Second life!

In this activity, we have to be online in Second Life @ TP to chat with students from HKPolyU. I was assigned to go online on the 15th November, I missed that time slot out as I doesn't have any computer at home to allow me to access, including my laptop which was sent for repair since school reopens :( Thus, I went online the next day using my bf's laptop. I downloaded Second Life and went it at around 9. Luckily there's quite a number of HKPolyU students over there to chat with! A student named Wai (sclife006) shout out to all asking for people to interview. Thus, I approach him and chat with him :)

Wai was interested in going over to German for his holidays. He's reason being that German is a great country, he likes German's culture, and quite a lot of great people were born there. What surprises me is that he even pick up German language too, and got himself a Kindergarden level in German, interesting! haha. He even plan to get there in about 2 and a half years later, after his Master Degrees. When we comes to this question, "Is it ethical to use social media for harmful effects?" He said that this question is quite biasing, and his opinion is that to do something for harmful effect in very most of the case is not ethical just like in real life, when you harm others, it couldn't be ethical.

After that, I saw a new message from russellwmy who have sent me earlier on but i didn't notice it. >< Thus, I decided to talk to him and ask him the next 2 questions. When I asked about how to use Social Media in a more responsible way, his response was don't do cyber bullying, next, I ask about how can he protect himself from cyber bullying, he response with making a second thought before uploading anything on the net. Which i find it true and this applies to every other people who have an online account. While for personal information, set them up to proper private settings to allow only friends to access.

Overall, I think that this exercise was fun! It allows us to see different views from people from other country and I even add russellwmy in Facebook!

Blog Reflections

1. Why do you think there is a need for researchers to know the different purposes of websites?

Explain using examples of websites you often visit or those which you have encountered while researching on your research topic.

Each different websites have their different purposes. Example like Facebook, Twitter, Gmarket, Google and YouTube. Facebook and Twitter are social websites. Facebook enables users to share their word of the day, photos and chat online. While Twitter allows users to share their thoughts in mind, what they encountered and researches online! Gmarket is a shopping website just like Amazon. Many users prefer to visit them as there's a wide variety of things they can find there. Google, a useful website like Yahoo allows users to find for different research online. Just by keying in any sentence or words, a few million of website would appear just right in front of us! Lastly, YouTube is a website which people shares their videos. People can post a lot of videos like videos that is related to idols, musician, school or even self made video!

2. Choose an advocacy website. Compare this advocacy website with the shopping website you had used for your E-shopping websites by using THREE differences.

The advocacy website that I have chosen is Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA).

The SPCA is a group that is set up to stop animal cruelty in the world. As stated in their website, the two main objectives of the SPCA are:

1 - to promote kindness to animals and birds.

2 - to prevent cruelty to animals and birds.

Animals that were being abandon will be sent to SPCA, but the amount of animals that they received reached 1k! These animals would be either reunite with their owners, or find a new home. While those which are not that lucky, will be put to sleep.

Gmarket is the website that I used for my E-shopping! An online shopping website includes many varieties of items that can be seen in everyday life, like electronic gadgets, clothings, accessories, shoes, bags, cosmetics and many more!

The 3 difference of this two websites are:

1. SPCA is a group that help promotes the cause of animal cruelty while Gmarket promotes items that can be sold to many.

2. SPCA allows people to adopt pet by paying a little money for their medical expenses while Gmarket sells items that people wants or need.

3. SPCA welcomes volunteer to help in taking care of animals and raising funds, while Gmarket users sells their items individually.

3. Explain the most meaningful lesson you had learnt from Practical 1&2.

In practical 1 and 2, I got to understand and branch out the purposes of researching online. The item that I can get for me and myself with $500.

E-Shopping!

If I were given $500 to go on an online shopping spree, I would like to purchase an Xbox 360 Kinect for my family and myself!

Reasons being that when i first saw their advertisement online, their functions largely attracts my attention. This device enables us to interact with the system using our body movements. At the same time, it's multi-player! This can help improve family bonding too! ^^

I went to Gmarket to look for Kinect, and just nice, it costs $499! :)

And here's the video that attracts my attention :)

Week 2: Activity 1

Topic: Causes and Effect of Selective Mutism

Web 1

Name: Selective Mutism

URL: http://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/selectivemutism.htm

Category: Organisation

Purpose: Information, Advocacy.

Web 2

Name: Selective Mutism Group

URL: http://www.selectivemutism.org/

Category: Organisation

Purpose: Information, Entertainment

Introduction

Hello! My name is Hui Jia (of course, the one at on the left) from Diploma in Interactive Media Informatics :) My favourite past time is watching dramas, movies, singing songs and hanging out with my loved ones. Actually, I don't really have a favourite hang out place, as long as the place is peaceful and enjoyable to stay with, it can satisfy me. But definitely not a crowded place where i have to spend some time walk! Facebook of course, is the favourite site for almost everyone! Plus Twitter, where i can tweet whatever thoughts I have, Tumblr which is where i can find many interesting pictures and quotes. :)

Hmm.. I don't really have any much skill. But, I have a great interest in editing pictures! I started editing pictures at the age of 15, where I found out photobucket which provides an area for us to edit our image. Since then, I get to edit my pictures to different types of feel and adding a few meaningful sentences in it, and after each image that I have edited, a satisfied feeling will definitely follow behind :) And since poly Year 1, we are required to have the skills for Photoshop, the good image editing tools!

For the skills, it can be learnt easily! Just simply try out different shades that was provided in the link or program and select the best that brings out the colour of the image!


Links:
Photobucket
PhotoShop