My reflection

I have attended EIR class for almost four months and it really has been a learning experience for me as I have learnt how to do my research properly and effortlessly. Throughout the whole of EIR cds, the most important lesson that I have attended is the lesson on evaluating on the search engines. I have been taught on how to evaluate the website using the skill access the coverage as I thought that it is really a very important skill that we have to use in order to minimise out time wastage on searching relevant information that we need, especially when it comes to the research topic that I have been doing all along since the start of the CDS. This subject is like a wave where there are ups and downs during the lesson. Being a lazy student, which I admit, I realised that I have been rushing through my portfolio as I didn't pay attention to the lesson. But I managed to finish my portfolio in the end. Up till now I realised that effective internet research is a very important skill whereby we need to use it in our daily lives over at the working world in future. So I really thank my tutor for teaching me so many things to my benefits.

When I attended the lesson on website evaluation, my tutor was teaching us how to evaluate by using these criterias:

1. Identify the purpose of a source
2. Access the coverage
3. Access the authority and reputation
4. Access the currency and maintainance of source
5. Consider the accessibility
6. Evaluate the presentation and arrangement of information
7. Access the navigation capabilities
8. Make comparison with other sources
9. Access the overall quality of the source

So I use access the coverage as the criteria regarding my research topic and apparently it works for me very well as the information that I need for my research topic is relevant for me to research on.

My dream holiday

My dream holiday is Maldives.

Maldives is the place for me to go on a holiday as I've never been there before. I heard from people saying that Maldives is one place that we should never miss out for holidays as Maldives is a very good place for relaxation whereby we can go for scuba diving or snorkelling. The colour of the ocean is really very beautiful as it comprises of light and dark blue, lighting up the whole island up in the middle of the ocean. When people go for scuba diving or snorkelling, there are a lot of colourful coral reefs and sand bars, and wonderful hotel facilities for women to go for spas and jacuzzis.

I used wikipedia as my source of evaluation where it introduces and covers the information of Maldives, the origin of Maldives, how many islands surrounding the ocean that creates Maldives etc. Plus, I used access the coverage as my evaluation criteria as it gives me a lot of relevant informations regarding my dream holiday destination. I chose Maldives as my dream holiday destination as I can feel that Maldives give me a very relaxed feeling when I am living in such a hectic world and environment. I really need the relaxation and Maldives is the only place for me to go and relax. I loved the ocean and the beach very much. This kind of relaxing feeling is the only feeling that none of the countries can ever give me because Maldives consists of nature mostly.

What criteria did i use to evaluate stomp. sg

I used access the coverage, access maintainance and currency of source, make comparison with other sources, evaluation of the presentation and arrangement of the sources to evaluate the website www.stomp.sg. When i used access the coverage, I realised that stomp.sg actually covers a lot of updated news for people to go and visit or even provide latest news for the locals to read from in order to know what is happening around us in our everyday lives. During lessons, we were taught on how to evaluate a website whether it is useful in the access of coverage, therefore I think that this criteria really helps us in evaluating the website in order for us to search for the news that we wanted effortlessly.

I did not comment on this activity over at wiki as i did not have the time to go and do so due to my heavy workload that the school has given me. But I feel that stomp.sg is a good website for people to go and take a look as it really covers a lot of news that we did not hear over the television. Plus, there are also tabloid news for people to read from whenever they are bored, examples would be celebrity news from all over the world.

Thursday

I am totally impressed by the google search engines. They provide really specific and detailed functions for the users to search for the information that they wanted specifically. I didn't manage to go intot the discussion forum where it says it's prohibited. But from what I have researched and found, I find that through the results that Google has given and provided me, The informations that I wanted is very precise and it really helps me in my research. So I hope thyat I will be able to go into thye discussion forum and fine out more information and regarding my research topic. I think we must do citation and bibliography as we need to provide evidence in order to support Google search engines where it actually helps in finding precise informations. From what I had done for last week, I realised that citation and bibliography is important as we can further research on it.

Thursday

Hey people, This is hee an here... This is not my real blog... If you want to see my blog, link me at www.leisuretimebeingforgotten.blogspot.com

Have a good day my friends!!!

I went to visit this shoppping website and i found a lot of nice clothings that I really like: http://www.bizmiles.com/?gclid=CIyHurL64Z0CFQEupAodpHY8Og

White top with:

- Dark blue jeans

- Ladies' leather boots

- Brown handbag

Grey top with:

- light blue jeans

- pearl necklace

The purpose that I have visited this shopping website is to hunt for nice and new clothes to wear during school days and outings with my friends. I have learnt that not to spend my money so wastefully and must budget myself to buy necessary things, especially for school.

Boring Day In School

Today is the second day that i am having this blog right now. Woke up at 7 30am as I have school at 9am. Boring right? Yeah I thought so. Who would want their school to start at such an early time, especially on the very last day of school week!!! I mean what the?? My school hours are like at least 8 to 10 hours everyday and I am supposed to wake up so early just for the lectures?? I think I will "die of exhaustion" due to the heavy workload that the school gave for this semester. Well, enough of my complaints, let's move on to " How's My Day In School?".

Today we had Maths and Basic Microbiology lecture(BMic lec). I was half asleep during the whole if BMic lec as the teacher is practically rushing through everything which we didn't catch it at all in between. Then school ended at 12 noon, went home straight and slept for 2 1/2 hours as I was damn tired, close to exhaustion if I were to put it. But in all, my day is kind of boring enough to find lots of activities to kill time. Well, that's all for today. Shall blog again sometime. Cheerios!!