INFORMATION LITERACY ( Sixth Week Reflection )

                                          

                             "SIXTH WEEK 

                                 

                              REFLECTION"

                                                                              

“Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand”

    The week has gone and we started with week six. As week six was a bit boring for me because, I had so many assignments and I had two mid-term exams. During week six when I entered to class I was feeling very boring and sad. When the lecturer entered to class we welcomed her and we said Good Afternoon to her. Then, the lecturer started to ask some questions about our previous lesson the aim of our lecturer was just to evaluate us that, whether we understand or no. Yet, all the students were able to answer the questions. After that, we started with our lesson. Week six was all about Search Strategies Basics. First of all we started with week six session 1. In session 1 we studied Truncation and Wildcards. Furthermore, the lecture gave us some information about Truncation and Wildcards.

    Moreover, by studying this lesson I learned that, Truncation and wildcards broaden your search capabilities by allowing you to retrieve multiple spellings of a root word or word stem, such as singular and plural forms. A wildcard is a special character, such as an asterisk (*), question mark (?), or pound sign (#), that replaces one or more letters in a word. Example of Truncation: truncation expands the search to locate all words beginning with the same root. Example: teen* will return teen, teens, teenage, teenagers, etc……. Example of Wildcard: A wildcard is used in the middle of a word to match usually known variants of term. A wildcard usually represents a single character. Example: wom?n will return woman, women and womyn.

    Furthermore, we started with week six session 2 and 3. In session 2 and 3 we studied Phrase Searching. By studying this lesson I learned that, what phrase searching is all about. Phrase searching is when you use a string of words (instead of a single word) to search with. Some databases will use the brackets. We have to look at the “Help” function of each database to see what you should use for that particular database. The lecturer stressed on this point a lot that, not all the databases allow phrase searching. We have to look at the “Help” function of the database to find out.

 

                                    "Periodical Searching Words And Phrase Searching"

    Last but not least, it was an interesting week and I learned a lot of new things which I have not known before. I was really interested in this lesson because, I learned about searching, Truncation and Wildcards. After, studying this lesson I am fully able to find the differences between phrase searching and Boolean searching.

Sincerely,

Said Abid s/o Said Tahir

20911029

INFORMATION LITERACY ( Fifth Week Reflection )

                                                             

                               "FIFTH WEEK

                                                                                                          REFLECTION"

                                                                               

“Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand”

    The week has gone and we started with week 5. During week 5 when I entered to class I was feeling a bit boring because, I was very sick I was suffering from flue. Yet, it was an interesting and awesome week. Week 5 was all about Search Strategies Basics. In the first day of class we studied Boolean Operators. Then the lecturer started to describe that what Boolean Operator is. Boolean Operators are words that connect a search that may add or subtract a concept to your search. Boolean search is the most common and basic search strategy. Furthermore, the lecturer gave us some example about Boolean Search such as: 

1. By using an AND between words you limit the search. 

2. By placing an OR between words it expends the search. 

3. When you use OR you receive more information because the search engine is looking for two words rather than just one word.

    Moreover, the lesson was so interesting and we have learned a lot of new things which, we have not known before. Next, the lecturer gave us a quiz during class. There were three questions in the quiz that what are Boolean, Phrase and truncation searching then, we started to answer the questions. After the quiz we were able to know that what are Boolean, Phrase and Truncation searching. Furthermore, we studied Brainstorming Search Terms. It shows us the way how to brainstorm on something. Below are some examples which have been given by our lecturer.

1. Library Subject Headings: Used as the “official vocabulary” of the libraries catalog as well as many other library catalogs.

2. Science Subject Headings: Used to describe the content of documents in the library at AIU as well as in catalogs of other medical and health sciences libraries.

3. Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms: This controlled vocabulary is used by American Psychological Association indexers to describe the content of documents in the database. These subjects’ headings are sometimes called index terms or descriptors. The library has copies of the printed volume and the thesaurus is also available online, searchable from within the database.

 

    In conclusion I can say that it was an interesting and awesome week and we have gained and learned a lot of things. The things which I learned in the class were very useful and significant. I am interested and looking forward to learn more about this lesson which we studied in week five.

Sincerly,

Said Abid s/o Said Tahir 

209110297

INFORMATION LITERACY ( Fourth Week Reflection)

   "FOURTH WEEK 

    REFLECTION"

                                                                                

“Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand”

    Week 3 has finished and we started with week four. As I was not attended any of the classes for the whole week. During week four I went to KL (Kula Lumpur) for the SUKIPT tournament. During week 4 i was studying by my own. I learned How to Use an Online Database. An online database is a database accessible from a network, including from the Internet. It differs from a local database, held in an individual computer or its attached storage, such as a CD. Further more, i have learned week 4 sessions by my self and it was immensely useful and helpful. 

Beside that I participated in SUKIPT tournament. Let me give some information about the SUKIPT and for what did I go there. SUKIPT is a Malaysian tournament which is held after every two year. The SUKIPT tournament is a sport carnival which includes so many sports such as: Volleyball, Football, badminton, netball, tennis, chess, table tennis, swimming and so on and so forth. We can luckily say that AiU (Albukhary International University) has been chosen for the 2012 SUKIPT tournament. For this year AiU has managed to include in 5 sports such as: Volleyball, netball, badminton, and chess. Furthermore, I can say that I was so lucky that I have been chosen for this tournament. Among all these sports I played volleyball. As I have been playing volleyball since 3 years and I was the captain of my team during my school. Moreover, I with my AiU volleyball team including my coach went for this tournament. 

    Furthermore, 101 universities joined the SUKIPT tournament however, all the competitions were between the students and as it is the main aim of SUKIPT to entertain the students and give them a strong motivation from both physically and mentally. Before starting the SUKIPT carnival there was an interesting opening ceremony. During the opening ceremony the Minister of Education of Malaysia was also there and he gave a motivational speech to all the 2012 SUKIPT players. During the opening ceremony there were a lot of singers and dancers to entertain us. They dance and sang very well and made us happy. So, we started our first match with UiTM university UiTM volleyball team was very strong and they had professional and national players. During the match we inspired a lot by our coach and he was shouting that “You can do it guys” he was repeating this sentence again and again. Unfortunately we lost the match but, still we tried our best. The coach advised us that don’t give up and get ready for the next.

    Moreover, the first match was very interesting and we enjoyed it a lot. The second day we had another match with UTM University. We started our match against UTM students and they were also a bit stronger than us but, we were still showing our self to them that we are stronger than them. In the first round we managed to make high scores but, in the second round they managed to get higher scores than us. Unfortunately, we lost the match against UTM University. At first my coach including our team were so sad but, still our coach was inspiring us and was giving a strong moral that try your best in the future and fight against the challenges. The matches were very interesting. As it was AiU’s first time joining SUKIPT so it was a bit strange for all of us but, never mind we all tried our best and we will keep trying in the future.

    Last but not least, after finishing the matches we learned that “Don’t Give UP” if we are stocked in any situation we have to try our best for that and if we cannot solve that problem then, there are so many ways for solving that problem we have to pick up the best one and start trying for that. Our coach said that life has Success and Fail .If u don’t fail you cannot achieve success easily. So, keep trying, accept the challenge and get ready for it.

Sincerely, 

Said Abid s/o Said Tahir

209110297