Wednesday, May 28, 2008
at first i took the uir as my cds i totally do not know what is it about
but after looking through the title : using internet as a research tool
i realised it is using internet to find information from the web
it is very interesting during my first lab
my facilitator who is Ms faridah
she is sweet and love to joke with us at times >.<
she bought a lot of fun and laughter to us =p
when she taught us about some topics
she explained very clearly and if i have any doubt i will not hestiate to ask her
because she did not have a fierce look which is good
so that when students have problems with the work can ask her without worrying so much whether will she scold.
having this cds is fun and enjoyable
if i ever i had a chance to take it another time i will not regret because this class has many unforgetable memories that makes the cds fun
this cds teaches how to use different types of search engines
what are the relevant keywords to type so that we can find the information fast and relevant
what are some of the websites may be useful to us
learn to reflect on some websites and give comments to it
learn APA style
learn what are the impacts from my discussion topic
learn to create a forum to talk about my topic
from the forum we can learn from others and give our personal's view towards the topic
so that we can have a wide-range of knowledge
this cds will help me in the future in the industry
if i need to do research on topic
we do compare websites so that we will know which website is the better one
and what are the advantages and disadvantages
what are the characteristic
wiki is a good way to communicate with facilitator by submitting our work up
easy to edit and will keep track of our updates
facilitator will know how many words we update and how often we updated our wiki =]
we do have online homework on the discussion board
this is another good way to hand up our homework online and we can post a reply
we can give comments to others as well
this enhances and pull a better communication with people
it teaches us how to handle people to people relationship
when we give comments people learned from there
i had learned how to use the boolean operators as well (E.g. OR, NOT and AND)
What are the differences and the use of the operators
it is very useful!! =D
We learned the limitations of different search engines
When it display the results we look at how many results the gave and the time for searching, scope of information and the results ranking among the 3 search facilities
the most important i had learned is the different types of search facilities
it gave me more space to search for relevant information and taught us the use of keywords and boolean operators =)
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10:02 PM
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last 2 weeks i had learned to create wiki space and last week i edit the space with my introduction of the relevant resource. It is a good way to let teacher see our work in the wiki so that she know how many updates we did and how much contents we add each time. This is one of the communication between teacher and student so this is way to submit work on time anywhere. It will not be so troublesome to meet the teacher each time as she might not have so much time meeting all of the groups individually.
today's lab
teacher give comment on our wiki activity and i had listened clearly on what she mentioned and edit my wiki. The apa style is quite difficult if there isn't any author in the website.
i had visited talking cock website and i think that the use of colour for the website is alittle voilent using red and black and normally talking cock it means talking rubbish. I know that this website trying to bring laughter to people and it is a forum for friends to share jokes with one another.
It is good to have this website because it can allow people to share their opinions and point of view to people. They can debate with one another make their thinking or knowledge wider.
The navigations are quite simple and organized. As a Singaporean, i think that this is a place where people learn more things from what others had wrote and expressed their feelings about certain issues.
Overall, this website is alright because some people may want to know more things and what are the things happening in Sngapore and how do others think about it. They can know by reading the forum and post a reply also by joining the member.
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12:05 AM
12:05 AM
Friday, May 16, 2008
my dream holiday!!!
very clean.. =)
my dream holiday is to go Australia.
I do not have alot of reasons why but i just love the sea over there
it is very clean and blue
i love to eat nougat and it is also from Australia
i want to go to the disney too!!
if i know how to dive i would like to get a beautiful seashell or coral for myself
i enjoy the breeze and i love going to cold places
i love watching sunset =D
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12:42 AM
12:42 AM
Thursday, May 15, 2008
I had learned how to use different kinds of engines in uir lab.. and it is fun learning it because we can have a wider research by using the boolean operators.
Ms faridah had showed us how we can make use of the boolean operators and had a wide range of results and determine which engine is the better choice and what differences they have between the search engines.
Now, i will be showing some screen shots about the search engine and summarize it...
Yahoo search engine
search engine will find many possible results from the keywords and display out.
The results will display as long as there is the keyword in the sentence it will also display out.
There are millions of hits and the time it use is very little because it is auto generated.
The database will capture the word and display all possible information they had in the system and that is why there are millions of hits displayed less than 1 seconds.
Meta Crawler
Meta Crawler has information gathered from different search engine like Yahoo, Google, Ask, Altavista, windows live. It is good to have search results from many search engine but the information seems to be about the same information as the results is much more lesser than the Yahoo search engine.
Yahoo directory
Yahoo directory is manually done by professionals and it takes a longer time to search for the information. Some of the information may not found in the directory as we could not expect much information from the professionals. They could not possibly put all information in there.
It is good to show subjects by subjects so that it is more clear of our findings.
Yahoo Advanced Search
Advanced search allows the user to search easily by selecting what kind of search they want.
E.g. They can choose to type any of the word or all of the words to find the information.
There are different types of language for the user to select to meet their requirements and
it is more user friendly. User can choose to see the latest update information by selecting it.
it is more user friendly. User can choose to see the latest update information by selecting it.
After searching it, it will display the result page and the search textbox will automatic fill in the boolean operators for the user.
Overall, i think that Advanced Search engine is the best way to search relevant information. =D
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8:49 PM
8:49 PM
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
today's lab =]
ms faridah went round the class and checked our class's work
she checked about out blog and practical 4&5
she taught us and gave us a brief explanation about evaluation template for Internet Resources
after i had attended the lab, i knew how to go about writing my template
we also had to do a blog activity about "my dream holiday", we will have to show pictures and talk about it.
i will be posting my dream holiday pictures so please check it out later!! =D
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2:15 PM
2:15 PM
Saturday, May 10, 2008
hmmm... now i would like to share what i did in the friday's practical (week 3)
i had learned how to take out relevant keywords from my research topic
i had listed the keywords and variations in my practical worksheet, the variations i found make my research area wider.
i also learned that the use of the boolean makes my research more detailed and closer to my findings.
our teacher also explained and showed us the 3 types of search facilities:
- search engine
- meta search engine
- subject directory
E.g. 1 - 10 of about 622000000 with 0.23 sec.
meta search engine showed us the informations by telling us where they get the informations from. E.g. [Found on Google, Windows Live, Yahoo! Search, Ask.com]
The result they have are 1 - 20 of 74. It is more detailed then the search engine.
subject directory has shown how they get to the keywords that i had typed in. If i type in 'coffee' as the keyword, 'shopping' will be its subject and it direct us to coffee roasters and brands.
Examples:
- Shopping > Coffee Roasters and Brands
- Coffee
- Shopping > Coffee
- B2B > Coffee Equipment
- Australia > Shopping > Coffee
According to what teacher had said that this directory is manually done by the many professionals.
At the end of the lesson, i had learn to identify the different types of internet search facilities and the effectiveness of different internet search facilities. =)
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1:03 AM
1:03 AM
Thursday, May 8, 2008
hihi
now is the time to blog about my discussion topic in practical 2 i had learned how to find and differentiate the organizational and personal website i feel that it is important to learn how to differentiate it
organizational website: There are a lot of people working on the website and build up this organization. Therefore, organizational web site's content are more reliable than personal web site because they cannot afford to make up stories to the public.
Personal website: An individual talk about him/herself or their opinion towards a topic
2 organizational websites i had found for my discussion topic (Singapore's integrated resort):
1) The news about Integrated resorts will boost and fundamentally change Singapore's economy
www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/246112/1/.html
2) Traveler's reviews on Sentosa resort. This can proof that in the future, Singapore's economy will rise.
www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g294264-d302969-Reviews-The_Sentosa_Resort_Spa-Sentosa_Island.html
now it's the time for E-Shopping Spree!!!
What if i have $500? What will i buy?
i love this brand and the design is very unique yeah!! =D
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11:59 PM
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