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xxx .Welcome to ys' EIR blog=D♥. . .
Me
Yingshan TPPID yr 1
currently having CDS of EIR(effective internet research)
my research topic: the role of design in the global go-green movements


Wanted
i want to try my best to do well in this CDS=)
i've got the xxx=D


Hatreds
God tolds us to love instead of hate=D

Speaks

Past
xDJanuary 2009
xDSeptember 2011

Exits
Xianling's blog
Zuraizan's blog


JukeBox
lalala~


Credits
EchoesOfLove
deviantart
Software: paint, photoshop

Tuesday, January 27, 2009'






After all the lessons I had, I still prefer Google.com as my research tool (Is it a good or bad thing? =P) Google as search enignes enable to find relevant information I wants most of time. A few days before I tried to use Google search using my EIR research topic: the role of design in global g0-green movements.
(role) AND (design) AND (global OR wordwide) AND ( g0-green OR eco-friendly) AND (movements)

and the first website in the results list is
my OWN EIR BLOG. =0
haha?

It doesn't mean that Google is not effective, as my blog, indeed, is about this topic: the role of design in global g0-green movements.

But I need to scroll down to find other sources which are useful to me.

Most of people, (and I am one of them) think this CDS is quite useless and easy to manage. However, as more lessons I had and practical worksheets I did, I starting to like this CDS as I know more about internet. Internet research is not just only about Google or Yahoo. I have learned what is meta-search engine, subject directory, invisible websites, and Google is just one of search enigne we commonly used. I've leaned that there are still so much more in internet I don't know...I realised there are so much more to explore after this CDS class. or maybe, my EIR class just started. =)



Thursday, January 22, 2009'

Youtube is a website where users can up load, share and view video clips.
Actually I didn't visit youtube.com as much as my friends do. But as I realised the benefits of youtube, I started to used it more for different purposes like entertainment, research. For entertainment, I like to search music videos of my favourite songs and with regards to research, I use youtube for project research on the related topic, sometimes I would use video to show to the class for a project presentation. When I want to learn to use something, I like to use youtube as the steps shown will be clearer than books.
It's useful as a wide varity of videos are provided. Although there are crticisms on youtube, it's still a useful website because of the wide range of topics it covered. It can be a source of entertainment or information and knowledge.


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DisCuSsions...#$^&?*!!talk(+=&%?e@!~

the activity we did in class:
---> OLE Discussion Board.
----->Post my response to the questions given under Discussion Forum:


----->How do I feel about posting my views on the topic posted on OLE Discussion Forum?
It's interestng to read different people' opinions as we all think differently. I actually learned quite a lot through reading their thoughts, opinions, what they have learned. I can express my views freely, but it's important not to be biased.

----->online discussion VS face-to-face discussions
I feel both online discussion and face-to-face in-class discussions has its own benefits. Face-to face discussions allow more interactions between people to be involved whereas online discussions is convenient, more than one topic can be discussed at same time.

----->Is this e-learning activity meaningful to me?
Through this activity, I can exchange my ideas and view with others, and understand better about different search facilities through discussions. This activity allows us to know how it is like to be involved in a discussion forum.


Tuesday, January 20, 2009'

my dream holiday:
La Ville-Lumière.
Paris


I always want to go Paris. It's one of the world's leading cultural centre. The Eiffel tower, Sacré-Cœur Basilica, the museums and monuments in Paris really attract me to visit.


the website I choose to evaluate on:
http://www.paris.fr/portail/english/Portal.lut?page_id=8118

This website helps online visitors to know more about the well-known parks and gardens, famous museums, theatres and other attractions in the city. Besides provding information on the city's highlights, there are also information like guide for foreign residents, history of Paris to allow visitors know Paris deeper as a city.

The purpose of this site hence is to attract more tourists and as well as foreign residents to choose Paris as a place to live.

The mysterious charm of Paris attracts me to go visit this city. I'm particualrly interested in visiting the musuems in Paris. I felt arts can be found everywhere in this city, Paris is a city of art to me. As one of the world's most beautiful cities, Paris possesses an enormous cultural richness. It's rich in culture and art influnce might be the reason why Paris attracts me.



Thursday, January 15, 2009'
I wasn't able to go for the previous lesson and I realised I have missed quite a lot when I came for class today. I've showed my EIR portfolio (draft) to the lecturer and managed to
get some practicable suggesions to improve my work. Now I need to start doing practicals for the previous class I have missed.



Evaluation of Internet Resources : Evaluation Criteria


we were told to visit this website: http://www.talkingcock.com/, evaluate this website to comment and justify whether this website is sustainable or not.

the criteria for evaluating websites:


•Purpose
•Coverage
•Authority
•Accuracy
•Currency
•Accessibility
•Presentation and Arrangement
•Usability
•Overall Quality

talkingcock.com is a website for Singaporeans to express their opinions and thoughts. (I'm not really interested in this websites as I'm not Singaporean and I feel there isn't much useful information as it's a website of jokes mainly on events happened in Singapore) The layout of talkingcock.com appears to be quite interesting to me. Red as background able to catch attention of visiters, the introduction of the website is also interesting to read. Important things
like authority which needs to take note when visiting this website have been listed down in a clear format.

I used criterias like purpose, coverage and authority to evaluate this website. I think purpose is one of the important criteria. By evaluate the objectives of various websites help us to
differentiate one another and understand better.
talking.com is basically about sharing of personal opinions and stories, so information there might not be useful. (can be biased and hence not reliable.)


Tuesday, January 13, 2009'

Invisible Web (Databases)

Today I have learned another Internet search facility, Invisible Web.
Databases are test pages, files or other often high-quality authoritative infromation availiable via the world wide web that you can not find using general web search engines due to the search engines dynamically generated pages of little value beyond single use or sometimes pages deliberately excluded by their owners.

I can't say that databases are effective than other search facilities such as search engines, meta-search and subject directories. Sometimes databases might be more effective in research of certain topic you want to search on. But for my reseach topic I found it quite hard to find related information.

At first, I was expecting to get more related information than before since it's databases. However I'm quite disappotinted with the results. I did not managed to get much information regarding to my reseach topic.

I tried to use all the key words to search using databases like what I did when using other search facilities, but I found I could not able to find any results. So I cut down my key words to search again and finally I get a few relevant resources for my research topic.


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Although I was not able to find as much as information as I thought before, I will still consider to use databases for research in my study. As the information found is reliable and up-to-date.
I think it's quite helpful to use different search facilities to do research. The reason why I couldn't find much information using databases is possibly because there isn't much information on the topic I choose to research. But I believe it will be helpful if I have research need to do in future. I'm doing research for my module material and process recently, so I think the practical worksheets I did will be helpful to my research.


Thursday, January 8, 2009'

More Research
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Today I used different search facilities to do research on my topic
Search Facilities:


Search engine: (http://www.monash.com/spidap4.html)
Firstly keyword searching then refining your search, extract documents that match all criteria
sort by relevance and then create results page.
Google (http://www.google.com/)
Altavista (http://www.altavista.com/)
Askjeeves (http://www.askjeeves.com/)

Meta search engine: (http://www9.org/w9cdrom/165/165.html)
Meta search engines and other agent-based search tools provide a uniform query interface for Internet users to search for information. Depending on users' needs, they select relevant sources and map user queries into the target search engines, subsequently merging the results.
IxQuick (http://www.ixquick.com/)
Kartoo (http://www.kartoo.com/ )
Mamma (http://www.mamma.com/)
MetaCrawler (http://www.metacrawler.com/ )
Vivisimo (www.vivisimo.com)

Subject directories: (http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/internet/archives/page9212.cfm)
Subject directories group Web sites by topic. The information in a subject directory is usually selected and sorted by a human intermediary. Subject Directories are often a good place to start your research.
Yahoo (http://dir.yahoo.com/?skw=yahoo+directory)
Galaxy (http://www.dalaxy.com/)
GO Network (http://www.go.com/)

After using different search facilities I managed get more facts relevant to my research topic.
I still prefer using search enigne to do my research more as I used to using it most of times and it enables to find relevant infromation most of time. However, I also support using meta search engines and subject diretories. They provide additional information. In this way, they might be more effective than search engine sometimes. Hence it's best to search using different search facilities.
meta search engine and subject directories are similar

I found meta search engine is quite interesting.
for example, http://www.kartoo.com/
kartoo.com, shows the searching results by mind-map, each key word will link to other apposite word then the website links. I feel it's quite a easy way find the suitable information you want. You can easily get to know the clues of the website by looking at the key word, unlike when using search engine you have to read the title and short description below each link.

-What benefits do I get when using different search facilities to search for resources related to my topic?
Basically it allows me to obtain more information from more websites and I'm able to find more useful resources relate to my topic.



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site feeds:

-How do I feel about using site feeds in my blog? Would I use this in future?
I think it's quite convenient to use as it enables me to access my friend's blog easily (as no need to memorise their blog url) so I will visit their blogs more frequently to see their updates for references. Hence certainly I will use it in future.


Wednesday, January 7, 2009'
Today our task is to based on our research topic, create a suitable search strategy and use the following search enigne to find relevant information.

# Google (http://www.google.com/)
# Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/)


I found some quite interesting information/resources by using google to search and I'm quite impressed by the variation of these information.

Basically google.com providing easy access to billions of web pages and has many special features to help you to find exactly what you're looking for or similar/relevant resources. On other hand, scholar.google.com provides you information from articles, books, etc.
Overall, I think google.com is more effective helping me find resources related to my research topic.

Firstly, the related results the 2 search engine found out:
google.com:
Results 1 - 10 of about 95,800 (role) AND (design) AND (go-green OR eco-friendly OR environmental-friendly) AND (gobal OR worldwide) AND (movements). (0.43 seconds)
scholar.google.com:
Results 1 - 10 of about 2,030 for (role) AND (design) AND (go-green OR eco-friendly OR environmental-friendly) AND (gobal OR worldwide) AND (movements). (0.26 seconds)

google.com provides more sources as the results is from various website whereas scholar.google.com only focus on articles and books. In this way, using scholar.google.com seems able to find more reliable sources. However, google.com provide more varity of resources, and hence more information relating to my research topic.

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-My participation in one of the Discussion Forums related to my research topic that I had searched.

I feel it's important not to be biased with your posts or others and I think it's quite helpful for my research by participate in discussion forums in a way as I can get to know others' opinions and gain more knowlege. But because it's a discussion forum, some of the posts can be biased and not reliable since anyone can post their opinions. There might not be much useful informaion as some comments might be just personal opinions.

I feel discussion forums plays a quite important role as it allows people all over the world to discuss certain issues together.
I do feel a bit anxious about talking to others I do not know. I was worry about how others think of my comments, whether they do agree or disagree and what they will response my posts. But I still think it going to be helpful for my research by getting various comments from different people. Different people have different point of view, so I will be able to understand my topic better through varied opinions/feedback.


The Jagriti Yatra discussion forum > environmental issues
#Responding to an existing discussion topic

Go Green
by abhishekseth on Mon Dec 01, 2008 4:58 pm
Today everyone is bothered to minimise their carbon footprints. I work in an IT company where our PC's are online 24 hrs a day.We follow a strict rule of switching of the monitors when not in use. Use of Lifts only when extremely required is one of the small contribution from my side to prevent wastage of electricity. Let's discuss on how each one of us is contributing to save the mother nature.

<-my response

#Posting a new discussion topic/question:



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After all the research, it's important to do citation and bibliography

Sources should be cited when adding material that is challenged or likely to be challenged, when quoting someone, when adding material to the biography of a living person, when checking content added by others, and when uploading an image.
Citation allows a reader to find the source and verify that it supports material.
(From Wikipedia)

By doing citation and bibliography, it's actually like doing a summary for your research: what you have found out and what other relevant informations for your research.
It also helps others to read for reference and will also be convenient for self checking.


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What I want to buy if I have $500?

Doll :
Senior Leira milk
products code：s-leira1
Production of goods：
brand：--
weight：2.50 kg
price：$270(US dollar)

http://www.angell-studio.com/en/index.php

The doll I wan to buy is around S$360 It's the basic price for this doll.
(a body without eyes, wigs, faceup and clothes)
There are details in this website page if you want to buy the eyes in the picture with the doll, or with the faceup how to order and what is the price.



So I plan to buy the doll with only it's faceup, (the clothes I will try to make by myself) and it costs around $450.


The eyes and the wig I decided to buy from other websites, so perhaps it will be cheaper.
http://www.dollmore.net/index.php


14mm Dollmore Eyes (H10)
Code: 20061202060907
Price: $7 (US dollar)
Manufacturer: Dollmore


I decided to buy the wig from this website after comparison of the price and design.
http://www.leekeworld.us/


Product Details
Size : 7~8inch
fit : M type of Leekeworld / MSD of volks
Sample Color : #12 - Brown
There are total 22 colours to choose.

the doll body + eyes + wig = around S$500=)



I feel that the few websites here are quite easy to search for my shopping list items. All the detailed information of the product has been listed there. Although there are so many different design, you can find your ideal products within a short period of time by looking through the various categories.


Besides the pictures of the dolls are eye-catching, these websites are well organised, and easy to find the items you interested to buy with detailed descriptions. They also provide other extra services such as help people like me who doesn't have credit card to purchase and explain in steps how to order the product.
They also provide tips like how to take care of the products. That's why I choose these websites.

Basically, the purpose of these websites is trying to advertise their products. For the main page, the pictures of the best selling dolls are putting at the top of the websites to attract people to buy. However, I found it's different for http://www.leekeworld.us/. Rather than pictures on top of the homepage, information such as notices of different events are putting there. But everydoll has quite numbers of pictures of different positions and costumes is same for every websites. As they want customers to know the product better. There is still a bit difference in the purpose of these websites. Some more focus on selling the main body of the doll, some more concentrate on accessories of the dolls.


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Research...
The topic I choose is Discuss the role of design in the global go-green movements. I feel that in the year 2008, everything is emphasis on going green, how we live to be more environmentally friendlly. Design, hence plays a crucial role. Since I'm a design student, this topic appears to be more interesting to me to research on it.

My first practical work is to identify the categories of Internet resources and then compare the different categories and purposes of these Internet resources.


This practical work is actually harder than I thought it is, and I spent more time than I expected. It's because I have to consider whether the sources is reliable and useful or not.


What I have learned from doing is practical is how to choose a more helpful resource for my researches by looking at the different categories and objects of these resources. It's very crucial as it helps in a way to ensure the accuracy/reliablity of the information.

I used to copy and paste parts of information of the source from websites which I think it's useful, and excerpt the part and just use it without take note of purpose of the resource.


Tuesday, January 6, 2009'

Intro
Although I am very tired recently, I am glad that I did not late for the first day of class.
The lecturer and classmates are friendly. We had a short introduction about ourselves and I'm happy to get acquainted with my senior, Rachel. The whole activity is quite fun and I believe the whole class get to know one another better now.
And I hope by the end of this CDS, I'm able to use internet as a more effective research tool.