Activity 10

A metaphor to describe this whole process of learning EIR would be falling sick.

This is because the workload of this whole module is given everyday and consistency cum diligence is needed to excel for this module. Therefore, if you are not careful or inconsistent in the work given, you will fall.
But after we are sick, we recover.
This module has its own benefits as we get to learn how to do research more effectively. The bonus of blogging, which I believed, has bring determination and perseverance in our work because it is a fun thing to do.
Everything has a good and bad side just like falling sick. :)

Reflection: Dream holiday

Activity 3 reflection : Choosing our dream holiday!

Look at this house surrounded by trees! :D That is my dream holiday!
I have decided to go to this place because I love nature and houses that are built with woods.
That's why I chose somewhere far away from the city and this place is perfect for me!

It has beautiful amenties inside and most importantly, there's WIFI! It's an irony to have internet connection in a rural area eh?

With that said, how do I get all these information?
Well, it is from their own website http://www.thewoodstreehouses.com/index.html
It's accessibility and usability is good because we are not required to sign in or register to view their information and it is well organized with headings on top of the website to show us the navigation.
The information are clear and succinct even though there are spelling and grammar mistakes in their hotel descriptions (which I'm quite surprised).

Overall, it is a a good website but not an excellent one because it doesn't provide more information about their surroundings and tourist attractions so after we stay in the hotel, we can know where to head out for some activities built around the area. It also doesn't have a history page about itself to feed us more about them.

The Woods Treehouse Resort Luxury Treehouses and Bungalows: Treehouses and FAQ
Retrieved from http://www.thewoodstreehouses.com/treehouses.html

MY DREAM HOLIDAY

And so......



welcome to....

                                                         NEVERLAND RANCH!

This is exclusively, my dream holiday.
I have always, I repeat, ALWAYS, wanted to go to Neverland Ranch.
Unfortunately, it is closed down and nobody can enter it, but trust me, I will sneak in the minute I reach there.
And because it is not a place for any visitation, thus, there's no tourism/travelling website for this place.

Did I mention that I love nature a lot?

And the kind of nature that I desire to visit and stay, must have a lot of greens in it!

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                                                             A luxury treehouse! :D
This is a twin treehouse designed with beautiful amenities that is ideal for two couples or special friends! It is located in the US, Missisipi Arkansas and the place is called The Woods Treehouse Resort.

Walk through the French doors into a Great Room with 16 foot ceilings, seperated in the middle by a large waterfall and covered porch, The Twin Treehouses offer large Jacuzzi tubs for two in bay, windows looking out into the trees next to the waterfall, have luxury linens and Egyptian cotton towels, glass walk-in showers, private water closets, king size custom beds, stone fireplace with large flatscreens, wetbars with mini fridge, microwave, coffee maker and sink, and wifi among the rest of the amenities.

                                                        The rates are $149 for two nights!

                                     There will be a discount of $25 for four nights or more reservation.

Reservations may be taken by completing the contact form above by clicking on the contact link or by calling 479-253-8281 daily from 10 AM to 9 PM (CDT).

The most important feature of this hotel website is the FAQ as it provides me with all the important information that I need especially the location, contact numbers, opening hours, reservation enquiries so on and so forth. These are the most basic information we need whenever we are tavelling to other places ;)

Activity 6 Reflections

a) I find that both the invisible web (databases) and search engines such as meta-search or subject directions are equally effective, depending on what kind of sources we re looking for.

The databases is more suitable for searching statistical reports and up-to-date newspaper articles. The results will be at least 80% relelvant to our research topic and the sources and articles are highly reliable because their sources are from newspaper that are publish around the world. Thus, it will be good for research work.

Search engines work fine as well, however, it shows too much search results which may hit million of results and most of them aren't even relevant. The sources may not be reliable because they may give you the information that you need but the sources may come from people's opinion (eg. forums, social network,) so it is important to check more than one sources to confirm our research results.

b) I will use EBSCOhost for my research topic. My research topic is 'Roles and relevance of traditional practices in modern society'. EBSCOhost is a great research tools because it consists of convenient features to help us search specificly for our sources and results. It has features that asked for the publishing date of (article/journal/abstract/bibliography/book/case study etc....) to choose which one we would like to search for. It covers almost on any topics and the sources mostly reliable. 

c) I will use LEXISNEXIS for my course, Moving Images (Video). LEXISNEXIS is a database for us to search for newspaper articles locally and internationally! We usually need to read newspapers on movie reviews, the latest news of any productions (locally/internationally) , the arts development in Singapore as well as Life! from Straits Times. This is so that we are updated on the film industry and the direction we can venture in the future.

Reflections on activity 1&2

Blog shopping!!! :D

Or rather E-shopping activity. haha.

I do love online shopping because firstly, I don't have to get out of the house and waste any energy to travel (I'm lazy :ppp).

Secondly, there are many products which people can put on their website so that we can choose, I mean obviously, BUT, there are some websites which provides more products,choices,availibility and exposure compared to a retail outlet store, whereby there are some products which we are only available from overseas. :D

Thirdly, we were given '500 bucks' to feel rich for a moment in our life.
Geez, better than nothing. :p

Just kidding, my third reason is that blog shopping allows us to search for a lot of online shopping websites and through that we get to discover a lot more shopping websites which in turn causes us to be calculative and cheapo because by the time we had enough of online shopping, we know which product to buy. We may even get the suppliers to sell us a certain quatity of their products at a cheap price and we can sell it at a higher price (hopefully a product which is copyrighted and very new, so people won't copy the idea).
And we get to earn money and learn some business tactics as well.

HOWEVER, there are sure to have some cons to it because there are cases whereby people who bought products online and got cheated of their money or you don't get to see the quality of the products before paying.

How I hope the $500 is real. :)

2. Why do you think there is a need for researchers to know the different purposes of websites? Explain using examples of websites you often visit or those which you have encountered while researching on your research topic.

It is crucial for researchers to know the different purposes of websites because they need the correct information to begin with and they can't just find any information from any websites without knowing whether their sources are true or reliable. Thus, they are called researchers for a reason... right? Their information MUST be the truth and the correct information so A LOT of research, studies and efforts are needed for them to do. 

3. Choose an advocacy website. Compare this advocacy website with the shopping website you had used for your E-shopping websites by using THREE differences.

An advocacy website will be http://www.dredf.org/.
This website is 'The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund' which is founded in 1979. It is an independent organization which is led by people with disabilities or with children who are disabled. They survived mainly on donations from donaters or from the public.

They are unhappy with the government's inadequate ability to take care of the disabilities or other bad cases/discrimination that they decided to form an organization to support, help and protect themselves.

My E-shopping website is http://thecamerawise.com
This website is a online blog shop which sells mainly DSLR or cameras accessories. It is solely a business that is being lead by business people. Mostly importantly this isn't an organization.

4. Explain the most meaningful lesson you had learnt from Practical 1&2.

The most meaningful lesson which I'd learn from Practical 1 &2 is that I learn to think deeper in terms of researching for information. I was so used to the mundane reaction and lifestyle that when an assignment/work is thrown to me, the first website I would visit is Google. It awaken a part of me that there are actually other websites which provide true information and I don't have to always depend on Google to survive. (btw, not all information from google is correct)
I hope I won't turn back to my old habits of researching but think a little but more before I research.

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HELLO! :D

Hi, my name is Dorcas. Dorcas Yang Jingyi.
I have a nickname call Jingo :P

I love singing, drawing, taking photographs, talking, swimming and doing handicrafts.
My favourite color is green! :D And that explains why I love nature so much.

My one and only idol is MICHAEL JACKSON.
I can't explain how awesome he is until you watch all his videos.

I frequent Facebook, twitter and postsecrets.
Hang out place?
I don't really have one. :p
A quiet place then yes.
The beach.

I'm currently in a film course - Moving Images and my favourite tv programme is Extreme Makeover Home Edition. TY PENNINGTON IS MY LIVING HERO! :D

I believe I'm born to CREATE but I have yet to discover my path to my destiny. ;)
(I will tell you once I found it)