When working in a group, it helps me to gain more knowledge by learning from one another. We share our ideas and opinions and questions it. I also learnt that co-operation within members is the most important factor because all of us must contribute our ideas in order to accomplish a successful group work/assignment. 


As an individual contributor, I learnt to be responsible as the researches are equally distributed among one another in the group therefore we must contribute and submit our share of work promptly by the proposed dateline. Everything went smooth and we have done our group work and I felt that we did a good job. :D


The most challenging experience I had faced during this Group Wiki was that it was hard to delegate the work to different parts as I was afraid I was not being fair. But we managed to split the work evenly and got things done. In addition, we were afraid we were overdoing our parts. And was later convinced by our teacher that it was better overdone than not.

The advice I would give to the next batch wiki groups is simply to enjoy their group work and split the work equally among the members! I think that group work helps to interact with friends and also learn new things from each other. Most importantly, enjoy working together with the group members.


I would use Wiki to research for my Diploma because Wiki allows other people to share their experience and also their point of view towards certain suggestions. Thus, it would be useful for my future assignments and projects in my diploma.
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Hello! Today we are on the topic of TWITTER! Does everyone has a twitter account? Hahaha. I do for sure!

For those who don't know twitter, twitter is a website that allows users to post a short message on their profile page and share among their followers. It is kind of update of your daily life and happenings. The users could also update their twitter via mobile phone. This bring conveniences and it brings social networking for people closer.

Having a twitter account has helped me in EIR in several ways and is different with blogging. Firstly, it allows me to interact with one another by posing intriguing topics and wait for my friend's opinions and answers. Twitter can actually serve as a live forum page, except that only your followers can respond to it. This has helped me on my EIR research topic, where I have gained responses from my friends on the topic.

Secondly, twitter enables us to grasps more attention than blogging. The reason being is that as compared to blogging, an entry post would usually be very wordy and it easily loses the viewers attraction to continue reading. Whereas twitter only restricts a 140 characters a twit and hence prompting me to refine my thoughts to fit the limit, attracting viewers and response.

Lastly, it would be the accessibility that twitter has a greater advantage to blogging. Twitter can be access by mobile phone as mentioned earlier while to access a blog it requires web-space with FTP access.With the advanced of technology, everyone can easily have access to twitter and is able to get updates.

However, I would prefer blogs to twitter as it allows me to express myself better and feature videos, audios and pictures enhancing my post much more interesting than twitter. Moreover, blogs can give us more information and perspective of certain topics that could be useful for my research topics. Occasionally, twitter can get spams by your friends and hence making it a flaw to look out for updates.

Twitter can help me with my research purposes by following users such as @cnalatest and @stcom, it allows me to keep track with news with my busy lifestyles and if any news that is related to my research topic I would spot it immediately or maybe came across it before, I could always traced it back. One way is to follow users that is of relevance to your research topic, my case would be @FansofChangi, it allows me to get the latest updates of Changi Airport and it has helped me in one of my project.

As mentioned before in my other earlier entries, blogs serves as a good platform to provide information and opinions of different individuals. However, these sites are sometimes bias but helpful to get different opinions for your research topic. There are also some blogs which are written by professional, thus there will be table graph and reference evidence that provides me with more useful ideas and information.
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Hey all! What's up! Hahaha. Today's blog post is on "My Dream Holiday".


My dream holiday location would be Hawaii. The reason for my choice is that there isn't another place in the world which is as exotic and as beautiful as the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaiian islands have the world's most active volcano. And the world's tallest sea mountain is also found in Hawaii. I would like to see these wonders of nature. Other than the natural beauty a lot of activities are also a major attraction for me. I would love to see, or may be even learn the hula. Hahaha. Below are pictures of Hawaii beautiful sceneries

Credits: Google Image

Credits: Google Image

Credits: Google Images

I do not think one can find a place as beautiful, as refreshing and as exotic as the six beautiful Hawaiian Islands namely,: Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lanai, Maui, and Hawaii's Big island.





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HI ALL! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011! This is my first post for 2011! :D Today we learnt about Citizen Journalism!


Citizen Journalism is an article or journal usually written by the citizen or people based in their own country and it allows them to post it on the website together with photos and videos dealing with their own areas of studies, news and even their stories. In addition, it allows people to voice out their opinions and debate to share their views of the respective post.


The criteria that I've used to evaluate Stomp.com.sg is 'purpose' and 'accuracy'. Reasons for choosing 'purpose' as one of the criteria is because it is significant to know the aims, objectives or limitations, scope and intended audience of the site. This will help us better understand the website as well as to identify who are the people posting these information so that we can evaluate the websites on its reliability. And since Stomp is a website for the public which anyone from all walks of life in Singapore can post it thus it may or not be reliable.


The next criteria I've chosen is 'accuracy' as it assess the factual accuracy, research basis or cited references, and whether the contents are with political, ideological, or biasness. This helps us to see whether the post is of a certain credibility or not. Stomp is under the Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. Co. and its working closely with The Straits Times thus the contents submitted would probably be vet by their editor and edited if necessary.


To sum up, I've learnt how to evaluate the quality of different Internet information resources by the 10 areas of evaluation criteria.


Just to share a post that I found amusing when I came across while visiting Stomp. :D

Credits: Stomp

If i were to create my own version of “Stomp” in relation my topic "Discussion on leisure trends among youths". I would change the layout of the website and categorize the different age group that youths falls under instead. In addition, this website will only be dedicated to youths of age between 12 to 21 to access. To be a member users have to sign up and input their IC no. to verify their age and hence able to post their favourite leisure past times. It will also be vet through by editors and edit if appropriate. In addition there would be a moderator to moderate comments to control cyber abuse of words in the website. There will also be a poll where the current most favourite leisure trend activities will be highlighted at the home page of the website. I believe with this new difference it will provide the youths with authentic learning and help them engage with communities of users safely (cyber bully).


I've commented on Jing Yi's Blog!



 

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Hello there! Today's lesson was on invisible web (databases)! And I will be reflecting on the effectiveness on invisible web vs search engines, meta-search or subject directories.

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I'm back again! It time to update my blog once again!


Site Feed

Do you noticed something different from my blog? Look at the right! I've added site feeds in my blog! They are my two EIR friends, Jun Siang and Jingyi! :D
As all of you might have known, I'm blogging for the first time and naturally I have difficulties with blogging related stuffs. I'm a newbie, but I'm learning fast! Well but of course with a help from my dear friend, Jingyi! Hahaha. She made it look so simple when she taught me!


I feel that by having input site feed in my blog it provides me convenience as I can update myself of my friends blog easily. It also gives readers of my blog a gateway to websites or blogs that I follow.


Wiki Collaborative Work


I feel that Wiki is a place where people sought for knowledge as well as to share their knowledge or findings. This helps me to understand and learn new things about the topic better and am able to exchange references as everyone will bound to have different resources. The best part of Wiki is to be able to input our findings and share with everyone making the topic more refined and constantly changing. The wiki hence will benefit everyone who are researching on the topic. I find it very interesting reading the wiki as it was different from my perspective. Overall, I find Wiki collaborative work very enriching.
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