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 Criteriawe 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.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^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.