Reflections on lesson 6:)

Hey there:) It's coming to an end of this term and this is our last tutorial lesson for this year:) After this few lessons of EIR, i did learnt a lot of useful things that I have never seen through and this definitely gain my knowledge and I explore a lot from here. Apparently, for this lesson I will be reflecting on the effectiveness on invisible web vs others like search engines and meta search:).In my own opinion,I think that Invisible web is quite effective compared to search engines and meta search as it shows data-bases that are relevant to our topic and text pages, files or other high-quality World Wide Web that general-purpose search engines cannot (due to technical limitations), or will not (due to deliberate choice) add to their indices of Web pages .However, I'll still use search engines and ,meta search as each search facilities gave us different answers and topics. For example, when i'm searching for familiar topic ,I still use search engines like GOOGLE, this is always the first priority as we don't have to log in to any account ad just search for the results we want. As for unfamiliar topic, use a subject directory as it allows you to browse through relevant links and lastly, for specialized information, use invisible web (databases like EbscoHost) or intelligent agents.Therefore, different search facilities serves different purposes.



 I will use the invisible web (databases) for research in my own respective Diplomas as it helps me to search results when I couldn’t find it in search engines or meta search.



From this wiki experience, I have learnt from other people's ideas and viewpoint towards the various topic which I have not thought of before and from there I realised different kind of stories and gains more information from there and this wiki experience is useful to us as we are able to share with everyone and therefore people will know what's new that they don't know too. :)



I have read one of my classmate's blog post......
For example, Jeremy's ....http://eir-jeremy.blogspot.com/
As for his Sunday, November 21, 2010's SECONDLIFE POST:)
I found it similar when he said that : " What I like about Secondlife is that one can fly around and also teleport around.With these two features,I can move and travel around easily.Flying enables me to explore the map easier,while teleportation allows me to travel around the Secondlife world without spending time travelling.Both features which are unavailable in real life."



That's what i love about Secondlife that I could fly around and teleport in there:) That's so awesome:)

Reflections on lesson 4

Hi people, for today I have learnt two types of search facilities and they are

Meta Search Engine and Subject Directory. For meta search engine I have chosen from the lecture notes : http://www.ixquick.com and as for Subject Directory, I have chosen http://go.com/. With these two kinds of facilities,I have tried to use it and search for resources that are related to my topic and from there I have found new stuff that not google and yahoo could found . In comparison, I think that Meta search is more effective than subject directory as  Meta-search engines use software to find the best Web sites to match your search terms and in research wise, it serves a better purpose than using subject directory. They are similar as they are able to allow us to choose category like pictures,web and etc and the difference is the findings that we have found.It is more relevant.

For the site feeding part, i think it's helpful as I can just give a click and I can enter to my friend's blog to see their recent updates and post which is efficient for me :)

The best part about collaborating on Wiki with other students who share similar research topic as me is that I'm able to exchange references with them as not all people with same topic gets the same resources and it's relatively new and interesting for me that I'm able to learn new knowlegde from there too and everyone gets to share the resources that they have found.

Reflection on Virtual Shopping Spree on Second Life (E-learning Activity)

Before I start, I want to let everyone know thatTemasek Polytechnic is in second life too OMG! A user there that I know teleport me there:) How cool is it:)

Hi hi people, I have learnt a lot of things from second life and it is relatively interesting compared to normal online shopping as there are people or the owner there who can guide me along to buy things and give me recommendations:) How great it is right ! Here i go

The virtual shopping sites/island on Second Life i habe teleported to is  Port Seraphine:)
Over there, it provides female top designer clothes and lingerine and to me the shopping environment looks so grand and unique and I felt so happy while shopping there as there are a lot of varieties and it's so awesome compared to real life shopping in online.The service there are wondeerful as the people/saler is so friendly and she gave me free tag in the clothes and one of it I got is the elegant dress.there are freebies too which I don't even have to spend any amount and get what I want:) The accessibility to the products and services offered is efficient and effective .However in the start I have hard time moving front and back and the place I want to go but with the help system there,I'm able to learn and move it effectively though I'm still not as good as the people there but at least I'm able to control quite well. I met some friends there and make friends too including the graphic designer named Designer Enchanted. She is super friendly and ask me what would I get as there is a translator. I make friends like Marie Opaline, Roxanne Falmer and DjMonika Lowey:)Dennis Scorpio have been my great friend there and I asked alot of questions form him hahahah! They are friendly and sociable!!!And lastly,Charles Congrejo and he even help me to teleport when I dont know how and we even make friends in facebook:)
The following are the screenshots I took in the second life:

Making friends and chat:)

“What do you like best about this virtual experience which you cannot get in real life?”

     

      In secondlife,I'm able to get what I want and personalize my own house and clothes that all these I can't get in real life and it's like a dreamland to me :) I really enjoy myself there as I can use the motions like fly, walk and run and it's so cool as I'm able to chat with anyone over there and do what I want like I'm able to go anywhere and explore around!:) How great it is right and most importantly, the user there are friendly and sociable :) It's so colourful and it did beautify up my life :) Lastly the most awesome part is that I can teleport to any place I want :)

     "Experience gained in E-learning “Apparently, from this E-learning I learnt to work on things independently. For example, at the start I'm quite lost and don't know where am I and how to I go to the shops in the Second life and very blur but however, after like half an hour I learn how to go to other places like teleporting and from the aid of the help from the people there. The place there is super cool with music, events and places. I chat and get help from people there and they introduced me a lot of things like what are the free items to get and that's so cool and I gained experienced like shopping there!

      In conclusion,the people there are super helpful and some are from other countries:)And I spent 2 hours there exploring:)

Reflections for lesson 3

Hey people, today's lesson was comparing between (http://scholar.google.com) and (www.google.com) . Apparently,I feel that by using (www.google.com) works better for me and more useful. More resources are found and it's mostly related in additonal I'm able to search

results by the country, location and change it and able to get research from the pages from singapore with just a click

compared to (http://scholar.google.com)  it's from the whole country and not relevant to the question that I typed.Therefore, in comparison I'm impressed by google functions as it's really helpful to us when we are searching for results.

Participation in discussion forum

I have participated in the discussion forum to further communicate with the teenagers there and share and ask for their viewpoint and at the start i felt weird because it's my first time posting something there and waiting for their reply really awaiting for their reply anxiously.Following is a screenshot showing the discussion for the question that I have given: Discussion on the leisure trends among youths in Singapore....

 

Reasons we do citation and bibliography

Basically, we do citation because we want to acknowledge the source of the information by the real author and by this is like preventing people from copying and plagiarism. We must be conscious about our work and the people did this from their own opinon and hard work so I think it's important to respect them and their work so I strongly agree that citation is very important and useful.

Bibliography represents the research we have done in preparation for writing, and it offers our audience suggestions for further reading on our topic and bibliography is important as we can search and back track the things that we want in the future for easier references for efficiency and effectiveness.

Facebook Group Discussion ForumFor the facebook discussion forum that we have just done I think it's quite useful as we are actually chatting with our own classmates and from there we can hear from different kinds of viewpoints from different people though. Expressing myself behind the computer isn't a worry to me as I love to do so and I'm able to express myself freely.
This online discussion experience has it's pros and cons, compared  with traditional face-to-face in-class discussions . For the pros, we can expressed ourselves freely and not get frightened or stumbled when we say something rather than with traditional face-to-face in-class discussions. However, we won't know what are the feelings inthe text that are typed as the reader can't possibly read our mind on how are we feeling by reading and always this kind of discussion between the computer may sometimes creates fights and unhappiness because maybe the person is saying in a normal way but the reader may mistaken it and creates tension.
In conclusion,I find that this online forum is relatively useful compared to face to face as most importantly, we are able to type what we feels.

With these lesson three, I find myself becoming more interactive in using internet and socialize with people and also there's a lot of different functions and features to be learnt in google and I looked forward to the next lesson:)

My reflections for lesson 2

Hi there, for second lesson I have learnt to choose my topic and my topic is "Discussion on the leisure trends among youths in Singapore" . I choose this topic as it's related to me, as a teenager too and it's much more interesting for me to do this. It's great that I have found a lot of different websites of different idea like blogs,forum and different websites. Blog are better than forum as people will write in full details with pictures to show rather than forum those are their own opinions. We can also comment in the blog too under their last post. This will be interesting too.

Next ,we have learnt to go online shopping in various websites and I really enjoyed it while shopping as I just need to sit down and choose what I want .

Overall,I enjoy my time spending in effective research class:)

E-Shopping Spree:) SHOPPINGTIME!

SHOPPING TIME:)

I used to shop and buy things through online is because usually I'll get what I want there and special things that are imported from overseas and in additional it's much more cheaper than I got from shopping malls and other shops. Recently, I have spent money and purchased contact lens, clothes and heels...

Firstly,I have bought 3 pairs of contact lens from http://pamperdesire.blogspot.com/...

total price of: $85.50 and there's a 5% dicount.

NEXT SHOPPING SITES WILL BE http://tintinbee.livejournal.com/

This is a taiwan sprees that I have brought from and I have bought jacket with a hood

                                                           280 元 conversion :$15

Lastly from Ebay,http://www.ebay.com.sg/

Louis Vuitton WALLET Red Epi CHANGE Coin Purse LV BOITE

$296.07

$102.97

In total I have spent a total of $499.47 .
The purpose of the shopping website I had visited is to get the stuff that I need but I don't have time to go out to shop for it so instead it's efficient if I got it online as i just have to look through with the internet websites I have and buy it.

I have learnt that using internet resources is so much useful to get things online efficiency:)

Discussion on the leisure trends among youths in Singapore

Basically,I have chose discussion on the leisure trends among youths in Singapore. Apparently, teenagers will either watch movie, clubbing or shopping during their leisure time. The purpose of me choosing this topic is because I'm a teenager and I will know more about what currently youths are addicted to and at the same time ,I may able to learn more new activities that other teenagers that have done so in additional I get to learn about it since Sinagpore aren't big and we are actually going to the same place .

In 2004, a youth consultation exercise was conducted where over 2,200 voices were heard. In answer, the Ministry of Community, Youth & Sports (MCYS) set aside a sprawling 1.2ha creative space in the heart of town to engage and enable young people to explore their social interests and creative passions. From this also emerged 6 conceptual spaces – Street Market, Grid, Warehouse, Playground, Studio and Cache, which would come together in a brilliant fusion of art, music and culture.
*SCAPE Co. Ltd, a non-profit organization, was established to make the *SCAPE dream a reality for young people. *SCAPE currently incubates at the *SCAPE Youth Centre, *SCAPE Youth Park and *SCAPE Skate Park, where more than 160,000 youth have already been engaged through music, art, dance, theatre, extreme sports, multi-media and social entrepreneurship.The place whereby they showcase their talents. It's opened now and everyone is spending their time wisely there:)
 I have found out through different internet resources and they are catogrize as below and I would like to share with everyone here.

Catogory: Organization Website
Resource name:  Education.com
URL: http://www.education.com/reference/article/Ref_Teens_Free_Time/

It shows how teenagers spend during their free time

                                                                 
Catogory: Organization Website
Resource name:  Science daily
URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070220003757.htm

This website showing what teenagers do during their leisure time.

Catogory: Blog
Resource name:  comeniusproject-elay
URL: http://comeniusproject-elay.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-young-people-do-nowadays-on-their.html

This website shows what teenagers do during their leisure time and how they spend it.
Catogory: Journal
Resource name:  Recreation and the Use of Free Time - Teenagers, Leisure Time, And VolunteerismURL: http://www.libraryindex.com/pages/1699/Recreation-Use-Free-Time-TEENAGERS-LEISURE-TIME-VOLUNTEERISM.html
 In this library index, it shows factual details on how teenagers did during their leisure time based on surveys done and information the staff excess from and it shows information to the general audience.

Catogory: Journal
Resource name:  How Youth Use Their Leisure Time
URL: http://www.essaydepot.com/documents/how-youth-use-their-leisure-time/1
In this essaydepot, it based from teenagers personal experience and it's like the true story of it.


Catogory: Discussion forum
Resource name:  Youth Space @ Orchard
URL: http://www.youth.sg/forum/archive/index.php/t-241.html

The purpose of forum shows a public meeting or assembly for open discussion for everything that everyone can ask about and answer too so I think forum can be one of the great place for people to dicuss things and socalize.This forum is where teenagers express experience of their lifestyle and their thoughts. This website also access sharing base on confidential issue that arrise by the participant.

Yhello wello yellow:)

Hi people,I'm Teo Li Rong from Business Process and System Enginnering and I'm currently studying in Year 2.2 and enjoying my wonderful teenage life with awesome friends and families I have.

Firstly, let me share with you about myself. Apparently, I'm taking a part-time job in East Coast Park McCafe and I totally love my job as I get to interact with my customers, socialize and hanging out with my colleagues and we even share almost everything in our life. I enjoyed my work because I love to make coffees and it aren't easy as you think because it requires skills and experience to brew out a good coffee and it's actually fun because after you have mastered the basic way of brewing a quality coffee you can actually learn how to make latte art, it takes up a lot of time and patience and I do want to share with you guys pictures of latte art I have done:)

PICTURE OF ROSETTA:)

As a teenager, I do spend a lot of time hanging out,singing and shopping and no doubt, I love to take pictures with my friends because it do held memories, sweet memories. I will always scheduled myself well like studying ,workingand shopping. So currently during school hours,I'll only work on weekends morning shift and afterwhich,SHOPPING!!! Well, during weekdays I always spend my time finsihing my projects and homework as I'm always classified by my fellow classmates " gan giong girl" . I did this because I don't want to waste my weekends doing schoolwork as weekends is always for enjoying so many of my friends understands me pretty well and we always keep our work up-to-date:)

Let's share about my favourite singer, drama ,hobby and some skills that I'm passionate about:)

Let's move on to my favourite singer ,there she gos: Taylor Swift.

 Her songs really filled my mind and heart up whenever I'm alone in bus or something and the songs she sang means alot of things and it's true. My favourite tv drama is Vampire diaries, oh well for me I do love those romantic and scary kind and this movie really caught me spending my time watching whenever I'm free and not all love to watch romantic kind but you see, everyone has their own interest.Earlier on I have mention that I do love to sing , yes and that's my hobby too. Singer do spells our feeling out and it's pretty enjoyable if we sing with our friends and that really makes my day well. Skills that I'm currently passionate about is to make coffee arts and you can go to some youtube website to check it out too:) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjMNpZwGr7Q&feature=related

As a girl,no doubt I love to shop and shop for clothes and etc and this will always be done on every weekends with my colleagues and great friends. Orchard Road will always be the place and I'll always spend the full day there and follow on with other activities. This will be a short introductory of me and it will be continue on soon:) See ya:)