Friday, November 9, 2007

UIR Episode 2b - Making use of what I learnt...

With what I learnt from this week's lab and what I understood from my own reading up, I completed the lab task. However, I still had some confusion between the difference between subject based and organizational. Despite so, I did not give up and managed to find one website representing what I learnt as subject based and two website representing what I learnt as organizational. Well, hopefully I did not mix them up.

Firstly, the easiest to identify is Personal website. I found this personal resource (URL) http://www.courier-journal.com/blogs/pointtaken/2007/11/families-are-first-line-of-defense.html. It is maintained by an individual. It discussed about the consequences of drug abuse and the increased in youth drug abuse cases. It also mentioned about how much help family members can bring to their kids to prevent such cases from happening.

Secondly, a resource that I think is Organizational type. http://www.nationalyouth.com/substanceabuse.html. It is maintained by National Youth Network. It states information about how national youth network view youth drug abuse. It also serves as a form of resource to deliver message and information about drug abuse. For example the symptoms, how it is treated and how drug abuse youth behave. It provides link to other related parties in their website. The links lead viewers to the right source for more information on specific issues such as parental tips.

Thirdly, another resource that I think belongs to an Organizational type. http://www.unodc.org/youthnet/youthnet_youth_drugs.html. It is maintained by UNODC. It acts as a source to deliver information about drugs to the public. Not only does it provide a lot of information on drugs, it also provides a link section whereby the links of related organizations, professional groups and companies to the viewers.

Lastly, this website, http://www.drugfree.org.sg/ForTheYouths/index.asp, I thought was some organizational one. But then after some exploration with my read ups, I decided that it is Subject based. It is maintained by National Council. It is a source for National Council to create awareness of drug abuse to the public. Information such as causes of personal testimony, drug abuse, how to say no to drugs and source of help, is highlighted in this website. It do not provide purely information by the organization, it also provide information of personal drug experiences in their personal testimony section.

This is what I did. Now, I am feeling a sense of satisfaction.
To be continued...

Posted by iMcelestinE at 1:10 PM