Xianglong
12 Nov 1989






Yuezhi
John
AuditionSEA
Ebuddy


{November 2007}
{February 2008}


Designer//ling38
Image//dexxtaa

Practical 6b -

Internet discussion forum on drug abuse :
http://www.teenhut.net/showthread.php?p=437002#post437002

I find that it is kind and meaningful to give advices to people who are in need of help. You can't help them much, but at least each and everyone's advices can do some help to awake them.


Practical 6a

Topic : Impact on Teen Drug Abuse.

Search keywords : Teenage Drug Abuse

1) http://stopteendrugaddiction.com/
Summary:
This main aim of this website is to raise awareness about the dangers of teen drug addiction. It teaches parents on how to recognize the warning signs of drug and alcohol abuse, and so that to understand the importance of early parent education to prevent their child on drug abuse. There is also parent project that targets parent on a parent-training program specially designed to guide them on how to handle out-of-control children that ages 12-17.

2) http://teens.lovetoknow.com/Teenager_Drug_Abuse
Summary:
This website talks about harmfulness of teenage drug abuse, by providing information on warning signs of drug abuse, as well as the risk factor of getting drug abuse. There is also teen drug addiction statistics and information on types of addictions, where you can learn more about what are the possible teen drug addictions there are. There are also links to other website resources on information about teens and drug addiction, warning signs and treatment options.


Summary of activiy :

It took me quite a long time to find relevant sites on the topic. Sites which i found useless usually are articles that can't be used for this project. I tried many different keywords matches and finally got me 2 satisfied ones. Evaluation of the websites is interesting and fun, that benefits myself in knowing more about the websites after i did an evaluation on each of them.


Practical 2


Topic : Discuss the impact of the Integrated Resort (IR) on Singapore’s tourism industry.

URL: http://phylis-at-work.blogspot.com/2007/11/impact-of-integrated-resort-ir-on.html
Type: Personal
Description: A blog post written by one of our student in TP who is also taking UIR in this semester. This blogger researched about the integrated resort's impact on Singapore tourism, and described his or her thoughts on the websites he or she found.

URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Resort

Type: Subject-based
Description: An encyclopedia on Singapore's plan to construct Integrated Resorts as well as their impacts on Tourism Industry and the Social.



URL: http://www.singaporeintegratedresorts.com.sg/gov/

Type: Organization
Description: A government website which provides FAQ on Singapore Integrated Resort. Very clearly explained.

URL: http://www.ips.org.sg/events/casino/papers/Winston%20Koh.pdf
Type: Organization
Description: A PDF file formatted page of a proposal on Singapore Integrated Resort accessing its economic impact.

Reflections

1. Which search facility/ies did you use?
Google Search Engine and Blogsearch Engine, Wikipedia Encyclopedia Search.


2. Write down all the keywords you had used for searching the resources. Identify those keywords that yield relevant or better search results.
Singapore Integrated Resort Tourism Industry Impact
Singapore Integrated Resort Impact


3. What are the major differences amongst the three types of websites?

Personal website is base on personal view and thoughts to a certain problem. It can be a bias remark based on one feels. Subject based website provides information to a certain issue, it can be gathered from many other sources.

Practical 4&5

Comparing search engines.

Gooogle: The information accurate, but wide range. It is still relevant and helpful for me to find the information i am searching for.

Metacrawler: Sharp range of infomation, with high relevancy. It is really helpful and gathered results by doing multiple search at once, gathered results from each different search engine.

Yahoo Directory: Compiled information by human. Limited to a high extent. I find this search engine least helpful and least relevant for my search.


Conclusion:

Metacrawler would be a better search engine, followed by google.


Topic: Leisure
Aspect: Game


Categories
Resource Name /URL
Resource Description
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Newsgroups and discussion list

http://www.gamespot.com

Game discussion area for questions and walkthrough.

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Electronic journals and magazine

http://www.playworks.com.sg/

Website of local gaming magazine Playworks.

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Multi-media source

http://www.ea.com.sg

Multi-media site that provides game videos.

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WWW site

http://www.games.com

Free site for flash game.


Hi all, this is the 2nd week of my uir lesson.

The lesson is really fun and relaxing. Today we got to share 2 favourite links of ours through our blogs~


My two favourite links are
http://www.auditionsea.com/
http://www.ebuddy.com/

I love playing online games, and my favourite online game is Audition. Audition is a famous game that has been launched in many countries such as Korea, Japan, Singapre, HongKong, Taiwan and much more. AuditionSea is the server for South-East Asian's Audition, which is hosted in Singapore's gaming company : Asiasoft. I am playing AuditionSea, thus i visit the website regularly to check for game updates.

My other favourite link is the eBuddy's website, which i visits almost everyday. eBuddy is a web and mobile messenger, which is launched through explorer browser instead of using an installed Msn program on the computer. I spend half of my day in school, eBuddy is an important tool for me to communicate with my outside school friends. Best of all, it is free for all to use!