Y . UIR practical 9 . Thursday, January 31, 2008 .
Throughout my UIR journey, I've learnt quite a number of stuff which is useful to me like blogging, searching using a efficient manner, using wiki and different type of websites, how to evaluate a website by certain criteria, etc. The most important lesson I've learnt is searching for information using a efficient manner, meaning the usage of boolean operators and key variations. Searching by this way will ensure only relevant results are returned therefore saving time in researching for information. It is especially useful when I need to do any research for projects and self-study.
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7:39 PM
Y . UIR practical 7 . Sunday, January 20, 2008 .
In UIR practical 7, I'm supposed to log in into the UIR-Rawkz Wiki and post my comment for the group summary about the findings.
I've post in the two internet resources that I've found and the coverage of both the resources in the wiki. I've learnt how to use the UIR Wiki better and learnt that it is a good choice to use a wiki to do projects in times when group members prefer to do their work at home. As the whole work can be edited by any group member, group members are free to work on it during their own free time and they can add on or edit each other work if they think is necessary. It can then be read through by all members to acknowledge the work easily.
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6:06 AM
Y . UIR practical 6b . .
In UIR practical 6b, I'm supposed to post a discussion post on a internet discussion forum, evaluate one more internet resource that I've found and answer a question on the OLE discussion board.
I've start a post on the world affairs board discussion forum. The title i created was impact of terrorism on world economy and the question i post to discuss was 'What are the impact of terrorism on the world's economy?'
The URL of the another internet resource that I've found is: http://www.g7.utoronto.ca/speakers/baynenov2001.html
This website address more details of the impact of terrorism on the world's economy. They have state that the financial institutions housed in the twin towers has been affected greatly. There is loss of business confidence in the country as firms are more reluctant to take risks or undertake new ventures. Aviation and tourism has also been hit extremely hard with the industries associated with them. There has also been a drop in customer confidence.
Terrorism has also provided a distraction effect. Countries start to focus too much on how to solve and prevent terrorism problem and neglect other problems which should not be in the case.
Next will be the answer to the question for the OLE discussion forum.
Question: Briefly explain how Internet has enriched your academic life. Illustrate your answer using at least ONE Internet resource you had learnt in UIR.
Answer: Internet has enriched my academic life by providing me with all the information about everything. I'm able to search for more information about stuff that I'm not sure and getting all the information I need for my projects. The internet also includes manuals for differenet programs available and makes life easier when I need to do some self-study.
I have learnt that Internet resource can be categorized into 3 categories: organizational, personal and subject-based. I have learnt that http://www.snort.org/ is subject-based Internet resource. It contain manuals and downlads of the program snort and the manuals help me figure out how to use the program while doing my project using the program snort.
From this practical, I've learnt that another way I can get answers to question I have is through a online discussion forum. If the question is posted correctly, I may get a chance of getting an answer from a professional, any user who wish to make his comments. However, it has one disadvantage and that is I may have to wait for a long period of time before I get a reply. It is not as efficient as searching from a search engine.
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4:53 AM
Y . UIR practical 6a . .
For UIR practical 6a, I'm suppose to choose a topic for my assignment 2 and find the keywords that I wish to use. I'm suppose to think of variations for each keyword too. Finally, I will need to search for two resources with search phrases we have created and evaluate one of the Internet resource.
My group has chosen the topic 'Discuss the impact of terrorism on the world economy'. The keywords my group have found out were 'impact', 'terrorism', 'world', 'economy'. For impact, we have variations words like effect, affect, influence, outcome. For terrorism, we have variations words like foreign attack. For world, we have variations words like global. For economy, we have variations words like financial progress.
We then come out with 1 search phrease: (impact OR effect) AND (terrorism OR “foreign attack”) AND (world OR global) AND (economy OR financial progress)
I found my first resource and the URL is: http://bluered-bluered.blogspot.com/2007/05/terrorism-and-world-economy.html
This website is actually found in a blog and it bascially give me some important information about the impact of terrorism on the world's economy like foreign investments drop after terrorism occurs which is overall result in a great impact of the world's economy.
The article in this website actually gets its source from another website. In that website, they have examples of how they calculate the impact of the economy, other risks which may affect the economy, graphs and statistics on the economy.
From this practical, I've learnt how to use boolean operators much better and with the help of key variations, I'm able to get more relavant results that I want. It is a very useful skill as I would apply it when I need to do a research on any my project or read up on any subject.
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3:54 AM