241109 Online tutorial (No physical lesson)

241109 - No lesson was conducted but we had to do online tutorials.
Activity 2 – Individual Blog Activity
1. How do you feel about posting your views on the topic posted on OLE Online Discussion Forum? Can you express your views freely?

It depends as long the language use is not vulgar and offensive. Our views need to have some balance between agreeing and disagreeing. We can improve by commenting our views to other users politely.

2. How does this online discussion experience compared with traditional face-to-face in-class discussions?

It certainly feels different as we are not interacting with each other, but ultimately, we can also share our views be it face to face or online discussion.

3. Do you find this online activity meaningful? Why?

Yes, we can search for online resources as well as interact with other users at the same time.

171109 prac 4 and 5

EIR 5th lessons on practical 4 & 5, we learnt new internet research facilities which is Meta search engines and other subject directories.

Meta Search Engines also known as metacrawlers or multi-search engines. It searches key words simultaneously to several search engines such as yahoo and google as they do not have their own database of web pages.It eliminates and comes up with the prominent key words as well as the larger number of potentially higher quality references.

Subjects directories, also known as subject catalogs.It searches in topical lists arranged in a hierarchical way. It tells the user the key words and availability of the potential website.I feel metacrawlers are much more useful than search directories as more relevant websites to help me with my search queries.

Using wiki is useful as we can exchange views and learn something new with different ideas and views. I feel that through wiki's, it can develop and widen our thinking with useful ideas that are being exchanged.

4th lesson..

On 101109,Miss Farida taught us the features on google and google scholar. Both search engines are tools for doing research on topics that the user intends to search for. Both search tools provide the same search functions with a little difference. For google,it search tool is more of general information of the key word that is typed. For google scholar,it cross reference the key word with information on books,citations as well as articles. At the end of the day,it depenes on the user's choice to choose the search tool that is more productive and informative. I am impressed with google and its search functions,very user friendly to do our research with tons of valid result. I have just started discussion forums,it could really help with people's views on the topic. Citations are important so that to prove we do not copy other people's research and finding and also to acknowledge them.

Next up - activity 2....Internet shopping!!

I was introduced to twitter today. "So wat is the difference between blogs and twitter?" Miss Farida asked. My mind went blank. "Isn't it the same?" I asked myself. Well, we have done our activity 1. Our next activity proved to be somewhat challenging for me as I have never done shopping online. Its difficult to trust online stuff. Whereas one of my best friend does it online to help him get bike accessories from other parts of the world easily. Well, back to our activity 2, one thing that really came to my mind was the Star Wars lightsaber replica fx with build-in sound and cool lightings.Im a big fan of Star Wars especially Master Yoda, I have already bought one at Plaza Singapura at Douby Ghout level 4. Money worth spending if its the thing you like.

Online shopping websites such as amazon.com for example is one website I learnt that we can do our shopping at the comfort of our living room. Its a new learning environment for me with so many things to update myself about the internet. Next activity is none other than FACEBOOK!!! social networking website. Hope to leanrn more about this subject.

1st lesson..

On 261009,Our teacher, Miss Farida showed us the first lecture on the topic "Introduction to Internet Resources 1". She introduced the various internet research facilities that use for various purposes. We had to choose our choice of research topic that we want to research on.As for me, the topic I choose is "Discuss the impact of gambling on our youth". I find it that it's an issue that is seriously on the rise. There were a lot of internet resources that we can use in doing our research such as Blogs & Wikis, Online Forums, Multimedia sources, WWW sites and etc. We got started on doing our practical 1 after Miss Farida had briefed us on the 1st topic but we only asked to complete the activity 1. I have learnt there are quite a number of interesting websites that we can do our research topics and help us to gather the infomation that we need.