Last week is the first week of EIR and other subjects after the term break. I believe many of us had not 100% felt like study, and still been distracted by many things. Portfolio part 1 was submitted during the class, and I really felt relaxed as if I just put down a 1000kg burdon, because as a foreign student, I have never wrote or typed so many English words before. Hope I can have a good score on that.
Teacher went through the Lecture note 7 with us. And we had started Topic 2: Evaluation of Internet Resources. I learnt the 9 Evaluation Criteria of this which are : purpose, coverage, authority, accuracy, currency, accessibility, Presentation and Arrangement, usability and Overall Quality. Citizen Journalism was another new word for me. It is a concept of people conrtibute information and commentary about new events every day.
We did a group activity of using the evaluation criteria to evaluate a the Stomp.com.sg website. That was also the first group activity in EIR. We formed a 5-people group, and the funny thing is that 4 of us are foreigners and only 1 Singaporean. I chose purpose, coverage, accuracy and currency as my criteria to evaluate the website. The purpose of the website is to post the new funny events to let people know, some people posted things and showed off themselves and some people were just to express their own opinions on a specific issue. Stomp covered things from Singapore mostly and few globle news. As I mentioned above, many of the post were the stompers' own opinions, so the information may not be accurate. The post on Stomp are definitely current because almost every 30 minutes or even less time period, there are new posts by the stompers.
My research topic is Development of Renewable Energy Resources in The World. If I was to create my own version of "Stomp", I will only allow the registered members to post on the website, and I will filter the articles or photos or videos because renewable energy is considered quite serious topic. Things that members posted should be linked to renewable energy, not everything. Of course, if the posts are funny but is related to the topic, that will be better.
