Practical 3: E-learning

Practical 3 is part of E-learning. No need to attend class physically.

First of all, the following is the my identification of four of the resources that I found online during Practical 1 and 2.

Resource 1: BBC Online
Purpose of resource: News
Reasons:
It provides information about the risks of personal information being stolen from popular social network website Facebook. It is an article written by Spencer Kelly as part of the BBC’s weekly technology programme, Click. The website is developed and maintained by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), a major broadcast news company. It also provides facts and possible ways of personal information being stolen from Facebook. It educates the user about the danger of putting too much personal data and information on Facebook which can be stole by hackers to be used for data mining.

Resource 2: Personal Blog
Purpose of resource: Personal
Reasons:
The above website is a personal blog written by a single mother from US. It is a personal website because the author of the website shares her experiences of being a single mother, her thoughts and creating an internet social network and online community to reach out to other single moms and single dads.

Resource 3: Online Journal
Purpose of resource: Information
Reasons:
The website a web-based, peer-reviewed scholarly journal. It is broadly interdisciplinary, publishing work by scholars in communication, business, education, political science, sociology, media studies, information science, and other disciplines. This particular journal article provides insight description and information about the features of social network sites, and discussion about key changes and developments.

Resource 4: Wikipedia article
Purpose of resource: Information
Reasons:
Wikipedia is a popular Web 2.0 free content encyclopedia website. There are over 2.3 millions articles in English, all of which were written and contributed by netizens all over the world. Using different kinds of media such as photos, videos, quotes, facts and figures, maps, and links to related websites, Wikipedia provides comprehensive information on wide variety of interesting topics ranging from coffee to Cape Town to corals.

Secondly, I posted my views on how the Internet impacts my academic student life and comments about advocacy websites on the discussion forum.

What I have learnt
I have learnt about different types of websites and purpose of them. By reading the lecture notes, I knew that the following are the purposes of websites:

1. Information
2. Advocacy
3. Business/marketing
4. News
5. Personal
6. Entertainment

After doing my reflections on Practical 3, I going to post a photo taken using disposable film camera, titled "Reflection".