Pratical 1 & 2

Pratical 1

Today, I have learned more things from the internet. 2dae, elenda and I pair up and identify one topic that we would like to know more about. As both of us like movies, we decided to do research on HorroR Movie.

We do the search by using the following resources.
· Newsgroups and discussion list
· Electronic journal and magazine
· Multi-media source
· WWW site

Newsgroups and discussion list
http://www.movieforums.org/currently-playing/827-halloween-2007-a.html

It shares with us how they think of the movie after they have watched them and gives us idea as to whether it is worth watching.

Electronic journals and magazine
http://www.upcominghorrormovies.com/movies/halloween9.php


The site gives us brief information about the show and the news about the movie.

Multi-media source http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/207555/rob_zombies_halloween_movie_trailer.html

The site let us preview the trailer and gives us information with regards to what is the movie like.

WWW site
http://www.halloween-themovie.com/

The site shows the preview of the movie and gives us more information of what is the movie about

Reflection
After research on the topic by using several resources, I get to know more of what the internet can provide us with different kinds of information. Some of the website will give us factual information, whereas others will give us opinion etc. From this practical session, I am able to identify the difference categories of resources and what are the differences between them. In additonal, i am also able to evaluate the difference categories if internet information resources and the search facilities.

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Pratical 2

Hello, i have research on the impact of drugs abuse on youth and the below are the links. Do take a look at my finding. :)

Organization: http://www.theantidrug.com/drug_info/
This is an organization website about drugs that the youth are using nowadays. It gives us details regarding the effect of the drug and where they can be found, the appearance of the drug etc.

Personal: http://www.courier-journal.com/blogs/pointtaken/2007/11/treat-drugs-like-alcohol-and-tobacco.html
This is a personal website. it tells us about the writer own feeling to why the government should legalized the drug and treat them like normal alcohol.

Subject-based: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/PUBS/drugid/ration-03.html
This is a subject based website, it relates to us the consequences about the youth taking drugs, and shows us some statistics based on the studies conducted.

Subject-based: http://www.usnodrugs.com/drug-abuse.htm

This website tells us some reasons to why do the people want to take/seek drugs.

Reflection
After doing the research on this topic- impact of drugs abuse on youth, i found out that different people have different perspective towards DRUG, some people think drugs are bad whereas others may think otherwise. I also managed to get some ideas regarding how the drug can affect not only our health but also our mental.
Also, through this pratical 2, I am able to identify the different types of websites and would be able to make comparison on the different types of website. Also through this lesson, i manage to learn how to identify the various categories of information resources and make comparsion on the different purposes.