Hello! I'm back. Back to do week 3 reflections blog regarding Google and Google Scholar. Our tasked was to compare the effectiveness of the search engine of Google and Google Scholar. Let's compare. =)
Google
Google allows user to preview the page before clicking on to the button. By previewing the page, the user will somehow know what's inside the webpages.
Another unique features on Google is that, it has functions which allows users to change the location of Singapore, the standard result of the page as well as the timing of the website.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar on the other hands, have an extra features which allows users to choose what types of websites they wanted to read. There are also citation features and at least summaries features too.
Another features which is Advanced Scholar Search. This allows user to search the articles by typing out the author name, publication, date, collections such as legal patent and journals.
Overall, I'm impressed with Google search engine. Because it is much more accurate and relevant compared to Google Scholar. Google Scholar doesn't meet any of my research requirement and it's kind of complicated to use. The date of the Google and Google Scholar is different. Google are much more up-to-date while the Google Scholar are quite outdated.
Discussion Forum.
The next tasked we must do is that, we must participate in discussion forum. I've decided to respond on to the forum regarding the topic of "Youth Living In the High Life".
From the website, http://reach.gov.sg
I feel by participating in a discussion forum help me to do my research regarding about my topics. Before I started to type in my thoughts, I feel a bit anxious and worry that what I think and type might be totally wrong even if it's just my own opinion. In the forum discussion, there's Dr who also contributed in thee forum.
Citation and Bibliography.
Why must we do citation and bibliography? Well, for me, I think that, it is important to do citation and bibliography as to prevent plagiarism. This is to acknowledge the authors who have done their work. It is simply rude to not cite the work they have done. Also, it can be use as reference for other to read and track back the website. It is really important and it a must-do-thing to cite the reference that we have search for.
Stay tuned for another entry. =)
Hello! I'm back again. It's Hari Raya Haji today and wishing all the muslims people Selamat Hari Raya Haji! No school today but we got task to do on the Second Life. I swear to god, that I'm so noob about Second Life. Haha. But not to worry, I manage to play that. =)
My task now is to explore the Second Life shopping area. So, I choose Roosa to explore. Basically the products are more on clothings and fashion such as skirts, T-Shirt,leggings, etc.
This is where they sell T-shirts and some other clothing for the youths especially.
The next store I explored is all about the baseball cap. But the cool thing is that the product are all in an online catalog. When I wanted to check the price of the cap, it will direct me to a notes contain the description of the baseball cap.
The look of the shop is kind of cool and it really met my taste. It is more to teenagers style and it same goes to the songs inside the store. I feel that it is easy to shop there because they placed the product neatly and it is easy to find what clothes I wanted to buy.
It is easy to move around however the speed of access is too slow for me. The help facilities is useful for me and it helped me a lot during the activities. I didn't meet anyone tho.
The experience I've learnt from this virtual shopping compared to the E-Shopping Spree is that there are more choices of things I wanted to purchase compared to the online shop. But good thing about the E-Shopping Spree is that, they provide us with the product's descriptions and reviews from other buyers compared to virtual shopping they did not provide any descriptions at all. This is difficult for me to know which one is a good quality products etc. It is important to have a product's descriptions and reviews as virtual shopping doesn't have any one to ask to.
For this, I learnt how to explore and to shop on the Second Life even though there's no money involve. Also, I know how to pick items from the shop itself and also using the help facilities they provide for us. The most challenging part is that, I cannot buy the items as there's an error when I click on the Buy icon as shown in the print screen picture below.
On top of that, it's fun exploring the Second Life. Till then, I'm out for now. Goodnight! =)
This week I had to choose discussion on the trends of youth spending habits which is number 11. Initially, this is not the topic I wanted to choose but since someone have taken the other topics I quickly choose this topic. After all, it's not that bad because this topic about youth spending a lot is so common in Singapore. It is really a trend in Singapore for youth to spend quite a lum sum of money just for branded stuffs. Upon choosing the topics, we were asked to search our topic using the 4 given category. They are, organizational website, e-Magazine/journal, blog and discussion forum.
Each of them have their own advantages and disadvantages.
Let's take a look at the organizational websites. I think this website can be trusted as the informations given are mostly the facts. It is maintained by a particular organization and they would usually get the facts from other sources as well. The website also will include pictures and some other websites related to the particular topics. I think, organizational websites is the best in terms of finding the informations.
Let's move on for the e-Magazine/Journal websites. This website are based on the news and the contents are mostly quote from local or international newspapers and it can be generic. However, it is hard to understand the way they interpret it and only certain people such as the business man will surf this website more as to update themselves with news around the world especially the business's news.
Next is the blog website. Blog. Who doesn't know what is blog is. It's just an opinion of one party. It is not that fact like organizational website but sometimes, their opinions are based on what they read or get from the other sources. Their informations are sometimes inaccurate and cannot be trusted also.
The last category is the discussion forum. Most of the content in discussion forum are mostly opinions and suggestions. The people will contribute ideas and opinions of any topics that was posted on the forum. However, it is difficult to research of some topics as some opinions are simply untrue and biased.
This is it. 2 entries per day. Till we meet again next week of EIR. =) See you!
If I have $500, I would like to buy DSLR extra lenses online. By buying this, I can take a lot of nice shots using special lenses. Different lenses can give me different kind of shots in terms of the pixels and zooming of the lenses.
This is what I would get for my DSLR camera.
Canon EF-S 55-250mm f 4.0-5.6 IS Telephoto Zoom Lens for Canon Digital SLR Cameras Features
This lens can retain compactness and lightness. The high zoom ratio lens is equivalent to a focal length of 88-400mm in the 35mm format and the image stabilizer effect equivalent to a shutter speed about 4 stops faster than the same size lens without Image Stabilizer. It also uses a UD-glass lens element to correct chromatic aberration for excellent image quality throughout the zoom range. The cost of this lens is $210.49.
Another item I would get if I have $500 is a headphone. Since I love to listen to songs when I'm out, I would love to hear it without any noise leak and the most important thing is the bass sound.
Audio-Technica ATH-SQ5 Portable Headphones
It is newly-developed Ø40mm drivers deliver a powerful and clear sound and sealed over-the-ear design effectively prevents sound leak. It is attached of a 0.5m cable with 1.0m extension for easy connection to most audio players and ear cups swivel for convenient storage. Thea headphones has a frequency response of 10~25,000 Hz. The cost of this Audio-Technica headphones is $129.99.
The purpose of the shopping website that I visited is to let people to know the reviews of any products that I want to buy or before I purchase it. This include the specifications of the products and the comparison of the similar products.
For the second week of EIR, I've learnt how to search of the products that I wanted to buy and also lookout for reviews from other customers who have bought it. It is important to check the review of the product as to not to get con by the sellers.
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