Thursday, December 30, 2010

Task 2b Google Maps

There is not much too say about what I did at the marked places. I ate and shopped with my family at the marked places, occasionally meeting up with relatives and visiting their house afterwards.
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Monday, December 27, 2010

Wishes on the Wall

The thing about Wallwisher is that everyone's thoughts and opinions are all gathered up into one place , allowing for convenience, having all the opinions at hand. However, the setback of using Wallwisher is that it strictly sticks to the 'You are writing on a sticky' notion, which prevents it from achieving its full potential.Messages may not get through clearly, which requires the writer of a sticky to spread out his/her message across a few stickies.
Wallwisher can be used to gather up everyone's ideas, opinions and thoughts for say, maybe a class project.

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Online Applications

I am familiar with Google Chrome, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Windows Live, Youtube, Google Apps and Beemp3.
The URLs are:
Google Chrome:  http://www.google.com/chrome/index.html?hl=en&brand=CHMB&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-sk&utm_medium=ha
Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/
Twitter:  http://twitter.com/
Wikipedia:  http://www.wikipedia.org/
Windows Live:  https://login.live.com/login.srf?wa=wsignin1.0&rpsnv=11&ct=1293425973&rver=6.1.6206.0&wp=MBI&wreply=http:%2F%2Fmail.live.com%2F%3Frru%3Dhome%26livecom%3D1&lc=1033&id=251248&cbcxt=hom&mkt=en-US
Youtube:  http://www.youtube.com/
Google Apps:  http://www.google.com/apps/
Beemp3:  http://beemp3.com/

I like Facebook the best, as I can chat and stay connected with my friends and also play Facebook games to pass the time.

Activity part 2a

1.(Map provided shows public transport.)

2.GoogleMaps also provides the time it takes to travel for each segment of the journey and the 'Leave Now', 'Depart At' and 'Arrive By' selections to plan ahead and find out the timings of public transport to make travelling easier and convenient.

3.GoogleMaps is useful but it should not be too relied upon as the data given may not be correct and there may be shorter routes that can be taken that are not provided in the available routes selection. Also, GoogleMaps also lags at times, which makes it rather inconvenient sometimes.

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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

When I started blogging it occurred to me, 'Wow, I do tend to drift off course and write more than I have to!' But in the end, the blogging experience was okay, not too boring, but not too exciting,either.
I guess it can be used in SST for blogging about their first day in school, camps, stuff they have learnt, what they have found and what they have experienced, along the way.
Yes, that picture represents my feelings when I saw that I had entered SST.If I had not made it,I would have felt extremely lost and not know what to do,like Kate in Catalyst where she applies to MIT and fails, if I got it right.If SST had not accepted me, I would be lost and not know which school to apply to, which makes me this happy.It's easy to imagine, that guy is me and that piece of paper is the letter confirming my post in SST.