Day 1 Journal

Hi! Everyone, I am Weihon and I am very new to blogging. As this is my very first blog, I would like to take this opportunity to wish a happy new year to everyone in my class and not forget the lecturer.

The subject i am taking in this block is called Effective Internet Research (EIR). Before the lesson start, a warm ice breaking sessions was introduced by all of us, taking note of everyone names, hobbies and interests.

And so, the day started out with an introduction to Internet resources. we were being exposed to different types of websites and search engines. And being taught of judging informations shown in the website. Reliable or not? How reliable it was? How do we ensure this website is reliable.

Off course the most importantly is the different types of internet resources. And also the different areas where we got our informations from. For example, wiki, forums, blogs and worldwideweb.

The lecturers even explain to us how internets was founded.... Quite interesting. Something related to war and tons of computer link or wired together to pass and share informations around. Not to forget the term "Podcasting". Many of us could not answer what does this term means as this question might come out in the class test soon. According to the lecturer notes, podcasting is a method of producing self-contained audio miniprograms that are distributed over the internet.

In fact, not only podcasting, We had to learn how worldwideweb come by and many more. THis is done in discussion with my group mates.

As this is the first day, many things needs to be done as we are still blunt from being a true blue internet researcher. And lots of discussions with my group mates. Post some of a few discussions here.