Posting 4 : Dear students, this week we are already in week 11. I really hope that all of you are learning a lot of new skills in this course and apply them in completing all the assignments and postings in your blogs. For this week tutorial is not in our usual lab. All students are required to go to Tun Sri Lanang library during your tutorial times and do the following: Go to the Internet lab section of the library at the main entrance. Ask the librarian where is the DOA- Dissertation online and find out what it is and also find out the online databases subsribed by TSL libraries. Then you need to search for EBSCOHost,and Lisa Net. Find 2 articles related to one of the following topics from any online databases subsribed by TSL. CALL Bridging Digital Divide Women and ICT E-Learning Summarize these articles and post them as fourth posting. Happy surfing.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Sunday, March 15, 2009
:: 3rd Posting :: Mamma.com :: google scholar :: eric digest :: yahoo.com ::
Hello....
Mamma.com
Google Scholar
Eric Digest
Mamma.com
Mamma.com is a metasearch engine owned by Copernic Inc. that helps in finding information from directories, and deep content sites. It properly formats the words and helps in finding the things that we want to know with specific information. Moreover, Mamma.com compiles their results in a virtual database, eliminates duplicates, and displays them in a uniform manner according to compatibility of the information that we want to seek.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar helps in finding information that involved scholary literature. In addition, through this site we can find information like; peer-reviewed papers, thesis, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and also other scholary organizations. Google Scholar features; Search which diverse sources from one convenient place, Find papers, abstracts and citations, Locate the complete paper through your library or on the web and Learn about key papers in any area of research.
Eric Digest
Eric Digest helps improviding an access towards the ERIC Digests (education articles) produced by the former ERIC Clearinghouse system. This site provided :-
- short reports (1,000 - 1,500 words) on topics of prime current interest in education. There are a large variety of topics covered including teaching, learning, libraries, charter schools, special education, higher education, home schooling, and many more.
- targeted specifically for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and other practitioners, but generally useful to the broad educational community.
- designed to provide an overview of information on a given topic, plus references to items providing more detailed information.
- produced by the former 16 subject-specialized ERIC Clearinghouses, and reviewed by experts and content specialists in the field.
- funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), of the U.S. Department of Education (ED).
- The full-text ERIC Digest database contains over 3000 Digests with the latest updates being added to this site in July 2005.
Yahoo.com
Yahoo.com helps in providing images, videos site, shopping site, news and research database. Moreover, it also provide site like news, music, movies, map, and business site. This site function as same like google.com in helping finding information but it have it's own site which combine all links to all site that we want to visit besides its search engine.
Differences
The differences between all of the is every search engine has their own way in helping the user in finding what they want. For yahoo.com and and Mamma.om, both helping the user in finding all sort of information from document, pictures to news. As for Google Scholar and Eric Digest, it helping the user in finding specific information in what the user want to find. Google Scholar helps in finding information about literature whereas Eric Digest is a site that goods for education field in finding information about helping teachers to teach in the class.
Similarities
The similarities between all of the search engine are they help the user in finding what they want and helping in an easy way to locate certain information without needing to browse through the internet for hours just to find specific information about something. Google Scholar and Eric Digest have similarities in form of both helping in finding a certain information about literature world and specific information for educational method.
Yahoo.com helps in providing images, videos site, shopping site, news and research database. Moreover, it also provide site like news, music, movies, map, and business site. This site function as same like google.com in helping finding information but it have it's own site which combine all links to all site that we want to visit besides its search engine.
Differences
The differences between all of the is every search engine has their own way in helping the user in finding what they want. For yahoo.com and and Mamma.om, both helping the user in finding all sort of information from document, pictures to news. As for Google Scholar and Eric Digest, it helping the user in finding specific information in what the user want to find. Google Scholar helps in finding information about literature whereas Eric Digest is a site that goods for education field in finding information about helping teachers to teach in the class.
Similarities
The similarities between all of the search engine are they help the user in finding what they want and helping in an easy way to locate certain information without needing to browse through the internet for hours just to find specific information about something. Google Scholar and Eric Digest have similarities in form of both helping in finding a certain information about literature world and specific information for educational method.
About Third Posting
Posting 3 : Dear students We really hope that your blog is up and running. For the third posting you need to write about the search engine. Write briefly each of these and discuss the differences and similarities. Mamma.com; google scholar; eric digest and yahoo.com. Happy surfing and blogging. Make sure this week you will add in in your blog your picture and also audio/video files.
http://www.spin.ukm.my/Student/Courses/coursecontent/mynav/MainFrameSet.php
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
:: 2nd Posting :: Blogging can assist language learners to improve and enhance their writing skill ::
In improving our writing skill, we need to improve our writing skill. In assisting language learners, writing skill they would think critically while writing on blogs. Their way of thinking involved in how to create an interesting topic to discuss in their blog, how to make it lively, how to make the readers would be trill in reading more about whats contain in the blog and the most important thing is the writing skill itself.
Eventhough writing seems out of date to certain teenagers, writing bring a lot of advantages in terms of improving the writing skills and grammar building.
Blogging appears to be helping teens become more productive writers. This is a promising finding that has important implications for schools. A survey recently conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project explored the links between the formal writing that teens do for school and the informal, electronic communication they exchange through email and text messaging.
The report also confirms my findings about the ambiguity in computer usage at home and at school. Educators seem perplexed when it comes to assigning blogging assignments because many students do not have computers at home. But computer ownership increases daily as prices go down and the need or want of these machines rises. Teens who use a computer at home for their non-school writing believe computers have a greater impact on the amount of writing they produce than on the overall quality of their writing.
Eventhough writing seems out of date to certain teenagers, writing bring a lot of advantages in terms of improving the writing skills and grammar building.
Blogging appears to be helping teens become more productive writers. This is a promising finding that has important implications for schools. A survey recently conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project explored the links between the formal writing that teens do for school and the informal, electronic communication they exchange through email and text messaging.
The report also confirms my findings about the ambiguity in computer usage at home and at school. Educators seem perplexed when it comes to assigning blogging assignments because many students do not have computers at home. But computer ownership increases daily as prices go down and the need or want of these machines rises. Teens who use a computer at home for their non-school writing believe computers have a greater impact on the amount of writing they produce than on the overall quality of their writing.
http://suptfelix.blogspot.com/2008/05/teen-writing-skills-improve-with.html
Other blog that I found which discuss Cultivate Your Writing Skills to Improve Your Blog, it enhance in writing skill.
Blogging is about communicating first and foremost, and to get started communicating you only need to get your idea across.
On the other hand, if you want to be remembered, in part you need to be distinctive. You need to better than every other mediocre writer with good ideas. You need to find your own voice. And some of the great writing advice you can get will help you find yourself - cutting out the excess and leaving the worthy.
Blogging is about communicating first and foremost, and to get started communicating you only need to get your idea across.
On the other hand, if you want to be remembered, in part you need to be distinctive. You need to better than every other mediocre writer with good ideas. You need to find your own voice. And some of the great writing advice you can get will help you find yourself - cutting out the excess and leaving the worthy.
I think the best way of taking advantage of your blogging schedule to improve your writing skills, is to write your post and then edit it. Writing on it’s own, won’t improve your skills, it will only display them as they are. Improving your writing skills, I think, means improving your editing and rewriting skills. Once the ideas are in place, improving and rewriting your language to better communicate those ideas just takes practice.
2nd Post
Posting 2: Discuss how blogging can assist language learners to improve and enhance their writing skill. You need to add in articles or list url and links related to blogging and share blogs that you enjoy reading. Articles on blogging is also in spin. Read and understand them. Happy blogging
Friday, March 6, 2009
:: 1st Posting :: Reading for Information ::
Mental Illness
Reading for Information. For this 1st blog post, I want to talk about what is Mental Illness. Moreover, I’m one of many people who love to find many topics to increase my knowledge about things that not usually involved in my subject of study. When we read, it does not matter if it accidental reading or for finding information, it depends on the person themselves to find what they want in the internet.
People might know that mental illness causes by that person mental state that is not stable at that time or having personal problem. However, causes of mental illness also cause by physical state. From what I’ve learn in this article, mental illness mean ‘medical conditions that disrupt a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others, and daily functioning’. It shows that a person medical conditions also effects from their way of thinking, feeling, mood and the most important thing is daily behaviour.
Mental illness can effect a person in any age, race, region or income. The depression that person feel not only felt to a person who have a difficult life but also a person who have everything from healthy body to prosperous life. The types of mental illness that I’ve learn from reading this article are major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and borderline personality disorder. Although people might say that mental illness taking a long time to recover, but as long as it can be cure, there’s hope, right?
These articles also state some important facts about mental illness and how to recover from it. For examples, the fact that mental illnesses usually strike individuals in the prime of their lives, often during adolescence and young adulthood. Moreover, all ages are susceptible, but the young and the old are especially vulnerable. It shows that during young and old age, the consequences of getting mental illness is bigger that during mature age.
The method to cure mental illness also being state in this article, and I have more knowledge in how to overcome with a person who in mental illness problem. However, the best method to cure mental illness is early identification and treatment is of vital importance; and by ensuring access to the treatment and recovery supports that are proven effective. Recovery from Mental Illness is accelerated and the further harm related to the course of illness is minimized if we take precaution about this problem seriously.
Finally, the exercise that could be form from this article is basically involved in classified the meaning of Mental Illness, to whom the Mental Illness would effect, types of Mental Illness, and facts about Mental Illness.
That's it for now..please enjoy the video that's involved Mental Illness...
People might know that mental illness causes by that person mental state that is not stable at that time or having personal problem. However, causes of mental illness also cause by physical state. From what I’ve learn in this article, mental illness mean ‘medical conditions that disrupt a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others, and daily functioning’. It shows that a person medical conditions also effects from their way of thinking, feeling, mood and the most important thing is daily behaviour.
Mental illness can effect a person in any age, race, region or income. The depression that person feel not only felt to a person who have a difficult life but also a person who have everything from healthy body to prosperous life. The types of mental illness that I’ve learn from reading this article are major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and borderline personality disorder. Although people might say that mental illness taking a long time to recover, but as long as it can be cure, there’s hope, right?
These articles also state some important facts about mental illness and how to recover from it. For examples, the fact that mental illnesses usually strike individuals in the prime of their lives, often during adolescence and young adulthood. Moreover, all ages are susceptible, but the young and the old are especially vulnerable. It shows that during young and old age, the consequences of getting mental illness is bigger that during mature age.
The method to cure mental illness also being state in this article, and I have more knowledge in how to overcome with a person who in mental illness problem. However, the best method to cure mental illness is early identification and treatment is of vital importance; and by ensuring access to the treatment and recovery supports that are proven effective. Recovery from Mental Illness is accelerated and the further harm related to the course of illness is minimized if we take precaution about this problem seriously.
Finally, the exercise that could be form from this article is basically involved in classified the meaning of Mental Illness, to whom the Mental Illness would effect, types of Mental Illness, and facts about Mental Illness.
That's it for now..please enjoy the video that's involved Mental Illness...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
1st online assignment
Introduction:
First posting blogs:
-will be evaluated is computerized reading Search in the internet information about computerized reading
-refer to Readings in Online Language Learning and Teaching chapter 7 and chapter 8 refer to Online Teaching and Learning in ELT
-need to read the page 7-20 and page 46-56
-allowed to copy and paste online texts from any website Task
- Reading Find one example of online text that you can use to explain one of these types of reading
-browse through any reading websites cut and paste the text but must make sure that include the URL to check and the reference
-Find a sample of : Reading for pleasure OR Reading for information OR Reading for task completion OR Reading for instruction OR Incidental reading
-Explain The activities and the reading text.
First posting blogs:
-will be evaluated is computerized reading Search in the internet information about computerized reading
-refer to Readings in Online Language Learning and Teaching chapter 7 and chapter 8 refer to Online Teaching and Learning in ELT
-need to read the page 7-20 and page 46-56
-allowed to copy and paste online texts from any website Task
- Reading Find one example of online text that you can use to explain one of these types of reading
-browse through any reading websites cut and paste the text but must make sure that include the URL to check and the reference
-Find a sample of : Reading for pleasure OR Reading for information OR Reading for task completion OR Reading for instruction OR Incidental reading
-Explain The activities and the reading text.
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