Friday, January 18, 2008

UIR Episode 8 - Last Post, I Thought...

Class test 2 was not very well done. I am quite unprepared for the test too due to the heavy school workload this week.

I have uploaded my research result on the impact on physical appearance and grooming and its bibliography, to Wiki. Bibliography was quite easily done as it was taught before in one of the semester in communication skills lesson and it is always a practice in other project submissions.

My group is yet able to compile as some of my group member are not completely done yet, so now I will have to focus on my individual component as they are half done only. Due to my last minute changing in resource usage, I will have to redo one of my evaluations which should take me another half a day to complete. My blog is updated weekly but now have to transfer the post into Microsoft Word as it will not be very visible with print screens.

Hopefully I can get everything completed as soon as possible. And guess this will be my last posting as Episode 9 would not come in time for Assignment 2 submission.

Marking an end to Episode 8

Posted by iMcelestinE at 7:52 PM

Friday, January 11, 2008

UIR Episode 7 - E-learning week again!

I do research on the impacts of youth drug abuse. With the combination of information from two resources, I summarized the impacts and symptoms of drug abuse into a few paragraphs and posted them on Wiki.

I learnt the different types of impacts that I had never expected. I understood how much harm drug can bring about. Drug can bring about a total change in a person personality, behavior, character, interest, appearance, grooming and most importantly, health. Speaking from a youth point of view, I think of course health impact is the most critical one and following next is physical appearance. Hence, I will be doing research on the impact of physical appearance and grooming for my group report.

Marking an end to Episode 7

Posted by iMcelestinE at 9:52 PM

Friday, January 4, 2008

UIR Episode 6b - E-learning week

Wow… Although this week’s practical assignment is almost similar to last week’s one, but I find it even more tedious. A lot of information to be included as compared to last week’s one. Guess, it is due to the difference in websites used. Last week I used a website with information abstracted from a book but this week’s is an organization website. Hence, more things are needed to analyze.

First entry on a discussion forum and it’s a great experience. I had always thought that discussion forums are some useless sources for information. But today, when I really have to look into a discussion forum then I realized its use. As it is named “discussion”, it really meant discussing your topic online. In addition, people really do reply. I had never expected that to happen. As I need to prove my participation, hence I posted some question based on my topic and based on my curiosity on the topic.

Lastly, today’s e-learning asked about how internet has enriched my academic. If it were not for the presence of internet, I would not be able to blog the past few entries and this entry now. It had helped me in a lot of project. Without internet, we will have to do research from books. As a result our resource will be very limited. Internet can provide the same resource to a large number of people at the same time. We can also narrow down the results through keyword search. Hence, research is no longer as tedious as before. Technology had lead to invention of MetaCrawler which has the ability to at one go, retrieve relevant resource from a few search engines. This makes research more efficient.

Marking an end to Episode 6

Posted by iMcelestinE at 7:51 PM