Here's a video of me playing my electone...

i never realised i look very weird/funny when i play it till now XD

It took me quite a while to practice this piece as i was pretty rusty....

hope you guys like it!

Week 5 - Education and the internet

Education isn't like what it use to be in the past. Learning now do not always have to be rigid and boring. It is now interactive, colorful and very digitalized.

Back when i was in Primary school, everything was done manually. we have to copy notes from the board, bring tonnes of books to class and practice our penmenship endlessly to make the grade.

Now in University, we don't copy notes but rather take pictures of the slides in our phones. We scan our books into our computer so we don't have to carry heavy books around. Who need a pen when we can type everything down in our laptop (and take pictures too!)?

Both virtural and E-learning has impacted so much in the way we learn, we interact with our lectures and how we do our work. It is not unusual to have online courses now where you can view your lessons any time of the day and where ever you fancy. if you want to learn anything now, you are glad to know that you are not confined to any classroom, and you are not judged by your race or gender but as long as you have a computer and internet connection, welcome to the new fronter of education!

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Learning occurs every single day of our lives, from the moment your awake to the time you tuck in to bed. For example, i had a bad hangover this morning (knowledge) and i realised that i must had drank too much the previous night (comprehension). Then i decided to head down to the pharmacy and grab some pills to cure the handover (application). when i do get better, i will take note how effective the medicine was (analysis) and reflect why i did drink the previous night. I'll recall it was my friend's birthday party (synthesis) and would make a mental note to buy more of such pills along just in case when i go out and party (evaluation).

well i know this example is not the BEST one to explain about Bloom's Taxonomy. But it gives a main idea how each single level of learning is done in order to climb up the next learning system. Throughout this whole example, i could have used the internet for search for more information on the pills which i should take to cure hangovers, or learn how to control my liquor. ( i don't usually drink that much anyway..... haa haa )

So we now do know that learning or getting information does not just limit to books and lectures, literaly everything can be found online. =D

Week 4 - E-commerce and online shopping...

My dad worked in IBM before so I have heard of the term e-commerce. when i asked him what it was, he told me it was were they do business online. I was 12 at that time. I had no idea what the internet is and how powerful it was going to be. Most of the time i would use the computer to type out my work or play games.

But NOW... e-commerce is well know all around the world. Recently US eCommerce and Online Retail sales projected to reach $204 billion, an increase of 17 percent over 2007. ( "The State of Retailing Online 2008". Forrester Research, Inc.). you can now purchase goods online from anywhere and anytime. B2B or B2C , these are pretty common phenomenon and now has revolutionized the shoppers style of shopping. Here are some of them :



Other than these, we also have the C2C e-commmerce. This is more like consumer to consumer business. shops like Ebay and own mini online shops that sells second hand items.



For me I'm now a frequent online shopper. It ranges from clothes to stickers ( i know XD ) to books and i think it requires a lot of trust because frankly you'll never know if the seller is just someone trying to rip you off. =(

But as long as you have some solid communication and invest money on the delivery, it's a easier way to shop and most of the time things are cheaper online =D

Video Feature... - History of the Internet

Week 2 - Social Media

'I can't live without the internet' that is just an understatement to how much I rely on it to get my life going. I check my mails daily and watch videos from Youtube and Veoh. I need the internet to do research for my projects ranging from articles to pictures to videos. And i get my daily dose of news from the internet too. it has replaced my traditional ways of reading from a book, newspapers or watching from television. And sometime i find it too tedious to go to every single website to check if they have updated any articles, so i use RSS ( Rich Site Summary ) to list down the latest updates without me going through every one of them.

I'm still pretty new to Podcast and the first time i heard it was from the Mr. Brown Show. It was the Prime Minister's speech and he turned it to a different phrase, 'Mai Hum'. haa haa... actually i find it troublesome to listen to Podcast. why do i have to go all the way to download their conversation just to listen to their views when i can hear these from the radio or from the news? Now i only listen to podcast once in a while for movie reviews like flimjunk and that's about it. ____________________________________________________________________

Here's a video about how the Internet has impacted the people during the 1990's. This news report was in 1993, but it is still relevant today as explains how it has connected people from all over the world together.

Week 1 - History of Internet.

I've been introduced to the internet when i was Pri 5 when i had to go and find pictures of birds for my Young Scientist Card. My dad taught me and showed me around Google and Yahoo. i was fasinated but did not really bother where do these information come from. Now i rely it everyday for my mail, work and entertainment. For me internet was just a 'fun box' till i got to know more about it in this module.



Here is a brief History of the internet.








as complicated as internet is now, it started out just as a defensive tool for USA then to scholars and researchers, finally for public usage.



Internet and Intranet.



the main difference between these two terms are the way it spreads it's information. Intranet is like a sub-set of Internet. it does have the same function, have the same softwares. Just that the information shared are within a certain group of people like school or office computers, where as for the internet, information is passed on to anyone around the globe.

Internet address and domains.




Internet domains and address are as important as out own names. It makes them unique and also makes it easier for one to track down a certain website when needed. From this video i realised that we can also try trying out the IP address instead of the actual domain name to go in a certain website. So i tired it out and here is this webpage's IP address : 64.233.189.191

Try it! =D

hi there world!