UIR: Practical Worksheet 3

I'm too lazy to do any editing, so here comes the copy wholesale and paste UIR worksheet 3.

Activity 1 - UIR in Summary (Lectures 1-3)

Discuss with your tutor and classmates what you have learnt from UIR Lectures 1-3.

Activity 2

1. Study the Internet resources that you have retrieved in Practical 2.

2. Identify the purpose of any FOUR resources. Explain your answers by listing the reasons in the table provided. Reasons provided can be related to the different characteristics of each type of resource.

Listed below are the purposes of resources : (Refer to Lecture 3 notes)

• Information
• Advocacy
• Business/marketing
• News
• Personal
• Entertainment

Below is the part I'm supposed to fill in.

Resource 1: Arstechnica

Purpose of resource : Information and News.


Resource 2: Learning Circuits

Purpose of resource : E-learning site for professionals.


Resource 3: SmallBizTrend

Purpose of resource : News site for SMEs and Small Businesses.


Resource 4: WebReference

Purpose of resource : References to the web from the web


Warmest Regards,
Mr Ridiculously Ridiculous

ERM, I think its time for Practical 4 & 5

Week 4 to 5, UIR assignment 1.

Lets start.

Topic: Discuss the developments of Internet social network services.
Why: Namely because I participate in many of the social networking websites.
What: 3 different search facilities.
Keyword: Friends Networking
Who: Google, Yahoo Directory and Meta Crawler.

Google:

• Massive Database.
• Plenty of results.
• Allows phrase searching to reduce the number of results.
• Many other advance capabilties such as operator usage etc.
• Has proprietary PageRank technology to rank pages.

Meta Crawler:

• Meta Search Engine.
• No own database.
• Searches other search facilities' databases.
• Consolidates results returned before presenting to user.
• As accurate as Google, sometimes return even better results.

Yahoo Directory:

• Subject Directory
• Complied by human.
• Suitable for familiar or a particular topic.
• Mostly accurate but does not return a variety of results like other two.

How:

• 1st; Google - Innovative features and PageRank system help to yields much more comprehensive results.
• 2nd; MetaCrawler - Alternative to Google due to its similarities and multiple sources.
• Last: Yahoo Directory - Just a search of results already categorized in a hierarchy.

Regards,
Mr Ridiculous

UIR: Practical Worksheet 2

Ladies & gentleman, welcome back to another edition of Using Internet Ridiculously!

First off, I would like to declare I'm late for UIR today and I'm very sorry about it.
I would like to apologize to Ms Faridah(sorry if i got your name wrong).

Secondly, I, as usual, would have to post my Practical Worksheet online, so here it goes...


Introduction to Internet Resources: Categories of Internet Resources 2

Objectives
By the end of the practical session, students should be able to:

• Identify the different types of websites
• Compare the different types of websites

Searching Activity

1. Identify ONE topic from your core subjects for your research. You should discuss your choice with your tutor (See Annex for Suggested Research Topics).

Topic : Developments and trends in the area of RSS/podcasting

2. Based on your research topic, search the Internet for 4 websites with a combination of different types eg personal, organization and subject-based.

3. Using the table below, fill in the details of the websites that you have retrieved.

• Type of Website : Technology news site
  Resource Name /URL: Arstechnica
  Resource Description : The art of technology
  
• Type of Website : E-learning site
  Resource Name /URL: Learning Circuits
  Resource Description : E-learning site for professionals
  
• Type of Website : SME news site
  Resource Name /URL: SmallBizTrends
  Resource Description : News site for SMEs and Small Businesses
  
• Type of Website : Reference site
  Resource Name /URL: WebReference
  Resource Description : References to the web from the web

Reflections on your searching activity

1. Which search facility/ies did you use?
My best friend Google and a little bit of yahoo!

2. Write down all the keywords you had used for searching the resources. Identify those keywords that yield relevant or better search results.
Keywords include RSS trends, RSS, Pocasting, Podcasting Trends. Those that yield better results would be RSS trends and Podcasting Trends.

3. What are the major differences amongst the three types of websites?
Each site focuses on different aspects, like for example, SmallBizTrends is mainly on news and articles for Small Businesses whereas Arstechnica is more about general Technology news and articles etc.

Regards,
Mr Ridiculously

UIR : Practical Worksheet 1

Hi all, welcome back to U.I.R. Its been a week since I last updated.

First up, I have to blog about Pratical Worksheet 1 which is about UIR.

Here it goes...:

Objectives
By the end of the practical session should be able to:
-Start to create a personal UIR Blog (Done!)
-Identify the categories of Internet resources (See below)
-Compare the different categories of Internet resources (See below)

Part B (Pair activity) Part A is what you are looking at now, my U.I.R blog. Yes, Part A is to make a blog = )

1. Discuss with your partner and pick a topic that relates to your interest eg Music, Movies, Games, Sports. You can also work on a research topic relating to the area related to your respective Diplomas. (Done!)

2. Once both of you have agreed on the topic, identify ONE aspect of the topic that you would like to know more about. For example, you may choose “Music” as the topic and you may decide to choose “Popular music” as an aspect. (Done!)

3. Search the Internet for one example of the resources listed on your chosen aspect:
- Newsgroups and discussion list
- Electronic journal and magazine
- Multi-media source
- WWW site

4. Using the table provided, describe the resources that you have retrieved.

I can't be bothered to draw an HTML table, so here are the 4 links.
Newsgroups and discussion list:
http://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/ (A forum where hardware enthusiasts gather.)

Electronic journals and magazine:
http://www.chip.com.my/ (A magazine dedicated to the latest happenings and hardware.)

Multi-media source:
http://www.youtube.com/ (The famous youtube.com has a plethora of videos.)

WWW site:
http://www.com/ (where the web begins.)

5. Compare your findings with your partner. How are they similar or different from your partner’s findings?

Similarities:
He used the same search engine as me and he also has the same best friend as me. Google FTW!­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

Differences:
We're working on different aspect. He probably lousier at using google.

Regards,
Mr Ridiculous

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