Reflection for Day 4

Once again I had survived another seven hours of lesson. Today we started off by doing our report. It was not a good start because I was stuck as soon as I touched on the introduction. It is easy writing report however it is not easy to write a report that can get a good grade. I had encountered some other problems as I continued writing. It seems that my brief description and analysis of the various search facilities are being mixed together. I also couldn't analysis much on the part for Meta Search Engine because that is very similar to Search Engine. I even realized that I keep repeating the same things over and over again in different sections of the report. Furthermore the different between Search Engine and Meta Search Engine is very similar and that made comparison much tougher. I am going to continue improving on the report to make it better.

After finishing the report, we went on and proceed with another activity and that is participating in forum discussion. As I had said in the previous post, I am not new to forum and I do enjoy participating in forum especially on topics that I have knowledge in. In that way, I will be able to share my knowledge with the rest of the community. Sharing knowledge is important because we should not keep it to ourselves. If we share it with people, people might comment or improve on it. In that way, we will also improve. It is just like talking to people other than that you are behind a computer screen. I always like to listen to people chat or join in the chat. It is very enriching to do so. I often learn and gain experience while being engaged in a chat. Sometime I will choose not to speak and listen carefully to those that are speaking. This explains why I hardly talk and some people do notice and ask me why I didn’t talk more. It is not that I am shy; it is just that I choose to listen more and talk less.

At one point of time, we seem to lose control and started spamming the forum with replies that are rubbish. Even then, I think that we were all having fun and chilling out from the serious work that we had much earlier. After all this activity of participating in discussion forum is to let us use the forum just in case that some people never visit forums before and hence it should be fun. Given the format and look of this forum, it does not even seem to look like a forum. The interface is completely different from the usual forum that we see and use. To see all the reply, we had to click manually using the "next" button and because of this it is not user-friendly. Lot of time is needed to browse through all the replies. It not a major problem when the number of replies is small. Having a real forum within the e-portal is not very efficient as not much people will use and it will cost lot of money to have one, therefore I think that it is alright that it is not user-friendly. I believe that in the further it will be improve as technology is getting better each time. With that the cost of running a forum will be lower.

And I also need to study for tomorrow test.