and i wonder where these dreams go, when the world gets in your way

January 20, 2008

Practical Prac 8

For practical 8, we start with a test and I did quite well this time round. After finishing the test, each of us get back out own assignment 1 and to my surprise I did well, my effort spend on it was not wasted. After settling down, we started on collating every member's resources. Our leader, Carmen told us to send our links of the resources use to her in order to do bibliography. However, towards the end of the lesson when teacher teach us how to do citation, she foresee some problems as it is different from what we normally do. As such, we will most probably be doing it together during our meeting on this coming week. Some of my group member’s resources did not seem to be of a particular kind such as news or website because there were no authors, no particular newspaper such as ST but it looks like an article. Hence we are very confused on how to write a proper bibliography. And because it is for UIR, it is computer or internet kind of subject and so we felt very worried about not scoring high marks for our project.

Lessons Learn
At the end of practical 8, I have learned that it wasn’t easy to do citation, however we manage to get it done. After doing it, I have learned how to write a proper citation and it will be useful to me for my next assignment citation.

zhihao 3:26 AM

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January 11, 2008

Practical Prac 7

For practical 7, each of us will have to access our UIR-Rawkz Wiki account and submit our individual comments. We would have to contribute towards our group's summary of the research findings.For this activity, i had to log on to my account. The first step i did was to look at how other groups have written and then those from my group. After which I have got some rough idea on how to go about doing it. I have to refer to my assignment 2 and retrieve my resource links, upon referring I retrieve some information and I note it down. I added some discussion of the information I have found and give the current research they are handling. After I finish doing it, i posted it.

Lessons Learn
Through the viewing of so many other groups posting, I gained some new knowledge and I find that it is a good way for us to increase our knowledge of what is happening in the research area and other areas such as alcoholism in the youth right now and research area in flu, aids and many more.

zhihao 10:12 PM

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January 5, 2008

Practical Prac 6B

For practical 6B, it is E-learning week, we have to complete practical 6B on our own and have to participate in OLE discussion board with the tutorial question being post in it. Upon posting, I went to do a little bit of research before answering the questions and posting it. The questions were: Briefly explain how Internet has enriched your academic life. Illustrate your answer using at least ONE Internet resource you had learnt in UIR. How it has enriched my academic life is base on self experience, but for the internet resource part. I have to refer back and do some research. For the practical, it’s about the same as practical 6A. However, for my 2nd resource, it took me shorter time to complete it as I had already experience how it should be done and how to search according to the evaluation criteria.

Lessons Learn
Through the online discussion board questions, it made me realise how important internet is to me, without internet. I wouldn’t be sitting here writing this and all the games will be gone.For evaluation of websites, I have learned how to evaluate a website and decide whether it is a good website. It would help me in deciding which website to go when I want to carry out my search in the future.

zhihao 6:58 PM

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