Tuesday, November 28, 2006
The forum which I would be posting my questions on:
http://www.chinesemusicblog.com/forum/index.php
Direct Link:
http://www.chinesemusicblog.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=22171#p22171
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Practical Worksheet 4 & 5 (Weeks 5 & 6)
Introduction to Internet Resources: Internet Search Facilities 1 & 2
Type of Search facility:
Search Engine [Google]
Keywords: Music.....Trends.....Teenagers
Purpose: Information
The Web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music
Hits: 1,130,000
Meta Search Engine [Mamma]
Keywords: Music.....Trends.....Teenagers
Purpose: News
The Web: https://www.elca.org/lutheranpartners/archives/teenmusc.html
Hits: 36
Search Engine [Yahoo]
Keywords: Music.....Trends.....Teenagers
Purpose: Information
The Web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_trends_in_music_(1950-1959)
Hits: 673,000
Reflections on Comparison and Evaluation on search effectiveness
Compare the search results. Identify 2 characteristics that make all 3 search facilities similar or different from one another.
Results of total number of websites found (however, the results of the subject directory and search engine is really a huge amount)
They have an advanced search option which allows users to perform a more specific search.
All three search engines are easy to use and very user friendly.
Do you find any strength/weakness of each of them, in terms of search capability?
Search engine: Google
Weakness
-A lot of irrelevant results
E.g. Results contain a webpage from a site which promotes a drug-free environment
Strengths
-Many variety of results from different sources:
e.g. Definitions of search topic or Forums which discuss the topic
Meta Search engine: Mamma
Weakness
-The results are not specific enough
Strengths
-Smaller range of results, easier to review and explore
- options to search for different sources
Subject directory: Yahoo
Weakness
-A wide range of results (in which there maybe some which are irrelevant to the topic or unhelpful websites)
Strengths
-More specific to the topic which is being researched on (advanced search option)
- provides the size of each individual webpage
Overall, which search facility best meet your searching needs? Why?
The Meta search engine would be quite useful as it provides a smaller range of results rather than a huge amount of results like the search engine or the subject directory, and most of the websites from the results are either irrelevant or useless for my searching needs.
Comment whether your research topic has any co-relation to the purposes of the resources retrieved.
My research topic has some co-relation to the purposes of the resources retrieved. To know more about the latest trends in music, forums discussing about the latest trends of music would be very helpful. Also, news articles reporting about the latest news or statistics would benefit my search process. The information websites like wikipedia (an online encyclopedia) would help me understand the definitions of certain technical terms which I do not understand.
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Sunday, November 12, 2006
Practical Worksheet 2 (Week 3)
Introduction to Internet Resources: Categories of Internet Resources 2
Activity 1
Topic : Discuss the latest trends in the music industry for teenagers
Activity 2
Website 1 : (Organizational WWW sites)
[ http://www.idadesal.org/ ]
Website for the International Desalination Association. Provide news about the latest news about water desalination and desalination technology
Website 2 : (Organizational WWW sites)
[ http://www.ssabuddhist.org/ ]
Website for the Singapore Soka Association which is a religious organization that practices the teachings of Nichiren Daishonin
Website 3 : (Personal WWW sites)
[ http://www.globality.org/Mayday/MaydayBlueMain.html ]
Personal website about thoughts about the author’s favorite music
Website 4 : (Subject-based WWW sites)
[ http://www.hanzismatter.com/ ]
A website which is dedicated to the misuse of Chinese character by western culture
Discussion Forum/newsgroup related to your research topic
Discussion Forum/newsgroup related to your research topic:
[ http://www.chinesemusicblog.com/forum/index.php ]
A forum which host different discussions about different languages of music, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and many more
Reflections on your searching activity
1. Which search facility/ies did you use?
- Google and Yahoo
2. Write down all the keywords you had used for searching the resources. Identify those keywords that yield relevant or better search results.
- Websites
- Associations
- Religion
- Music
- Personal
3. What are the major differences amongst the three types of websites?
- The organization website would contain more information and be updated more often as there would be a team of people maintain the website but the personal website would not be updated so much often
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Sunday, November 05, 2006
Practical Worksheet 1 (Week 2)
Introduction to Internet Resources: Categories of Internet Resources
Topic: Music
Aspect: Popular music
3. Search the Internet for one example of the resources listed on your chosen aspect:
Newsgroups and discussion list:
[ http://forum.maydaymayday.net ]
Forum for mayday, a popular Chinese band
Electronic journals and magazine:
[ http://www.rollingstone.com/ ]
News on latest albums released, music reviews and the editor’s pick on the music industry
Multi-media source:
[ http://www.imayday.com
Site which contains latest news, clips, videos, wallpapers available for downloads
Blogs & Wiki:
[ http://www.wretch.cc/blog/fanwenshan ]
Blog of famous lyricist Fang Wen Shang who has penned award winning songs by Jay Chou
5. Compare your findings with your partner. Did you find the same/similar resource? If not, how different are these from yours?
My partner’s work are mostly based on websites which promote English music whereas mine is more about the Chinese music.
We found the same website for the Electronic journals and magazine.
6. How did you decide on the resources for the different types? Are your reasons similar for all? Are they the similar to your partner?
By referring to the lectures slides given in OLE, we can easily differentiate which websites to use.
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006
TEST
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