Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Activity 2 (Blog Reflections)

Briefly reflect on lessons learnt from this practical:
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a. Which criteria did you use to evaluate Stomp.com? Why did you choose this criteria? What lessons have you learnt from this activity?
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The criteria that I use to evaluate Stomp.com is mainly the purpose and coverage. Because, personally I feel that these two are the most crucial elements in evaluating. The objective of the content is important as Stomp.com has many articles, but each article seeks a purpose, for example, the attention of the higher authorities or just us the public. The coverage is also important as some subject areas of Stomp.com's articles are plain pointless and some are important but did not have the chance to be published in major newspapers. What I have learnt from this activity is that to evaluate a citizen journalism website like Stomp.com, we can't evaluate the website without basic categories like purpose, coverage, accuracy, accessibility, usability and so on.
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b. How do you feel about sharing your views via Wiki?
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I enjoy sharing my views via Wiki, as I am able to see what others has share about their research topic or other factual information, and I myself also can share about my research topic. We can view and learn more about each other's research topic. This is a good thing as most of the time, we will only research solely on our own topic and not bother about the other topics. And we can also freely edit each other's information if they are inaccurate.