1st Practical Lab for UIR

For the first practical lesson, we were told to search the internet for the following resources:

- Discussion Forum
- Electronic journal/magazine
- WWW site
- Personal
- Organisational

It wasn't easy to start off, looking for a forum related to Podcasting that I can get people to post their views on, but I managed to find one called Digital Podcasting Forum where I have seen people post up threads for help on how to podcast/RSS. Maybe I could start a thread to get the views on how podcasting/RSS has become a trend.

For electric journal/magazine, I would say it is harder. For starters, I've never read any of them online before and I've never seemed to bother about looking for any, until now. I managed to find out result that could fit the bill. Learnoutloud.com, it's a website for audio and video learning, I managed to find one section in their website that is called E-magazine, it had an article on Podcasting ! Cheers !

Now, for the WWW site, this was easy. However I had to pick the one most relevant to my search topic. Found articles on Ezine Articles, ars technica, a blog on RSS and podcasting trends and learning circuits which had an article named: "Trend: Podcasting in Academic and Coporate Learning". I can easily use all of them.

Later on, I managed to find a personal blog by a CEO of AdaptiveBlue, in his post that I found, He discussed about on whether podcasting will survive. His post received many comments from the community, his post also shows that he has done his research on podcasting.

Lastly, for the Organisational site, I found a site by WAOE, World Association for Online Education. They had an article with references on the usefulness on podcasting for students.

That's all for this lesson, I'm behind time on my blogging, so I'll be blogging more on one day rather then over a series of weeks, hopefully I can catch up and stop slacking off !