Wednesday, January 12, 2011,
My Dream Holiday!
My Dream Holiday!
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
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| Credits: Google Image |
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| Credits: Google Image |
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| 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.
I've gotten all this information from Hawaii's Official Tourism Site www.gohawaii.com/. I've used 'purpose', 'coverage' and 'authority' as the evaluation criteria evaluate the website.
First off, the 'purpose' of the website was very clear as it is there to promote Hawaii as it was clearly stated on the website. "Hawaii's Official Tourism Site -- Travel Info for Your Hawaii Vacation" The reason I chose 'purpose' was because it tells us straight away whether this website is what you are looking for immediately.
Next, the 'coverage' of the website is very comprehensive because it gives a user a wide range of useful links and tools and one good example would be the tabs they have covers all the six beautiful islands of Hawaii. The reason I chose 'coverage' was because it is important to have a website that covers almost everything and provide useful links for you to pursue a further search.
Lastly, the 'authority' of the website is shown as it is stated in the Corporate Information that they are working closely with the Hawaii Tourism Authority which gives the website the authority to publish and help tourist in their holiday trip plans. The reason I chose 'authority' was because it is important to know if the website is authorized to published the guidebook and such to the public as well as to check on its reliability of the website.
And here are the pictures taken from Second Life's Hawaii!
The Hawaii in Second Life isn't as beautiful than the picture of the real Hawaii that I've come across. Maybe soon Hawaii Tourism Board might see the potential of developing a replica of 'Hawaii' in Second Life to promote tourism! :D
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011,
Seventh Lesson
Seventh Lesson
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
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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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