Description of self

Name: Lemuel Tay Yi Xian
Age: 19
Date of Birth: 24th April 1987
Religion: Christian
Likes: Swimming, Watching TV, Playing Video Games and Going Out.
Dislikes: Smokers, Gangsters and many more.

Two Favourite Websites: www.explosm.net/comics / www.reallifecomics.com

Description of myself:

I'm currently studying in Temasek Polytechnic, Diploma in Internet Computing. This is my 3rd year and my timetable is quite empty for this semester. I'm taking MBDP and UIR this semester.

Practical 4&5

Search Enginge 1: Google.com
Keywords used: "Effects of online gaming"
URL: http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/05/0809videogames.html
Purpose: Information

Description:

Discussion on whether there are any strong links between violent video games and aggression.

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Search Enginge 2: Metacrawler.com
Keywords used: "Effects of online gaming"
URL: http://wcco.com/specialreports/local_story_055165633.html

Purpose: Information/Advocacy
Description:
A publication of a special report to inform others about being addicted to online games.

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Search Enginge 3: Yahoo.com

Keywords used: "Effects of online gaming"

URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4273125.stm

Purpose: News

Description:

Opinions from 2 people on whether online gaming is bad for you. One is a gamer, while the other is a gaming counsellor.

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Reflections

I've found that although Google.com and Yahoo.com return plenty of results for the search query, only a handful of about 10-15 results are useful, while the remainder is useless. On the other hand, Metacrawler.com returned only about 95 results and most of them are quite useful. Percentage wise, I would say that Metacrawler.com is more effective and effecient when searching for stuff online.

Google.com and Yahoo.com also mostly returned the same search results.

Week 4 Practical 3

Resource 1: News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4273125.stm)

Purpose of resource : News

Reasons :
The site article from BBC contains personal opinions on the topic “Head to
Head: Is Gaming Bad For You?” from a gaming counselor and a gamer.
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Resource 2: Electronic Magazines (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A952300)

Purpose of resource : Entertainment

Reasons :
The article is from an e-magazine, and made available for readers to just
read during their leisure time.
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Resource 3: Journal(http://www.angelfire.com/oh5/falcongimp/dan.html)

Purpose of resource : Personal

Reasons :
A personal website done by Dan Nawrocki on Online Gaming.
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Resource 4: News(http://www.redorbit.com/news/display?d=206846&source=r_scifi_gaming)

Purpose of resource : Information

Reasons :
Information is provided on whether there are any strong links seen between
violent video games and aggression.
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Reflections:
I was only able to get results for News and E-magazines from my search of the different resources, however, they had different purposes, which made it much easier to do the practical.

Week 3 Practical 2

1) Subject-based www.news.uiuc.edu/news/05/0809videogames.html
Research by Andrea Lynn on links between violent video games and aggression

2)Personal http://skyee.bol.ucla.edu/results.htm
Personal research by Stephanie yee on online forums/communities/discussion boards. Survey with a ‘gamer’version and ‘non-gamer’ version.

3)Organizational www.mda.gov.sg/wms.file/mobj/mobj.579.parents_vide-effect.pdf
Article on the positive & negative impacts of video games for the parents to read.

4)Personal www.personal.psu.edu/users/r/d/rdh160/283-projects.htm
Website with MS documents regarding the psychological effects of online gaming.

5)Discussion Forum http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=mvpgeneral&thread.id=4262&page=3
Thread on online gaming addictions.

These websites were quite difficult to search for as the keywords used returned lots of different results, some which were not useful at all, and some regarding online gambling. However, I was still able to locate the websites out of the many irrelevant websites that were given to me. I've learned to use different keywords when trying to search for something specific in the whole topic, like adding "discussion" to the keywords to search for results that returned websites for discussion forums.

Tweaked

I added a tag box and tweaked some of the items on the blog. That's all I did for my whole day @ home.

LOL.

Oh, and some TV too.

Second Week

The second week of school's over. That's fast... Or maybe is it because I've got only 2 subjects this semester and that makes time fly by quicker? Hmm....

MBDP and UIR. The 2 subjects of this semester. Quite relaxing though... Glad I completed my MP last semester. No more stressing about, unlike my other classmates who're starting to feel the stress from MP. The reports, designs, mock ups.

2 days of school per week... Gotta look for a part time job to keep myself occupied... Anyone who's reading this have a job to recommend? Haha..