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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