Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Practical 3

Now I'm going to share with you guys what I have learnt in this lab.

Do you know?
How many type of purpose of resources online?

Answer:
· Information
· Advocacy
· Business/marketing
· News
· Personal
· Entertainment

Here, I have listed out four example of resources.

Resource 1: Information
Purpose of resource : Wikipedia
Reasons :
Wikipedia (pronunciation ) is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a blend of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites) and encyclopedia. Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger,[4] it is the largest, fastest-growing and most popular general reference work currently available on the Internet.


Resource 2: News
Purpose of resource: CNN
Reasons:
Cable News Network, commonly referred to by its initialism CNN, is a major news cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. The network is now owned by Time Warner; the news network is a division of the Turner Broadcasting System. CNN introduced the idea of 24-hour television news coverage, celebrating its 25th anniversary on 1 June 2005.


Resource 3: Business
Purpose of resource: Golden Village
Reasons:
This above website Golden Village is a cinema operator in Singapore which is a joint venture by Golden Harvest of Hong Kong and Village Roadshow of Australia. From this website, consumer will be able to book movie ticket from the internet which is a way of business transaction.


Resource 4: Entertainment
Purpose of resource: MTV
Reasons:
The above website is a song entertainment where MTV (Music Television) is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched on August 1, 1981, the original purpose of the channel was to play music videos. Today, MTV plays a limited selection of music videos but primarily broadcasts a variety of pop culture, youth culture, and reality television shows aimed at adolescents and young adults.

Hope u guys enjoy my sharing and music.

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