Tutorial 3 and 4

Wow, we had a fun lesson today!

So how has twitter enhanced my EIR learning? Well, I think that it has given me a broader experience on how to use the web to communicate between my fellow classmates. In a way, I have found out that using twitter has been able to ask my EIR classmates and teachers about schoolwork. Granted, I had no idea how it worked, but I managed. Unlike Blogspot, twitter seems much faster. But both still require that people be online to reply. I think I would have to compare my EIR learning to a science experiment. There are many processes involved, and it can sometimes be maddeningly complex, but after all your hard work, you finally get something good in the end.

I think by using twitter and blogspot, I maight be able to confer with others and get to know more from them. I can ask for any good links to a website containing a lot of information or even go to other blogs that contain information as well.

My Dream Holiday

So we supposed to do a dream holiday thing today? Hmm, what to do ah? My dream holiday. Okay, well, I have an idea of my dream holiday, and that is to go to is the Northern territory of Rome!! I know it isn't that specific, but in this post, I shall explain why!

But I also have to answer some questions too, and they are:
a.Update your blog with magical pictures of your Dream Holiday destinations
b.Which evaluation criteria did you used to evaluate the multimedia websites for your dream holiday? Why?
c.Why did you choose to go to your Dream Holiday destination.


So why would I like to go to Rome? Of all countries, why this? Well...

First off, I have never been there, so no dount I would be quite interested in visiting. Also, some of my family members have gone there as well and told me all about it. I just want to go and see it for myself. This is why Rome is a dream vacation destination for me!

So what is there to do in Rome?? Well, the real thing that piques my interest is Rome's architecture.

The Coliseum:
Generally, when people mention Rome, the first thing that comes to mind is the Coliseum. It was supposedly where in the ancient times, gladiators fought to win the appeal of the Romans. Although the brutal battles have long been forgotten, the structure still remains. I'd really love to go and see what is inside!

The Coliseum

Vatican City:

I'm catholic, so I guess I'd like to go and catch a glimpse of this place. Especially St. Peter's cathedral! That is where the pope goes to celebrate the eucharist! I'd really love to see it!

St. Peter's cathedral

St. Peter's square

There are probably more things to see in Rome. For instance, I didn't know they had a fotress to protect the Pope!
















Vatican Fotress

Other things that caught my eye were fountains such as this one down here. What did they call it? The Trevi fountain I think.

Trevi fountain







Well, Rome does look like a cool holiday destination doesn't it? Maybe I'll ask my parents to plan a vacation there one day. And I heard they've got good food there too!


The website I had used for this is http://romeitaly.ca/ and what i used to evaluate this site was:

Purpose:
I found that the site fulfilled its purpose to a moderate extent as it was meant to help tourists understand what would await them if they were to travel to Rome. However, it might not do good for those who would like to know about culture and even food.


Coverage:
The website had a good coverage of the sights and attractions of the city. however, I find that the coverage is not that good as it does not show the full details about the italian city. Things like food and shopping places are not shown. However, I might admit that the information could be sufficient for the regular tourist who'd be content with the attractions. In my opinion, the website contains an average information level.


Accessibility:
The site is quite accessible as anyone can go in and check. I beleive it is a very accessible website for any tourist.


Presentation and Arrangement:
The site is well arranged and presented as the different pictures are placed under certain categories. This allowed me to be able to look for pictures of interesting attractions as I just had to find the category I was looking for and search for what I needed.


Usability:
The site is well usable as there were many links to subjects of interest. For example, there were links to view pictures and information for the Vatican city or the coliseum. All in all, it was easy to navigate this website.


Overall, I think this website ranks as average.

Practical 7

Well, I suppose I'll answer the practical 7 questions.

Question 1:
The best criteria I could use was Coverage. This is because in a website like STOMP, there will be many people commenting on all the different stories in the website and even adding their own sides such as pictures etc. Thus, the best way to evaluate it in my opinion was to base it on the content. In my view, the information in STOMP may not be completely reliable as the information is by many citizens in Singapore. Also, we are not sure about the whole picture of the story. Thus, some comments might even be exaggerated. Thus, in this practical, I have learned that sometimes we need to look at the context of the website and who are the ones participating in the citizen journalism so as to make a stand on its reliability.

Question 2:
Sharing my views in the wiki was a way I could get to let everyone know what sort of stand I took to citizen journalism. I feel that when it comes to citizen journalism, there should be a respect of privacy and for others and relevent information to be posted. i feel that I could open myslef better in the wiki.