Blog Reflections

Briefly reflect on lessons learnt from this practical via your EIR blog (and twitter):

a. What benefits do you get when using different search facilities to search for resources related to your topic?

Different search facilities will come out with different results an with many different results, there will be many irrelevant results for the user to go through. Sometimes using many search facilities will results in information overflow. As some information might not be true.

b. How do you feel about using site feeds in your blog?

I don't think it is a good idea as site feeds related to my topic is not relevant and the results are few.

c. What do you like best about collaborating on Wiki with other students who share similar research topic as you?

Wiki is a good way to communicate and share information with students with the same similar research topic. It lets students post whatever they find on the web and it can edited easily. Students can also leave comments to tell the students about what they feel and everything.

Activity 4 - Blog Reflections

Google is a very useful search engine and that i often use it to search for my information and do research. Google is a well known search engine. Even though Google gives a wide and mass results to the search, most of the information are not relevant and are not important. This wastes users time to search slowly one by one at the results to gather the information that they want.

Google Scholar was another search engine that I had found out, it allows the user to search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

Participating in discussion forums is very useful to the research that we want to get ,as the results there are just comments from other people.

Citation and bibliography are used to credit our source(s), which is very important as we should always give credit to where the information comes from and from which author.