Practical 3

Resource 1: http://www.commercialalert.org/alcoholsnyder.pdf

Purpose of resource : personal.

Reasons :
-The topic that I have done for practical 2 is discussing the developments of alcoholism amongst youths. Therefore, the resource that I found is a personal news article about the effects of alcohol exposure on drinking among youth, which is a piece of information on the effects of alcoholic among youth.
-The reason that I think it is a personal resource is because the author left his name and education level at the end of his article.
-There is the date of when he had done the article inside the article.


Resource 2: http://opencrs.cdt.org/rpts/RS22636_20070402.pdf

Purpose of resource : __Information_

Reasons :

-The first reason why I think that the purpose of this resource is an information is that this article gives us facts on the number of youth age below 21 have alcoholic habits.
-The second reason is that this article has comments and opinions given by doctors and surgeon to tell us what they think and feel about the rising number of youth involving in alcohol.
-It also has number facts which estimated the price and amount of negative impacts on the society from the total number of youth drinking. Furthermore, it tells us about the causes and effects of youth when they are involved In alcohol.
-It also informs the public on how to prevent and improve the number of youth from rising in alcohol related matters.


Resource 3: http://www.epi.umn.edu/alcohol/facts/facthow.shtm

Purpose of resource : Advocacy

Reasons :

-First, the information is done by an organization which is the University of Minnesota. Therefore, I think that the organization wants to do something about the rising number of youths taking alcohol.
-Secondly, the website tells us many information on how the public can help the youth into giving up alcohol.
-Lastly, the main reason that I think the resource is an advocate is that it has many facts and survey done by the organization, which is trying to tell us that youth taking alcohol is very harmful and is trying to influence the public to support them to help lower the number of youth taking alcohol.

Practical week 4 and 5

Discuss the usage of 2-Factor Authentication in the banking industry.

Type of Search facility	Keywords used	URL of the resource	Comments on Search Results : -Size of hits? -Relevant results?
Search Engine Example used :	http://www.google.com.sg/ search?q=two+Factor+ Authentication+in+bank+&hl =en&start=10&sa=N Two Factor Authentication Bank	http://www.securitypark.co.uk/ article.asp?articleid=25068	Results 11 - 20 of about 1,340,000 for two Factor Authentication in bank . (0.10 seconds) Out of so many results, most of the first few results are relevant. It gives many related results based on my keywords. Some of the relevant results include the two factors authentication for banks and different kinds of online banking and company.
Meta Search Engine Example used :	http://www.metacrawler.com/ info.metac/search/web/two% 252BFactor%252B Authentication%252Bin%252 Bbank/1/20/1/-/0/-/1/1/1/1/1 /-/-/on6%25253A1195203291 364/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/- /-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/- /-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/0/417/top/-/ moderate/-/1 Two Factor Authentication Bank	http://www.securityfocus.com/ columnists/363	All Search Engines 1 - 20 of 53 All of the results are relevant. It gives results that both yahoo.com and google.com have. The relevant results includes the definitions of two factor authentication of banking and the solutions to solve phishing.
Subject Directory Example used :	http://search.yahoo.com /search;_ylt=A0oGkivSV T1HomUAyVpXNyoA?p= two+Factor+Authentication +in+bank+&fr=yfp-t501&ei =UTF-8&fp_ip=SG&rd=r1& meta=vc%3Dsg Two Factor Authentication Bank	http://www.comodo.com/ banking/twofactor.html	1-10 of 993,000 for two Factor Authentication in bank (About) - 0.36 sec Only some of the results are relevant. Some of the results are websites that have only one of the keyword. Some of the relevant results include reports from personal websites that gives information on the keywords.

The results of the three search facilities are almost the same because the keywords that I used are phrases and are quite specific.

Metacrawler.com gives more detailed because it combines both the search engine of google.com and subject directory, but it has lesser results than the google.com and yahoo.com.

Another differences is that both google.com and yahoo.com finds website using all the words that are typed in as the keywords while metacrawler.com used only one word that is typed as the keyword when finding results.

Yahoo.com may find some results that are same as the other two search facilities but the other results that it searches are not relevant. For example, when I typed the two factors authentications of bank, it gives me some results that are related to banks and not the two factor authentication.

Out of the three search facilities, google.com finds the results the fastest and gives quite relevant results.

Overall, I think that google.com has the best searching needs because it searches for the most relevant results and has many choices of websites from the result to choose from.

The results are based on the keywords that I wanted to find and gives not only a list of banks of two factor authentication but also online and banking related to two factor authentication.

Practical 2

Type of Website: Personal
Resource Name /URL:http://www.commercialalert.org/alcoholsnyder.pdf
Resource Description:This is an article done by someone telling us on some article on people aged below 21 taking alcohol with some statistic and graph on the growth of youth taking alcohol.

Type of Website:Organization
Resource Name /URL:http://opencrs.cdt.org/rpts/RS22636_20070402.pdf
Resource Description:This website is posted on the internet by an organization. It tells us about the causes and effects of youth taking alcoholic. It also shows the public how to prevent youth from taking alcohol.

Type of Website:Subject-based
Resource Name /URL:http://www.epi.umn.edu/alcohol/facts/facthow.shtm
Resource Description:This is a website about the findings and facts done by University of Minnesota. It tells us about the survey of where and how youth get alcohol from.

Practical 1.

Topic: Sports
Aspect: Soccer

Categories: Newsgroups and discussion list
Resource Name /URL: www.soccernet.com/
Resource Description: Soccer news from around the world. There are discussions about the latest soccer transfers and news in this website.

Categories: Electronic journals and magazine
Resource Name /URL:http://www.matchmag.co.uk/
Resource Description:This is the best soccer magazine I have seen so far. It has very interesting soccer pictures and articles. Every episode of the magazine is never dull.

Categories: Multi-media source
Resource Name /URL:www.tribalfootball.com/
Resource Description:This website updates almost every 3 hour. I can read what happens around the soccer world.


Categories:WWW site
Resource Name /URL:www.goals.com/
Resource Description:I visit this website as it mainly displays the highlight of the soccer news.

Similarities- We are researching on aspects that are popular around the world.

Differences- My partner searches for music while I search for sports.

Favourite Websites

Being a soccer manic, my favourite website has got something to do with soccer. The soccer website that i visit almost everyday is www.tribalfootball.com/. This website tells me about all the speculations and facts about soccer league from the top three league in the world.

The second website that i visit often is www.wikipedia.org/. In this website, one can find almost everything that he wants to know, ranging from movie information, soccer, IT- related information etc..

Personal background

My name is Bernard Chua. I am currently studying in the IIT school in Temasek Polytechnic. The course that i am enrolled in is the Diploma in Cyber and Digital Security.

I have a family of four which includes my father, mother and an elder brother who is currently serving his national service.

Just like any other poly kids, I have ordinary hobbies which includes watching and playing soccer ,watching television programmes and playing computer games. My favourite soccer team is Manchester United which I supported since i was primary 5.

I joined UIR because since this is my last CDS of my poly life, i wanted to have a more more relaxed CDS.

That's all i have to say. thank you and goodbye!