My Dream Holiday

If I were given a virtual budget to go to my dream holiday destination, it will definitely be Anfield in England, which is the home ground of Liverpool F.C, I would be very happy to be able to visit the stadium to see how it looks like and watch them play matches.

One multimedia websites (tourism / travel related ones) that showcase the places of my Dream Holiday is http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/history/tour-and-museum. Once I visited this website, it shows what this football club had achieve since when it was founded, they had won 18 titles and 5 European cups.

I will use Accessibility and Authority to evaluate the website. When I clicked on the contact us tab, I can select the type of enquiry and then ask a question online if I have any doubts. I also can use Live chat to contact the team. Therefore the author can be contacted easily. Next, as I would like to visit the stadium, it will be better if I can get some images of the place I am visiting. From the website, they did show some images of the places we will be vising around the stadium such as the players dressing room. We also can enjoy something to eat or drink in boot room sports cafe.

Below are some pictures I found from the internet:

In Second life, our groups had decided to go to Eiffel Tower in Paris.

In Virtual life experience, we get to see how the places are like, I think its very exciting to use my character walking around in the virtual world as I had not been to Paris before so I can get a rough idea how the environment are like over there, while through the multimedia website, we can actually see the actual images of the places but we do not get virtual experience like using a character to walk around the place in the virtual world.

Some image I got from second life of the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the evironment:

Comments on my classmate Wahab's blog:

Wahab's blog looks very simple with little picture but i realised that he expressed words in a fun way which makes it interesting for readers to read. He got a cool heading on his blog which is 'THE AWESOMEMEST GUY IN THE CLASS'. I think that by looking and reading his blog, we can know what kind of person Wahab is.

1. Do you think it is more effective to search the invisible web (databases) than using search
engines, meta-search or subject directories? Why?

Yes, I think that invisible web is more effective than using other search engine as from what I have learnt, they provides accurate and reliable resources, as well as up-to-date information. So I think user will find it very easy to find relevant resources they need in a short time. They contain articles, abstracts and citations, census data, and patents. Also search engine do not index information stored in the databases. General purpose search engine often cannot acccess data in invisible web database.They also support boolean operators just like Google, phrase and proximity searches. Lastly they allow limition to improve out search results and allow truncation.

2. Name one database which you will use for your research topic. Why?

One database I will use is Global Issues in Context under Reports and Statistics as under the description of this database, it states use GIC for insights and information on issues such as science and technology, which is the closest to my research topic so I chose to take a look into this database. In the database, I can choose to type and search or browse an issue or topic. I chose to type and search as it save me time looking and clicking. After I hit enter in the search, the results are categorised in Global Viewpoints, News, Magazines, Academic Journals and Reference. 2 relevant resources I found are:

1. http://ezproxy.tp.edu.sg:2296/gic/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&sort=Relevance&prodId=GIC&tabID=T001&subjectParam=Locale%252528en%25252C%25252C%252529%25253AFQE%25253D%252528su%25252CNone%25252C15%252529computer%252Bcrimes%252524%257E%2529_2&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchId=R3&displaySubject=&searchType=&currentPosition=2&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28SU%2CNone%2C17%29%22computer+crimes%22%24&subjectAction=VIEW_TOPIC_TREE&inPS=true&userGroupName=sgtp&sgCurrentPosition=0&docId=CX3403000048&contentSet=EBKS&docId=CX3403000048&docType=EBKS

2. http://ezproxy.tp.edu.sg:2296/gic/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&sort=DateDescend&docType=EBKS&tabID=T001&prodId=GIC&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchId=R4&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=1&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2CUS%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28PI%2CNone%2C5%29G1462%24&inPS=true&userGroupName=sgtp&docId=CX3448200018&contentSet=EBKS&docId=CX3448200018&docType=EBKS


3. Name ONE more database which you will use for your course. How will you use this database for your course?

As I am from Diploma in Media and Communication Technology, I will need resources such as multimedia and technology related stuff. I can find all the information from Global Issues in Context. Under the browse issue or topic, I can find related topics to my course such as Digital Communications and Digital Systems and Softwares. I can use this database to help me in my research of digital devices for my current assignment this term.