Tutorial Worksheet 3&4
Twitter is very easy to navigate and update, links to other website and promote anything. It is user friendly and also can expand ypur circle of friends. We can not only check to see what our friends or relatives are doing, we can also express our own status and opinions too.
It has pure communication tools, rapid responsiveness which is used for chatting with our friends and is useful when we are using our computers outside or overseas.
Twitter also has its disadvantage as it has a limited functionality which find people, send messages and direct replies.
Facebook is also another social networking site similar to twitter but Facebook has lots of functions compared to twitter. But facebook is difficult to navigate and updates. Unlike twitter communication tool, facebook was responds showly unless you stay logged on continuously.
Facebook also can quicky grasp the value of connection to your friends, family and contacts. It can easily find people, email, instant messaging and image/video sharing to your friends/family.
Twitter should including games as it also can be part of entrainment for people using twitter. They should include search functions. They can also use twitter as a search engine which will be more useful for them if they are trying to search something. Besides search tools, they can add forums of different categories such as popular topics which can let all people see or participate.
EBSCOhost databases
The search does give a lot of different results as I expected, some links contain different information and it allows you to read it in adobe reader and also allows you to save it to your folders. It also shows you the name of the websites creator and there are details on him or her.
On the right side of the webpage there are related images. On the left side of the webpage shows the number of amount of information generated by EBSCOhost databases (amount is 23816) and there are some funtions to chose to sefine search.
It also support full Boolean like NOT, AND, OR and some options for user to choose in this database. It has a lot of function like basic search, advanced search, visual search, search history and others.
On the top bar, there are some function like subjects, new search, publications, images and other for user and others. You can choose different languages for the foreigners to use their own mother tongue to search for information. This database has many different EBSCOhost databases and provides subjects for your course like art & architecture, business, communication, computer science design, education, engineering, film, food science, medical science, regional news, tourism, veterinary science.
Newslink databases
a. Do you think it is more effective to search the invisible web (databases) than using search engines, meta-search or subject directories? Why?
No because it has less information in the invisible a web compare to search engines, meta-search or subject directories. The search engines, meta-search or subject directories have information from all over the country. It can be used by the public but the invisible web only use for some of the people.
b. Name ONE database which you will use for your research topic. Why?
I will use the EBSCOhost databases because it has a lot of functions to reduce search result and support full Boolean in my research topic. It is easy for me to use the function and easy to find information compared to other databases.
c. Name ONE more database which you will use for your course. How will you use this database for your course?
I will use EBSCOhost databases and Newslink databases for my course. I will use it to search information for my project, assignment and others. Newslink databases help me to find information in newspaper articles and images. EBSCOhost databases help me to find information in journal articles and also find information under the subject for my course.
