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