Practical worksheet 8&9 (Second life and multimedia website Dream holiday)

I chose Japan as my dream destination because I have always wanted to go there as it is my favourite country and my first choice of going overseas. The people there are always respecting each other and displaying have good manners wherever they go.

Japan has a lot of different cites and places, providing an endless number of sites to exploring. There is a great variety of foods and products produced for different prefectures in Japan. There are tons of beautiful sceneries such as Mount Fuji, sakura trees and oceans.

In Japan, there are different types of cultures such as the Japanese tea ceremony,   dialects, festivals and much more. 

In Japan, there is a group of people known as otakus. These people are hardcore fans of animes, manga, cosplay, and games. An event is held annually for fans of anime and manga. If you are a tourist, this should be placed top of your ‘must see’ list for you can find people young and old, dressed up as their favourite characters from animes, games and manga. This has become a growing trend and culture among the youngsters in Japan.

Multimedia Website

I chose http://www.jnto.org.sg/ as my multimedia website because it has a lot of text, audios, still images, animation, videos, and there’s interactivity in the website. It is done by the Japan National Tourism Organization Singapore Representative Office. This means the information provided by the website is accurate and safe.

I like this website because the information is updated every time. It also has maps of towns, cities, information on transportation, attractions, essential, accommodation and other in Japan. The multimedia website has shown me a lot of videos in Japan. It also has a lot of websites linked to this website. I like the videos because the background of the video is the place where I want to visit. I feel this website is easyto access and a great source of information that is needed for the holiday trip.

Second life

Japan chubu

This here is one of the scenic sports in chubu, Japan that looks out to the Pacific Ocean.

Club Josephina

The club has a picturesque view of the sec. It has platform rooms where you can relax and party in.

Japan Dream Kenjin
 This picture is taken from a viewing point on the island. You can see the layout of the town before you.

Tempura Island

This island has an exotic feel to it. If such a place exists, it will make one feel like they have been transported to another world.

Kinkaku -ji Garden is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. It also is the popular name of Rokuon-ji, or "Temple of the Deer Park." It is a beautiful place has flower, tree and other.

The city basking in the evening lights.

Pontocho is the place where there has a lot of shop in the street.  I like this place because some of the shops in the place where I want to visit in my holiday. At the below:





     

 

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

In Second Life, I can go to any country for my holiday trip for free. In Second Life, I can visit all the places in Japan and it is fun. I like the kinkaku-ji Garden brcause it is a beautiful place. I prefer Second Life to a multimedia website as it is a lot more fun.



Reflections 2 ( Tutorial Worksheet 3&4 )

Tutorial Worksheet 3&4

Twitter is very easy to navigate and update, links to other website and promote anything. It is user friendly and also can expand ypur circle of friends. We can not only check to see what our friends or relatives are doing, we can also express our own status and opinions too.

It has pure communication tools, rapid responsiveness which is used for chatting with our friends and is useful when we are using our computers outside or overseas.

Twitter also has its disadvantage as it has a limited functionality which find people, send messages and direct replies.

Facebook is also another social networking site similar to twitter but Facebook has lots of functions compared to twitter. But facebook is difficult to navigate and updates. Unlike twitter communication tool, facebook was responds showly unless you stay logged on continuously.

Facebook also can quicky grasp the value of connection to your friends, family and contacts. It can easily find people, email, instant messaging and image/video sharing to your friends/family.

Twitter should including games as it also can be part of entrainment for people using twitter. They should include search functions. They can also use twitter as a search engine which will be more useful for them if they are trying to search something. Besides search tools, they can add forums of different categories such as popular topics which can let all people see or participate.

Practical Worksheet 6  

In this lesson, I have learnt how to use TP’s library's website to find information. The databases is similar to search engines, meta-search or subject directories. This databases can only be used by student and stuffs of TP only. TP’s Digital Library has divided in to different databases for newspaper article, journal article, book and other small databases.

I feel that the TP’s Digital Library is useful for me to find exam paper from a few years ago and to search information for my homework and others.

EBSCOhost databases

 

The search does give a lot of different results as I expected, some links contain different information and it allows you to read it in adobe reader and also allows you to save it to your folders. It also shows you the name of the websites creator and there are details on him or her.

On the right side of the webpage there are related images. On the left side of the webpage shows the number of amount of information generated by EBSCOhost databases (amount is 23816) and there are some funtions to chose to sefine search.

It also support full Boolean like NOT, AND, OR and some options for user to choose in this database. It has a lot of function like basic search, advanced search, visual search, search history and others.  

On the top bar, there are some function like subjects, new search, publications, images and other for user and others. You can choose different languages for the foreigners to use their own mother tongue to search for information. This database has many different EBSCOhost databases and provides subjects for your course like art & architecture, business, communication, computer science design, education, engineering, film, food science, medical science, regional news, tourism, veterinary science.

 Newslink databases

a.    Do you think it is more effective to search the invisible web (databases) than using search engines, meta-search or subject directories? Why?

No because it has less information in the invisible a web compare to search engines, meta-search or subject directories. The search engines, meta-search or subject directories have information from all over the country. It can be used by the public but the invisible web only use for some of the people.

b.    Name ONE database which you will use for your research topic. Why?

I will use the EBSCOhost databases because it has a lot of functions to reduce search result and support full Boolean in my research topic. It is easy for me to use the function and easy to find information compared to other databases.

c.    Name ONE more database which you will use for your course. How will you use this database for your course?

I will use EBSCOhost databases and Newslink databases for my course. I will use it to search information for my project, assignment and others. Newslink databases help me to find information in newspaper articles and images. EBSCOhost databases help me to find information in journal articles and also find information under the subject for my course.