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FINAL ASSESSED POST – THE END… OR IS IT?

13 days have been a fruitful journey as I had liberal and invaluable takeaways. Through this module, I obtained in-depth knowledge on digital literacy and the main features of social platform while expanding my professional online profile. The slideshow below shows my improvement upon completing this module! Ppt from Rebecca Liew   I’ll elaborate further on the improved points in the self test. Previously, I gave myself lower ratings as I had only basic knowledge in the categories. Continue reading →

REFLECTION FOR TOPIC 5 – WE SHOULD GET FREE ACCESS

As students, we require FREE ACCESS to articles to aid us in our assignments. However, we might meet paywalls which stops us from accessing information without subscription. (Image from myself, source from http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v4/n5/full/nphoton.2010.2.html)   I would like to EMPHASIS MY SUPPORT for open access materials which provides a more meaningful use of technology to accelerate discovery, increasing exposure to new information. Continue reading →

TOPIC 5: SHOULD WE GET FREE ACCESS?

With the internet becoming more accessible, open content such as music or research materials are easily attainable online. (Source: http://bit.ly/2eAvrBg) With majority of our assignments on the web, students still run into access barriers while searching for research materials, forcing us to settle for what we can get access to, rather than what we need the most. Personally, I’ve experienced countless times having asked to pay to get the access to the full text like the photo below. Continue reading →

TOPIC 4 – BUSINESS USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA: THE EXPOSED

One of the defining phenomena of the present is the reshaping of the world into a digital era. With social media involved in sharing of content for business purpose in numerous platforms, ethics remains as one of the core value that each individual has a part to follow on the Internet. (Source: http://www.statista.com/graphic/5/278414/number-of-worldwide-social-network-users.jpg) Ethics is defined the concept of what is good, bad, right and wrong. Continue reading →

REFLECTION – IS HAVING MULTIPLE ONLINE IDENTITIES GOOD OR BAD?

Here’s some reflection to how I felt after researching, reading and commenting on my colleague’s post. Many of my peer’s agreed that multiple online identities allows one to express themselves without the fear of judgements and inequity as it gives them a chance to communicate openly about sensitive issues, while keeping their anonymity multiple digital personas thus able to control what we wish to share with the right group of people. Continue reading →