Twitter

I have heard about twitter before but never had any interest about it. As i did not really need to use it. Since getting an android phone :P and joining Effective Internet Research. I have learn and enjoyed using its functions.
In the beginning i had my doubt as i don't really like to express myself and especially i do not want people to know whats in my mind and what i am doing now, but i realised that by expressing myself on twitter it kinds of make me feel better rather than i keep all the thoughts to myself.

Using Twitter in EIR is usefull as it allows me as a student to follow other EIR twitter students. This allows me to communicate with them and find out the topics that we might have for a common interest. Replying to their tweets will allow me understand their personal opinions on a given topic or interest.

EIR in class is essential as it allows the teacher to just post tweets on the latest topics. The students would just read the tweets and do more research . Any questions raised would just need to be tweeted to the teacher , there is no need to meet the teacher face to face. Which saves time.

Comparing this to Blogger. In blogs we tend to express ourselves more, this would lead to long post on a given topic. In twitter there is a limit to the number of words that can be sent. Therefore twitter is like an sms system but everybody who follows you can read it.

Twitter and Blogs may differ but both serve the same purpose. It a platform for us to express ourselves and share the common topic or interest to the masses.

My Dream Holiday

In Secondary School My Favourite Subject was History.Always been fascinated with Italy Culture and history especially during the renaissance period. My dream Holiday Destination Has to be Venice.

Venice is the known to be One of the beautiful places that must be visited. One thing that makes it unique is that it a floating City most parts of Venice is covered with water. Their public Transportation is usually water taxis or Gondola. They do have public transportation like buses or trains, but mostly transportation is by water so thats why most of the Community in Venice owns their own boat then cars.

I Visited City of Venice website to Find out more on Venice.
The Website is an official site available to citizens and visitors.

Based on The layout of the Site Most of the Information Is easily Accessible. I can just choose from the tabs above and get the information I want. For Example I can just choose the Tourism Tab and It will bring me to a page that shows the events, traditional events that are coming up this year.

What i need to do is just Click the the Dates And they will show the Events that will be occurring on this date
I like this Functionality as it allows me to view Events happening on certain dates rather than browsing through a long list of events.

There is also A Virtual Tour of Venice

This Allows me to View The City Without being Physically  being there.

The Map also allows me to Zoom in to get a More detailed view of the City and if I click on one of the Landmarks. It will bring me to the Virtual View

This Function is Fun as i can just walk anywhere i want and view the interesting places in Venice. I think this is the most important function for a tourist like me as i can use this to make my itinerary so that when i decide to visit Venice, it will be much Simpler.

I also like the Live Web cam  as it allows me to see whats happening in Venice now. I can Refresh the image every 8 seconds to view.
Here are Some Web cams of Venice

St. Mark's Square Webcam

 Rialto Bridge Webcam

A Tourism Website need to have a Nice design and layout to attract More users. The Venice Website meets the Criteria. Its layout is Clean the Tabs bring me to the right places. The proper information are categories into their respective pages.

Here is a Video On Venice

Second Life... To be Continued..
I went To Search for Venice in Second Life. The name of the region is called Venice Passion
I was Surprised that someone actually created a virtual world of  Venice in second life. Here are some Pictures of me interacting in Venice Passion Region.

 It looks Exactly Like Venice The region is Well Design.

Decided to Take the Hot Balloon for An aerial view of Venice.  The View from the hot air balloon was amazing.

After landing I use a Bicycle to travel around Venice.This allow me to travel faster and enter into areas that i did not see. Overall my experience in Venice Passion was interesting and interactive.

Topic 2 Practical 7 Blog Reflection on Citizen Journalism.

Sorry For not updating my blog this few weeks Readers, been busy with other school projects. I promise to update my blog weekly from now on ok  :]

Last Week EIR was on Citizen Journalism
I believe Citizen Journalism  is a Great Way for People to Share their opinions on certain news. It is always interesting to know about other people opinions as their views differ. Citizen Journalism also allow people to j share news from anywhere. This is great as news reporters may not be always first on the scene.,with the help of Citizen Journalism. news that might not appear on the newspaper or TV can be shared online. Students Who participates in Citizen Journalism will be able to interact with the community and will allow them to view the other articles that are posted by the community. The students can also share their own article online and be prepared to received feedback from the community.Students will then learn not to be biased and respect other people views on their article.With time Students will improve on their media literacy skills and be able to earn the community trust.

In class We were task to form a group and Evaluate Stomp. We evaluate Stomp Bases on Purpose,Coverage,Authority,Accuracy and Currency. I find this Activity more engaging as its a group effort. It allows me to interact with my classmates as well as discuss and make decision as a group. After that we Present our findings to the Class. As expected Different Groups have their own opinion, this activity has help me learn about other people views and perspective.

I  will share my evaluation on Stomp Accuracy and Currency  . Based on my experience using stomp. Most of their news are very current. Almost everyday there will be post on different happenings in Singapore. On their Accuracy, Stomp is known for its '"interesting news" anybody can post on the Website this makes me Question on their credibility. Lets face it anybody who signed up as a member on the site can post their own news. And with no links to support their claims how can i believe the news is real. Pictures can be Digitally altered with Software nowadays. So After reviewing my evaluation. I cant just trust any news online i need to make my own research to and ensure their credibility.

Creating My Own Stomp Based on My Topic Ethical Implication Of Cloning.
First Any news Posted on my Stomp  will need to have an option for the Citizen Journalist to add their references. This reference Would help them to Support their news article credibility. With references other user using my stomp can find out where the posters get their sources from. Encouraging my Community to do their own research before trusting the posters Article. Discussion Forum is a must as it allows my users to debate on the Current news on cloning. I would also include A brief History on cloning for new users to learn. With a Discussion Forum  I will need to choose some moderators to help me monitor the Forum and edit some comments.Lastly My Stomp would be Mobile Friendly as with the current technology more people are accessing the web on their mobile. This would enable my users to post on the fly....

EIR Practical 6 Activity 4: Rflections on Using Invisible Web Database

I have already learnt about the different such as meta search, and subject directory.  Now i am introduce to invisible web database. Since being in TP i did not know that the school has such databases. 
I decided to try out the different Search databases.
I tried out EbscoHost

I like their Search Interface it enables me to make accurate searches by using and, not, or functions to make my Search more refine.
I can also choose from different database to get better results.

Based on my search This is what i got.

I like How it indicates the relevancy of the topic to my Search query. This enables me to choose the most relevant topic from the list. The preview magnifying glass allows me to preview the page before clicking on the link. This saves me time from going to the page and finding out that the page is not to my liking. I can also get the results return in HTML format or PDF. This is essential for when i need to save the page in a particular format.


Based on my experience using the invisible web database. Yes the Invisible web database are effective than the other Search sources. In some ways Invisible web databases are similar to subject directories but invisible database has their different Web database for different Search Sources. Invisible database has Search engines for news articles like factiva, news link for local spore news,Global issues in context for world issues like business, economy etc.

If i need to Search for topics based on my diploma i know where to search. I will use TP invisible database. The database will help return me better search sources as compared to the other Search engines. I believe I can also trust the Sources in TP invisible web database as it is maintained by them. Though i will need time to utilize TP invisible database as  there are many functions available for me to use that i have not explored yet.


Recently Visited one of my Classmates Blog post
I visited Linda Blog The site feed is on the left.
I Find her blog very Clean so its an easy read.
Read her post on Google Or Google Scholar and find her opinions Differ than mine. 
This is interesting as it allows me to learn about different people opinion as my opinion may not be always right.