Practical 6A

Discuss the impact of drug abuse on youths

http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/4783/kids_and_teens/of_drugs_and_youth.html

Purpose
Are the aims of the website clearly stated?

Yes. The website is saying about the problem of drug abuse among the youth has assumed a greater significance and heightened concern in various socio-cultural and economic strategy.

Coverage
What is the coverage of the site? Is it comprehensive? What subject areas and materials are covered? Are there any pointers to further information that enhance the coverage of the site? Are the links to other sites useful?

The site covers about the impact of drug abuse among youths age 16 to 25. The depth of coverage is average and it talks about giving preventive programs for youth. It also suggests that leisure time activities are ways to keep them busy or else they may become easy prey to anti-social activities including drug-abuse. There are pointers to further information that enhances the coverage of the site. The links to other sites are not that useful however. It does not contain web pages of similar pages. But it has web pages on the impacts of abuse among youths.

Authority
Is this an authoritative source? Are there any reviews about this site or has it been included in any gateways or virtual libraries?

It is an authoritative source. It is from a reputable author that has wrote several newspapers, edited short stories and reports. It is a google web page and it is included in virtual libraries.


Accuracy
Are the facts accurate? Does it use research as a basis? Is there political, ideological, or biasness in the source? Is it a factual site or one that contains an opinion? Are the references stated clearly? Is it free from grammatical, spelling and typographical errors?

The facts are accurate. There is no sign of political, ideological or biasness in the source. It is a fact stated by the author as he explains the problem of drug abuse and suggested solutions to prevent them. It is free from grammatical, spelling and typographical errors.


Currency
Is the information up-to-date? Is it well-maintained?

The information is up to date. It is well maintained.

Accessibility
Is the site easily accessible? Does it require registration and log-ins? Are all the information accessible for FREE?

It is easily accessible. It requires no registration and log-ins. The information in the web is accessed for free.


Presentation and Arrangement
Is the information well presented and arranged? Is the information clearly, consistently and logically presented and arranged? Are there any features such as site map, an index or a search facility? How effective are the search features in helping users to find information?

The format of presentation is a neat. There is adequate spacing in between sentences. The information is consistent and clearly stated. However, there are no site maps or search facilities available.


Usability
Is it easy to use and navigate around? Are there user support facilities?

It is easy to navigate around. There are some basic user support facilities located in the website.


Overall
What is your overall impression of the quality of the website?

The quality of the website is good. The information is updated and there is clear explanation regarding the impact of drug abuse on youths. However, it lacked sufficient content on how to prevent youths from falling into preys to drug abuse.

Practical 4& 5

Resource 1: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/
Purpose of resource : Information
Reasons : There are a lot of information and facts shown on the website. Besides that, there are also news which is also a kind of information.


Resource 2: http://www.hrw.org/
Purpose of resource : Advocacy
Reasons : This is about human rights. This website discuss topics related to human. E.g. people got beaten up, imprison the person unreasonably.


Resource 3: http://amazon.com/
Purpose of resource : Business/marketing
Reasons : This website is about buying and selling items through web. People are doing business over the internet.



Resource 4: http://www.globalrph.com/entertainment.htm
Purpose of resource : Entertainment
Reasons : This website have jokes, fan information, movie clips, overseas trip. All are entertainment that relaxes us.

Practical 3

Comparison and Evaluation on search effectiveness

Compare the search results. Identify 2 characteristics that make all 3 search facilities similar or different from one another.
All the of them lead to the information that was requested.
There are different website for the searcher to choose.


Yahoo is prompt out the website that matches the keywords, meta shows the information searched from the website found, subject directory shows a the string of subject that which subject u are looking into and let u choose and lead u into another page to choose the information after choosing the subject.

Yahoo search is a simple search that lead user to website, meta allows u to see which website the information is from. So as to let the user cast out the thought of unreliable websites. Subject based is not to lead the user search the topics differently to prevent to confuse the searcher. As keys words can lead to many different kinds of subjects.


Do you find any strength/weakness of each of them, in terms of search capability?
The searches are more detailed. It minimizes the search and make the search detailed.

Overall, which search facility best meet your searching needs? Why?
Subject. Cos alcohol is about health problems
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Practical 1

Newsgroups and discussion list
http://www.asianbookie.com/
Enables users to share information and post comments on the website to show how they feel about certain players/ issues regarding EPL. It comes with various forums as well as live scores.


Electronic journals and magazine
http://www.epltalk.com/
Talks about the latest news and speeches from the soccer players.


Multi-media source
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ZFfJjxWTc
For entertainment purpose. Able to view the latest EPL highlights and goals.


WWW site
http://www.soccernet.com/
Live scores, pre-match discussions as well as reviews about the EPL players.

Practical 2

organization
http://www.cnb.gov.sg/ANTIDRUG/index.asp?page=2&site_id=AntiDrug%20-%20Drug%20Facts
It is the facts about what kind of symptom will u get after consumed those drugs. Will also get to know the different type of drugs and how to identify them.


Subjects-based
http://www.windowsfordevices.com/articles/AT4335151181.html
Smart phone are growing very fast with revenue gaining 45 percent over a year. More and more wireless phone are in production now and they are the best selling devices.
personal


Personal
http://www.x-ecnerwal-x.blogspot.com/
He says about his personal life, what he is doing everyday and mostly he talk about his girlfriend in the blog. How is he going through wit her each day such stuff. He also talk about his school.


organization
http://www.pap.org.sg/
It tells us what are the things coming up in Singapore. There are also some speeches given by the government to Singaporeans. Activities conducted are also shown there. It gives a more understand to the people about Singapore government.



The major differences are all those website are talking about different topics.. Some are about technologies, politices, personal stuffs. By typing different keywords, the search page will lead you to different kinds of website as you had requested. searching for the correct website on the correct topic is not easy as the content of the website maybe not be what you wanted. Using the right keyword is very important inorder to make accurate searches. Searching website is hard.. So many for u to choose and u need to choose the best one out of it..

About Me

Name is vincent.. From mobile and wireless computing..
i also dont know much about myself.. Maybe get to know me well then u will discover for me
Hobbies will be bowling.. Love sports but dun have the $ to play them regulary...

recommandation for website will be- www.basilmarket.com and www.maplesea.com -_-
it is really "exciting"

Basilmarket is a site that buy and sell maple items there... it is like an auction website..
Maplesea is game website that have maple announcement, galleries, guide... -_-