1. Using your favourite metaphor, describe the most important lesson that you had learnt in your EIR journey.

Through my EIR journey, I realised that sometimes, finding useful information on the internet can be like finding a needle in a haystack. Meaning that relevant information can sometimes be extremely diffifult to locate among the thousands of different sources on the internet.

Therefore, through applying some skills I learnt through EIR, I am able to optimise my search results and gather as much useful information in as little time as possible.

2. Write a paragraph summarizing your findings on your research topic.

Does a terminally ill patient have the right to decide how and when to end his life?

Those supporting euthanasia argue that a civilised society should allow people to die in dignity and without pain. They believe that we should be allowed to do what we want with our own bodies, including choosing the route to euthanasia. They feel that making people contunue living when they don't want to violates their personal freedom and human rights, therfore they believe that it is immoral to force people to continue living in suffering and pain.

They add that as suicide is not a crime, euthanasia should not be a crime.

Those against euthanasia believe that as life is given by God, only God can take away life. Others also fear that euthanasis might be abused and people who do not really want to die might be killed.

Euthanasia is illegal in most countries, although doctors do sometimes carry out euthanasia even where it is illegal.

Therefor the debate on whether euthanasia shouls or should not be legalised goes on.

a. Which criteria did you use to evaluate Stomp.com? Why did you choose this criteria? What lessons have you learnt from this activity?

When evaluating Stomp.com, i had to assess the authority and reputation of the sources. This was because stomp.com is open to the public to post their comments and share their news. Therefore, not all pieces of comments and news from public users can be trusted.

Through this activity, I have learnt not to trust online sources too easily as the infomration they provide may not be accurate.


b. How do you feel about sharing your views via Wiki?

I felt a bit unconfortable sharing my views on wiki at first as I did not know what would people think of my views, however, after several tries, I finally got the hang of it and started to feel that view sharing on wikis are actually fun and informative

Do you think it is more effective to search the invisible web (databases) than using search engines, meta-search or subject directories? Why?
I think it is better to use search engines such as google to search for information due to its simplicity and effectiveness.
Subject directories are compiled by humans, thus it might not ahve the information you are looking for if no one has ever compiled it before.
Meta search engines are not too bad.
It searches several different search engines all at once.
However the results churned out are sometimes irrelevant.

a. What benefits do you get when using different search facilities to search for resources related to your topic?
Through using different search facilites to search for resources, I have widened my search area instead of just limiting myself to a single search facility.
Also I can cross reference the infromation gathered from various search facilities to see if they match.

Site feeds in my blog enables me to get an update on my friends blog with he/she updates.
This I good as I would know when to read his/her blog for a new post.

Collaborating on Wiki with other students was fun!
I fing that this is actually a good way to discuss on the research topic other that actually meeting face to face to discuss.
The other student provided me with vital information that I did not know.
I also gave them some heads up on what i have done for my research so far.

Today I learnt that google uses an algorithm called PageRank to rank all it's search results according to relavance and inportance.
I must say that i am highly impressed with PageRank as I find it highly effective in doing its job.
Also google has one of the largest databases as compared to the other search engines.
This means that doing reseach in Google may yield more results.


I have also participated in an online discussing forum reguarding euthanasia.
It can be helpful to my research as people with experience with this topic may actually come forward to share their experiences.
However, the credibility of the person sharing the information must also be questioned as I do not know him/her personally.
Talking to others in the forum may feel a little weird at first as they are all strangers.
However I find that many of them are pretty nice and helpful, although there were a couple of them who did not contribute much.

I also tried to do citations an bibliographies.
This enables us to state the real source of where we got our research information from.
Also this is a good way to credit the authors for their work.

Introduction

I'm Stefan Koh.

Seventeen this year.

From Financial Business Informatics (FBI).

I love riding my bike.

I don't have a favourite singer.

Neither do I have a fovourite television programme.

I usually hang out at East Coast Skatepark with my friends when I'm free.

My favourite website is facebook.com.





I'm passionate about riding my bike.

The only tip to learn how to ride a bike is to ride a bike.

In other words, Practice.

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