Blogging about TWITTER.. =D

TWITTER!! The moment I saw and heard of this Twitter, I have been thinking What is Twitter,is it easy to use etc. But after I decided to sign up for new account at Twitter my 1st impression about Twitter is that it was not useful to me as it is different than Facebook as user tweet more about their personal daily life. Not  only I can use Twitter either on my home laptop or school computers, even my hand phone I can get to use the Twitter Application as I can read and tweet anytime anywhere whenever I feel to tweet and read if I feel to do it..lol!! The reason of signing up for Twitter is that when getting this application install in my handphone and this application also need in my CDS module that is Effective internet research.

The benefit using Twitter in EIR lesson was very useful as it will help student to share their knowledge and their views about what the have learn throughout the EIR lesson. With that the students will be able to communicate more with other students and they can give opinions with their topics that the student discuss. Not only student can tweet in EIR class, the teacher also be able to post some related topics and the student can be to read the tweets and do some research given by the teachers. With this students will save time as the students no need to have to trouble themselves to ask teacher face to face during EIR class.

For me I prefer Blog is convenient than Twitter. The reason is that comparing Blog than Twitter was that in Blog we tend to express more and it also reflect what we have doing throughout our EIR lesson and be able to produce a long entry entry or even short post too. As in Twitter, the limits of post are limited as Twitter only allowed limited numbers of words and it was also same like SMS and the followers of the user Twitter will be able to read what the user had tweet. Blogs and Twitter as for me it still share same purpose and function but only had some different between them. With this both applications, we can able to express ourselves and share our opinions through this Twitter and Blog too. 

With that opinions about Twitter and Blog, That all for my post.. Stay tuned for more..Good Night Peeps!!

My Dream Holiday... ps: Hope my Dream came true..lol!!

When I had a chance to blog about Dream Holiday, I will get excited as I like to go on Holiday. Therefore, my dream Holiday will be in Europe continents and that is Amsterdam the capital of the Dutch or Netherlands.

Amsterdam became a metropolis since the second half of the sixteenth century. Amsterdam now hosts more than 750,000 residents from 175 different countries. 37% of the population belong to an ethnic minority. There is an open and tolerant atmosphere in the city. It is a very useful country and green environment too. As I view the official Amsterdam website, I noticed that there were many bicycles around this capital and it obviously shown in the picture above too.  I think bicycle is the public transportation for the Amsterdam people beside the train, buses etc. As for this it is a good destination for me as I like to cycle and this is a good opportunity for me to cycle around this wonderful city. Amsterdam city  also known as The Bicycling Capitol of Europe.


To know more my dream destination, I visited the City official website iamsterdam (http://www.iamsterdam.com) to find out more information about Amsterdam on people, transportation, places of interest etc as well as the history too to add to my knowledge to the city.

The layout of this website is very useful and accessible. I really love the website layout as its easier for user to find useful information through this website. Like example,  when I select the  Living link category, it will beb bringing me to the page where more information about Amsterdam I can see such as the housing, education, work and the transportation. With this very useful information and the contents I find when I'm in Amsterdam, I will not facing any difficulties coping at there.

The most interesting part of the iamsterdam city website that there is also virtual map at the website. With the help of the virtual map, it can help the tourist like me to visit around the city without losing the way. The virtual map also useful and clear with the landmark stated below the map so it can help us more convenient.

In my own view and my opinion is that the tourism website is more convenient and accessible easilly as it has nice design layout. Therefore, the Iamsterdam website obviously meet the criteria and was very effective to that show me the right categories to the respective pages when I select the tabs of the respective category that the website had.

Want know more about Amsterdam: The Bicycling Capitol of Europe, Here a video for everyone..Feel to watch it guys :)

Video: Amsterdam: The Bicycling Capitol of Europe

Dream Holiday via Virtual World on Second Life


When I search of the my dream destination that is Amsterdam, I was glad to know that there are such destination in the virtual world that created by the user of second life. I've selected the region named Region: Amsterdam.  Ok lets have a sneak peak of the Region of Amsterdam that I'm in virtual world visiting my dream holiday with the images I display below.

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With this virtual life holiday experience, overall its was very fun and interesting experience to tour around my dream destination via the virtual world. Even though my dream Holiday going to Amsterdam will not come true in my real life, visiting the capital in virtual world also is enough for me to experience how Amsterdam look like although it is only in virtual world rather than virtual life. With those interesting post about holidays, it time for me to knock out and wait for my upcoming post ya. Good Night or should I say Good Morning!! Hehe.. TC!! =D

Practical 7 Blog Reflection on Citizen Journalism.

Ello Peeps.. Its me again to blog again... Well now I going to reflect what I be doing in last EIR lesson that is Practical 7 about Citizen Journalism. Based my own opinion, I think that Citizen Journalism is very interesting and useful too. One of the good main reason is that Citizen Journalism make people like us share  our opinions n views on certain news. Not only that, Citizen  Journalism also allow people to share news from anywhere anytime too. This may be a good news for the media especially the newspaper and news reporter as they will be not be the first be on the scene or heard the news and With the helping of Citizen Journalism I assure that news  that not been appearing in the media and news can be shared by them via online.

Ask for students, the benefits being Citizen Journalism is that thew will be able to interact with the community such as allowing them to view other articles that posted by the community. Other benefits is the student also can shared their own articles and be ready for comment and critics from the community With this view, student should respect the comment and critics in a good way and respect other community comment and views so the student learn that not being biased.

In the class, our teacher ask us to form a group to perform a task and evaluate STOMP website. To perform this task, we evaluate STOMP by Purpose, Coverage, Authority, Accuracy and Currency. I found this activity it very interesting and challenging too as we can share our own ideas and comments between our group members. And this can make our teamwork bonding as we make decision among group. During this group activity, I've found that different group had different opinions and there was not new to me and with this it will help to listen the other group views and opinions.

I will evaluate on STOMP by Authority. As we can see Stomp websites is created by the newspaper Strait Times. Whatever the news publish at the STOMP, it still edited by Strait Times . And it can be consider the news is valid.

Creating my Own STOMP about Early Childhood Trauma on people's Behaviour

First of all,  any news posted for my STOMP must have a references for the Citizen Journalist. As this will help them to support their own news effort. With the help of the references, the other user who had view my STOMP can find out where the useful and interesting information came from. With this opportunity, it will be easier and effective for the user. Beside of this references, my STOMP should  have discussion forum so that the community can comment and give some views on my discussion forum. With this forum it will be a debate between the community about my topic about early childhood Trauma. Lastly, my STOMP must be user friendly and mobile so that people can have easier and convenient access to STOMP at anywhere and anytime. OK peeps thats all for my post. Take care!! Good Night.

Searching via Database. Is it effective??

Hola everybody, its me again. So long I've never done a blog post since I'm very busy and my tight schedule. So this is my delay entry for the Practical 6 Searching via Database for my EIR. Ok let me explain, more information what I have learn on this related research that I learn during the EIR lesson.

Firstly, I had been searching the TP Database via Digital Library Portal via http://spark.tp.edu.sg/. When I had enter this Library portal, first at my thought is it was exactly no much different portal like other library portal like example the NLB (National Library Board). But after I had enter this portal, I saw a various numbers of Research Database such as EBSCOHost, Factiva, NewsLink etc. So my thoughts will if this portal was wrong.

To search my related topics that is Early Childhood Trauma via this database research, I decided to search via EBSCOhost. When I search the related topics in the search field, the search result outcome show many relevant journals. In my opinion, I find it was very useful. The search database result give me an interesting information about my given topics. This will help me more better for my research more effective.

EBSCOhost

Beside EBSCOhost, I also search via other research database like Factiva. As for Factiva when I want to search my given topic, the search result was not relevant as its show different topics that I want to search for. As a result I fount EBSCOhost is better research  database than Factiva. As Factiva will not be helping my research more useful and effective.

FACTIVA

Beside searching the TP Digital Library portal, there was another resources for the research portal and it is searching the Invisible web that is TP’s E-books database ITPRO via http://library.books24x7.com .  After I search my given topics in this database resource, I found that the search results are not relevant. It is because this related database doesn't have any relevant books or articles that containing my given topics. Other reason should be this database resources is not up to date. So my opinion that searching the Invisible web like E-books database ITPRO is not effective and useful compare than the digital library portal research database such as EBSCOhost.

E-BOOKS DATABASE ITPRO

With that knowledge of research database that will be the end of my entry. Pls wait for any interesting updates and post. Good evening and enjoy ur day. :)

3rd Week Reflection and Discussion Forum (Delay)

Ello Guys n gals...Whats up everybody... Now its time for me to update the reflections of week 3 of EIR lesson..It supposed to be on last week due to slight deay and well I'm here to blog about what I had done on the Week 3.

In the Week 3, we are given do tasked to compare Google and Google Scholar. This can help me to compare which sites is effective to search on my related topics.

Ok let me compare between Google and Google Scholar...

Google

Google is a search engine that can search all information we want to search for. Google also not only about search engine, the search engine provide other  features such as Everyday Essentials, Reference Tools, local search etc.

The search result size for Google show millions or billions of the results. However some results are not relevant because of not related to the topics we want to search for. Google are more outdated however it’s still has strength and weakness.

Google Strength

The search interface is straightforward, including an Advanced Search option. Google allows user to preview the page before clicking on to the button. By previewing the page, the user will have some sneak preview about website they searching for. Another unique features on Google is, it has functions which allows users to change the location of Singapore, the timing as well as the standard result of the relevant website.

Google Weakness

New sites, regardless of the quality of their content, get short shrift. It takes 2-3 months for the new pages to get into the Google. Then it takes time perhaps years for other "important" sites to discover the new site and link to it; and then months more for the new versions of those  pages with those new links to get into the Google index.

Google Scholar

 Google Scholar is to provide increased access to gray literature as it retrieves more than journal articles and includes preprint archives, conference proceedings and institutional repositories. Google Scholar also includes links to the online collections of some academic libraries. Including these access points in Google Scholar retrieval sets may ultimately help more users reach more of their own institution's subscriptions.  It’s also provide Citations.

The search result size for Google Scholar are same with Google as it show millions of result. The Google Scholar also provide current resources too and also relevant. However Google Scholar a bit outdated compare than Google.

Google Scholar Strength

Google Scholar may offer a number of versions of the same article depending on where it was found (the publisher's website, the author's website, a pre-print service, etc). However, always use the Library catalogue to search by title for journals that did not link to the full text through Google Scholar or where you are uncertain which version of an article to use.

Google Weakness

Google Scholar provides no information about which publishers or sites are searched, the extent of the material included and the frequency of updating, while the criteria for identifying an article or site as "scholarly" are still fuzzy.

Overall, I think Google Scholar is more effective compared than Google. The reason I choose Google Schoiar is 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.  That can help me to research more effective on my relative topics.

Discussion Forum

Ok now lets move on about discussion forum. We have been tasked to take part in the discussion forum or reply to the post about the related topic that we choose for.

I decided to take part at our local dicussion forum portal SgForums about my related topics.

 

To make sure i need more information abou t early childhood trauma, I decided to post new topics on Early Childhood Trauma on people's behavior on the ROAD Healch Centre forum board at SgForum.

Since I new and just post my topics i need to wait the reply from other user about my recent post. Hope that someone can reply my post and help me about my related topics research that are very useful.

I felt by participating in a discussion forum, it can help me to do my research regarding about my topics. Before I started to post the topics, I felt very worried as I'm scared that when other user reply my related topics  they give me information that are not very useful and out of topics.

Citations and Bibilography!!!!

Why must we have citation and bibliography? Well, for my opinion, I think that, it is important to have citation and bibliography as to prevent plagiarism. This is to acknowledge the authors who have done their hard own work and their effort. It is inconsiderate and wrong to duplicate their hard own effort . It can be use as reference for other to read and  keep track back the website too. Just remember whenever we search the related topics on the certain site, it is important to have citations and bibliography.

 

Stay tuned for more updates...

 

EIR E-Learning Week Virtual Shopping..

Hello Peeps, its me again...  This week I will touching about virtual world shopping at Second Life. We've been tasked to do this E-learning task for our e-learning lesson this week as our lesson fall on public holiday that is Hari Raya Haji... As for my opinion Second Life a bit OK for me but the application was very lagged and its make me difficult to move around when its lagged. But nevermind I still managed to get over it.

Ok let me tell u what I had done during Virtual shopping in Second Life, Firstly I visited Men Clothings M design@mall. There were many various types of clothings that available in that store like latest fashion,jeans and office wear.  The items that caught in my eyes was the denim jeans attached with the picture below as I like wearing jeans that are comfortable and trendy.

The next destination of my shopping tour was at Eline Paul Designs. The store had various latest fashion for Mens wear in Town and the designs of their clothings was very nice and unique until I want some stuff that I want to buy in this store. Like I want to buy the whole shop too. LOL!!

The last destination of my shopping quest is at the Car section. There were total 3 shops that I visited. The first auto mobile shop I visited is Haru Motors. There are many latest design models of cars in that shop and various of wonderful colours. I found that the car display in that particular shop was cool and eyes catching too. Next stop is Octane Cars and Accesories shop. This shop most focus on Sporty car and Racing types car. Its was very cool to explore this shop as I like this sporty and racing types of car as I'm a bit like to watch racing sports like Formula 1 etc. Not only cars, Octane also provided various kinds of Racing clothings and accessories. Lastly, the bike shop JFC. Honestly when I just stepped into this bike shop, I'm really excited and feel "Wow" because of the bikes that available there. The design of the bikes was super cool as if I want to ride the bike the now and riding around the city. hehe.. The bike I like the most is the Guns and Roses bike as I'm the fans of the rock band group Guns & Roses =D

Haru Motors

 

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After I had done with this virtual shopping, I felt that virtual shopping is more fun than the e-shopping spree as Virtual shopping has many various of choice of stuffs we can choose and purchase the items rather than the Online shopping. However, E-shopping spree  provide us with the product's descriptions and reviews from other buyers compared to virtual shopping as they did not stated the description at all . This as result  difficult for me to know which one is a good quality products etc and  it is very important to have a product's descriptions and reviews as virtual shopping doesn't have any one to ask to so it easy for us to shopping easily.

For this Second Life Virtual experience, overall I see that this activity was interesting to explore the virtual world of shopping even without cash. It's a pity that I can't buy the items as there was an error message simultaneously when I try to buy anything that I like to. I  know how to pick items from the shop itself and also managed using the help facilities that provided for us. However the performance of second life is to slow for me and very laggy too.

If this Virtual shopping world become a reality, I think that I will be enjoy shopping non stop and can bought many many car or motorbike too. hehe..If there a will there is way.

Overall, it is fun to explore Second Life and till then it is time for me to sign out and knock out. Wait for my upcoming hot,hip and cool blogs soon.Cya!! Rahman signing off!! Peace No War!  =D

Shopping Spree for $500 if I have a chance but I will just dream..lol!!

 

If i had $500 for my shopping spree, I will buy this lovely camera Nikon D300 Digital Camera with 18-55mm lens... The reason of I buying this that I need a camera and I want learn more photography skills as I have never been taking pictures for a long time.

Product features:

 

The D3000 is compatible with a broad range of world-famous Nikkor lenses and includes the versatile 3x, 18-55mm Zoom-Nikkor with Silent-Wave Motor autofocusing and Nikon VR image stabilization to combat picture blur caused by camera shake for sharper handheld pictures. Special moments are captured faithfully at up to 3 frames-per-second and displayed on a bright, 3-inch LCD monitor. The D3000's split-second shutter response eliminates the annoyance of shutter lag. To further simplify picture-taking in special situations such as portraits, sports, landscapes, and more, the D3000 features icon-identified Scene Modes that deliver beautiful results automatically in otherwise complex situations.

 

 

Another option if I have $500 is a bass guitar. I want this cool item as I want to practice more my bass skils so I can play it very well. Like people say "Practice make prefect". Maybe I can be a rockstar or have my jamming gigs in the future if I have a bass and more practice. For me brand is not important but the quality must be good, And also must suit to my budget, lol!

 

 

 

Ibanez ergodyne eda905

 

The purpose of the shopping website that I visited is to let people to know the reviews of any items that I want to buy or before I purchase it. This include the specifications and descripion of the items and the comparison of the  similar items This will help us to choose the best for the item which we can use for every day life.

For my 2nd week of EIR, I've learnt how to do online shopping,search items that we wish to buy and reviews by customer that had been bought the items before. It is important to check the review of the product as to not to get con by the sellers. 

 

Ok peeps its time for me to stop here...Ja matta everybody!!!