EIR Practical 10

Activity 1 - Blog Reflections

Using your favourite metaphor, describe the most important lesson that you had learnt in your EIR journey.

The most important lesson that I have learnt in my EIR journey is to never give up. Even if I cannot find the information that I want through search engines, there are still other alternatives apart from search engines, like invisible web database. It also takes a lot of patience to look for the correct information.

To me, researching is just like painting a picture. It is going to take a lot of time, effort and patience to finish painting a nice piece of picture. Same goes for researching, it is not going to be as easy as just searching a few words on Google. It is more than just that. A good research should not just rely on Google search engine, but with meta search engine and invisible web database too.

In conclusion, I had lots of fun through this EIR journey and made many new friends too. I am also glad to have Mdm Farida as my awesome tutor. :)

EIR Practical 8 & 9 - Evaluation of Internet Resources 2&3

Activity 3 - Blog Reflections

Update your blog with magical pictures from the multimedia website and Second Life screen captures of your Dream Holiday destinations

My Dream Holiday destination is...PARIS (http://www.paris.com)

Which evaluation criteria did you use to evaluate the multimedia websites for your “Dream Holiday”? Why?

I used Coverage and Currency to evaluate my website. Coverage because I need to know many things in order to go to my dream holiday, like hotel, attractions, tours and stuff. The website has more than enough information for one to know in order to go to the place. Currency is also needed because things change over time, and if the website is not updated, it will be a disappointment to expect something from the website that does not exist in real life anymore.

Why did you choose to go to your Dream Holiday destination?

I guess it is partly because of my mum's job as a draughts woman that made me like looking at buildings and appreciate them. Paris has this eiffel tower which intrigues me, the entire structure of it. It seems like it is built solely with metal rods. I always wanted to visit european countries too, I believe it will be a new experience for me.

Compare your virtual Second Life experience with that of evaluating the multimedia websites for your Dream Holiday

For my Second Life experience, although my avatar get to go to the "real" virtual place and get really up close to the eiffel tower, but it still feels like it's virtual and unreal. Unless I get to experience it for myself and not what my avatar experiences. While evaluating multimedia websites for my dream holiday, although I get more texts than pictures, but I feel really excited about going there one day, with all the Paris landmarks and attractions!!!