Search and Communicate

Hi everyone!

How are you? Since last week was a holiday week, so I need to gather all my writing mood for this week. It is never easy.

For this week, I’m going to share with all of you about Search Engines and Online Database plus Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) and ESL. Let us start with Search Engines and Online Database first. I think most of us know what the search engines are. Especially those who used internet and computer a lot. It is a web tool that allows you to enter any keywords and find the information. For examples, google, Bing, yahoo and many more. So, you can use search engine to find my blog and then it will bring you to my blog.

p/s: Every search engine has their own database.

Next, we also have SPECIALIZED SEARCH ENGINE and META SEARCH ENGINE. Me as a student will usually use the specialized search engine. Why? Because I’m special. Hahahaha just kidding. The reason is because there is some search engine that made for the student. For examples, Google School, Academia.edu, etc. There is also pipl.com where it is specialized for those who is looking for someone. Then, if you use meta search engine, it will give the combination results from other search engines. For examples, Dogpile, Metacrawler, Sputtr and others. Thus, please don’t forget to try it. It is so interesting and worth to try.

As all of you know, I’m learning English. Thus, when I learned about technology it has to be connected with language. You need to know that while using the technology, we used our reading skills, writing skills and also our critical thinking skills. We have to be able to write the keyword, then need to read the info and use our critical thinking to analyse either it is the relevant info that we need. Do you get me? That is why learning language is important.

Another lesson that we learned was Computer Mediated Communication (CMC).

CMC is any form of communication between 2 or more people via separate computer through network connection. It is like between me and you. We are having an interaction right now. But the only differ now it is either asynchronous or synchronous. 

http://cat-udc.blogspot.com/2010/12/synchronous-and-asynchronous.html

So from the table above, hope it can help you to understand it better. Therefore, blog is one of the example of asynchronous cmc. 

One of the best things about CMS is if you are too lazy to go the class but you want to have a certificate you can go to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Below is the link. You can learn it online. It is interesting, isn’t? I hope one day, I’m able to join it.

https://www.openlearning.com/malaysiamoocs

Lastly, we learned about collaborative learning. As students, sometimes we have lots of pair and group works. So, by using google docs, google sheets and many more we can do the same works at different places. As long as we set in the setting that anyone with the link will be able to edit. Thus, there will be no free rider in a group. Below is the link that will teach you how to use google docs for collaborative learning. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcwRhQWAja0

I hope there is something new for you to learn. Till the next post!