Throughout this one whole month learning Effective Internet Research, I found that the learning journey of EIR is like driving a plane in an open-wide blue sky. Ms Farida, the captain of the plane, whereby she teaches us how to evaluate search facilities, evaluate websites and proper usage of internet. This is because without a proper guidance and training, we are like flying a direction-less plane that is going nowhere. Therefore I think she deserves the honour of being the best captain throughout the flight….LOL.
First, we learnt the basic of internet search facilities and differentiate search engine, Meta search engine and subject directory. After all the basics training, we learnt to apply them through in class activities and research topic. Here I’d learnt new things and their proper function, even though I might have used them before, but not in a correct way of usage.
Landing on the SecondLife platform is our first virtual travelling destination. Exposure to SecondLife is another great activity as well as we learnt how to use our own created simulation character in virtual world to chat and learn more new things. For instance, virtual shopping in SecondLife shops, I met with different people in SecondLife world and actually did window shopping there.
Last but not least, to my fellow classmates, contribution from all of them in the group work shows that group spirit from our class should not be under-estimated. At first we met some obstruction, where no one wants to volunteer to be the head editor of the wiki. I can tell that “The Captain” was quite frustrated at that time, but luckily in the end we still managed to choose 3 group leaders from all of us. The wiki collaborative work was a very awesome experience because every one of us has provided their own opinion and information in order to make this complete wiki. Hence, credits to the wiki group work editors, who spend their time on editing and compiling all the information to make up such a decent and useful wiki.
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