Practical 6

Activity 4 (Practical 6)

a. Do you think it is more effective to search the invisible web (databases)
than using search engines, meta-search or subject directories? Why?

Personally, to me it is much more convenient to search using the search engines or meta-search as compared to the invisible web (e.g EbscoHost). The reason for this is search engines, meta search, offers much more useful information and quite current one as compared to the invisible database that i uses such as EbscoHost.

However one of the invisible database that i use, which is Newslink, various  taken from the different types of Newspaper, is very effective as it did offer quite a number of articles that is closely related to my research topic as follow:

b.     Will you use the invisible web (databases) for research in your own respective Diplomas? Why?

I would keep my options open to all. I would definitely use the invisible web

for research in my own respective diplomas. The reason for this is because, I

have experience and been tasked to do quite a number of research for my

other subjects using only the invisible database to pick an article that is

related to my research topic. Furthermore, the articles/ journals in the

invisible database are no doubt, all reliable and is made convenient for

students as some of the invisible web, provides u the citation and other useful

tools to help us in our work.

c.      What have you learnt from your wiki experience during this practical?

I have learnt that wiki is a very good and convenient way for me to improve

my research / findings as I progresses from each tutorial/ practical. As I

had collected some useful information from this practical, I am confident to  

share it with the rest of the students at  wiki.

d.     Comment on at least one of your classmate’s blog post.

I would comment on one of my site feeds friends blog post, Lim Zixi, which is
http://eirzixi.blogspot.com/. Basically I am interested to comment on her SecondLife
HKPOLYU post, which is posted on the Thursday, November 18 2010. 

The reason I choose this post, because interestingly, we share some similar opinions and
thoughts. Subsequently, Zixi stated that she do observe mannerism and behaviours. Well, I
think that what she say is true, writing short- form, to the HK students is not really a good
thing as they did not understand and could cause misunderstanding. Basically that's what
happen to me, I am too used to chatting using short form with my friends and I did that
too with the HK student  and he repeatedly ask me to repeat what I say and at one point of
time, he says he don't understand my questions. Other than that, Zixi had started her
conversation with the HK student similar to me, which is the HK students approaching us
as we were quite lost when we got there. Subsequently, as for  the challenging experience, I
am lucky that my HK mate, understand English relatively well, as compared to Zixi, as that
is her biggest challenge. Whereas for me the biggest challenge is the destination places from

one place to another. So I guess, that's all I wanted to comment about my friend , Lim

Zixi blog post.

             

Practical 4&5

a. What benefits do you get when using different search facilities to search for resources related to your topic?

Basically i get quite alot of benefits when using different search facilities to search for resources related to my topic. Some of the benefits include the different kind of informations from different articles/journals that I would get from the different search facilities. This is mainly because the different search facilities offers different kind of information and journals/ articles from one another. Other than that, different search facilities also function defferently. Thus by using all the different search facilities I get to choose which search facilites best suits my preferences and is easy for me to search for articles that are closely related to my topic.

b. How do you feel about using site feeds in your blog?

To me using site feeds in my blog is a way tp get connected with my friends through the site feeds with their blogs. It is a good way as I need not type in the whole hyperlink if i wanted to read their blogs.Other that that, site feeds settings also offer numerous options for post and comment feeds on my blog.

c. What do you like best about collaborating on Wiki with other students who share similar research topic as you?

Personally, I felt that the best about collabrating on Wiki with other students is the sharing of information and also displaying the different ways/approach to doing my research topic. It is a good way to see how other students are doing a different thing as compared to mine about the same research topic. This show the students creativity and flexibility on doing the same research topic but with many different approach/ work displayed at Wiki.

Below are the example of work of other students doing the same topic:

 Beloew are the example of my work contribution to Wiki: