Friday, February 1, 2008

Episode 9 - Finally... Last Episode

Throughout the entire UIR journey, the most important lesson is Using Internet as a Research Tool. From this lesson, I learnt the presence of Meta search engines. My research resource used to be Yahoo! and Google only. However, UIR had taught me to use Meta search engines like MetaCrawler. It not only can perform search on Google and Yahoo! at the same time, it also perform search from MSN and Ask. All 4 at the same time, extracting the best information of all 4 search engines. Research had been made better and easier for me ever since i learnt to use it.

And, UIR Assignment 1 is some how related to this topic, which requires me to used the evaluation criteria learnt from the lesson, Evaluation of Internet Resources, to evaluate 3 main types of internet facilities. My evaluation in the project again proves to me the usefulness of a Meta search engine.

I feel that the combination of these two topics taught me new knowledge and better research skills which achieve my main objective of taking up UIR as a CDS. I had never knew internet research can have so much theory behind it. In conclusion, I have learnt skills to judge the quality of the research tool in order to do better research. Not forgetting, the lecturer had been very approchable and patient in guiding me through the projects and understanding the lecture notes.

Signing off... Celestine =P

Posted by iMcelestinE at 9:07 PM