides users the option to search for images, video, news, yellow pages and white pages. It is used to provide the option to search for audio.

Metacrawler has a very small range of search result. (Proximal 3 pages)

However, the search results are obtained from links of other search engines like Google, Bing, etc.

Next i would like to talk on subject directories:

i have choosen galaxy for example.

GALAXY

Subject Directories like Galaxy consist of large catalogs or indexes of web sites covering a multitude of subjects that have been reviewed, gathered together and organized by human editors. Directories are organized hierarchically into many different subjects or categories. It is easy for a user to browse through the lists of web sites found under each subject or category.

The results are obtained from different organisation pages. (Research centre, museum)Results are relevant as mostly are from research centre and unis.They provide relevant calculations and scientific info on the topic.Galaxy has a wide range of search results.Galaxy allow us to search website from certain country but the results will only show us stories, politics, sports, entertainment and etc.

This is what i found out during this lesson i would try to use these two website next time when im conducting a search! Thanks to this CDS if not i wouldnt know that these two website exist! ;)

 

My second life e-learning

Is time for me to post my blog again!

Today i shall post about my second life virture shopping.

During our last lesson, teacher gave us a list of shopping places and asked us to explore and compare. So i pick Mia as my shopping destination.

Before that i thought i would have to purchase linden dollars for this virture shopping so i went to check it out on the website.

I was stunned because i have to pay for it using my master card..So i send an email to my teacher as seek for help!

Luckily teacher explained to me what i should do for this e-learning week. If not i think i would have have things to blog for this week and i have already spent my money on the linden dollars! phew...

next, my computer lags, is so hard for me to play SL because my avatar is not moving..

But after awhile you will see her flying or walking non stop and i hate it.

The thing i like best about this virtual experience which i cant get i real life is that i can anyhow talk to the person beside me and make friends with them.

I bet if you do it in your real life, people will say you crazy and ignore you.

During the shopping period, i have know a lot of friend and this girl im talking to eventually came from UK. Gosh, i have a overseas friend online! haha

Other than that, second life provide us teleport and flying features.

this save us a lot of time because we no need to walk there! In real life im that lazy too although im a volleyball player. hahas

i went into a shop named Gigi.

i was with my friend online actually. we planned to do together so that we can help out each other.

i walk around and i thought i can try on the clothes or shoes, but when i click on the picture, it pop out a window and ask me to purchase it.

I'm broke, so i couldn't afford anything in second life. hahas

i click on every picture and i came across this,

a free socking!

so i grab it without paying it!

then i went out of Gigi and i went to other shop.

this shop looks so unique from the outside so i decided to walk in.

i love to enter those funny funny shop actually. i want to know what's inside or what they selling.

As compare to E shopping online, i think i will love second life shopping spee more because i need not worried that i will get cheated by the seller or maybe delay in receiving my stuffs.

In second life, i need not worried how much i would spent because it is virture and it wont affect much on me. But if you do online shopping, you will start to worried after you pay: does the clothes fit well? when am i going to receive my clothes? will it have flaws on my stuffs?

thousands thousands of question will appear in your brain and you will feel so stress because you had already pay your order.

other than that, second life have a lot of products and ranging from different style, colours, length and cost.

i found this model wearing this tube dress and i eventually have one that look almost the same! haha

i went to TP and take a few screen shot.

well, it does look like our school!

haha

i went to my eng school and take a look in the office.

and i found my course!

BIE

At the end of the day, i have learnt that other than those social website we can still make friends through game like this.

It is also a place for shy people like me take the first step out to get to know other people. This is because no one know your true identity and you can say whatever you want.

And in SL, you can dress whatever your want because no one would care bout your looks.

But we cant live in SL forever, we need to face reality, but i was a good place thou for us to dream.