Reflection for Day 7

Well, today we had another test early in the morning. However I am quite disappointed that I had done badly for the test. At the same time I feel that the questions are tougher this time around. The options are quite near and hence I had trouble pointing out the correct answer. With this test, it will be the end of all the lectures. Lastly I had survived the whole of EIR.

We were told to participate in wiki. The wiki that we use is a freeware from http://eir-rawkz.wetpaint.com/. However after using it for a while, I realized that it is not very useful. The reason being that too many people are editing it at the same time; hence there is a different in the version of the text. It results in error when saving. Because of that I didn't managed to include what I want to add until the end of the lesson and at home. When I was about to add in my information, I realized that the amount of content is already quite a lot. Therefore I didn't have much to add on other than correcting certain mistake that I notice and also to include a few more points. Even then, I had a great experience in collaborating and sharing on the topic of Ethics using Social Networking Services. For examples, we share about the basic ethics of using social networking services such as not spamming and to respect other. I think that is pretty much common sense. You won't like it if people come spamming at you, so do not do that to someone else. Other than that, respecting other is also very important. We should not defame people especially if the new is not the truth. It will only bring about hate. Racism on the Internet such as blog is also a serious offence as Singapore is a multi-racial country. The authority will not allow people to spread or talk bad about another race. One person had been jailed for doing so as he shown sign of racism in his post blog.

From the activity, I understand about community spirit. The community spirit within our class can be strongly felt. In just a short moment after we even given the instruction to start researching for the content of wiki, many information and resources had appeared on the wiki. That is also sharing of knowledge within the community. Although I don't have much content to add on, I did edit part of the content and added some extra content to make it even better. It is always good to share knowledge than keeping it to yourself. I think that all this is impossible if there isn't any community spirit.

I may consider using wiki for research in my own Diplomas. The reason is that wiki enable a group of people to easily collaborate large amount of information together. From the activity, I can conclude that using the usual manual method of compiling information, it will take a very long time. Hence this also saves quite a lot of our time.

With this last reflection, it marks the end of EIR. I had learnt and done a lot of work in the past few days. Nevertheless I still enjoy this subject a lot other than having to complete lots of work within such a short period of time. Indeed this is the fastest pace of subject ever. I am surprise at time that we had done and learnt so much in such a short period of time. I had also been blogging almost every day for the past one week. It surely is a pleasant experience doing so and I enjoy doing it.

Tomorrow will be the last and final day of EIR. By then had to finish our final portfolio which is due for submission. Even though my portfolio look quite completed, but I still feel that more can be done to improve it yet I have no idea what to include making it better. There is also a short presentation tomorrow which is graded. The presentation is for us to talk about our experience that we had during the past few days. However I don’t seem to have much to talk about. I just know what I learnt a lot of useful skills that I can apply it in the future. Lastly I certainly hope that this will not be my last post in this blog. Can anyone give me the motivation to continue blogging even after EIR is over?