Monday, June 2, 2008

Practical 9

Today we have done the evaluation of what we have done for subject UIR. The most important thing that I have done for UIR is the searching techniques. Now I know how to search for a particular information acuurately and effectively.

Friday, May 30, 2008

Dream holiday.


My dream holiday, I would like to visit Newzealand. Its such good country. The culture there is entirely different from our culture. I always had a passion to know about other people culture, thier life style etc.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

practical 8

Today we asked to vbisit a website. The url was http://www.talkingcock.com/. Using the criteria for evaluating the website we comment whether this site is sustainable or not. And we divided ito 4 groups of 6 students by assuming some roles. The roles were Singapore prime minister, A singaporean. Then one representative from each group commented on this site as they decorating those assumed position.

Shabab Mk.

prqactical 7

Today we have created a wikispace. We created one wiki group under our practical group. We joined as members of that group. After that we updated the wiki space with our findingds on our topic. Thats all we have done for this practical ...

Shabab Mk.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

If I had $500

If I ahd $500, I would have bought a good cell phone. The cell phone must be nice looking with all the facilities like 3G, bluetooth, WAP etc. I m crazy for new cell phones in the market.



Shabab Mk.
Practical 6

In this lab we have evaluated the internet resource. We all selected one resource and evaluated under many criteria. My resource url is http://www.unodc.org/youthnet/index.html. Then we evaluated the site under many criteria like purpose, coverage, authority, access, currency, accessibility, usability etc.


Shabab Mk.
Practical 4 &5


We are asked to compare different sources to retrieve information.
1. WWW websites(Search engines)
2. Subject directory
3. Meta search engines


Search Engine

I have used google as the search sengine to retrieve information on my topic. The phrase I have used was "(Discuss*) AND (Drug* OR Medicine*) AND (Abuse* OR Mistreatment* OR violence *) AND (Youth* OR Adolescence *)"

Subject directory

I have used Yahoo subject directory to search for information by using the same phrase as the keyword.

Metasearch Engines

I have metacrawler as a meta search engine by using the phrase as the keyword.

Shabab Mk.