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
-when are you
coming back? ;
