Day 9
4th November ; Tuesday

Given some time in class in the morning to continue practical 8&9. Luckily Faridah came around to check our resources for the practical. The resource that I choose does not have enough information on my research topic. Hence I had to change to another resource. However comparing the 2 website,

1) http://www.mediafamily.org/facts/facts_effect.shtml (chosen resource)
2) http://cpj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/32/2/86

I would personally No. 2. As it is an online journal and it offers more reliable resources. However due to the lack of information on my research topic, No 1 will be a better resource for me to conduct my evaluation.



My dream holiday The Palm Island.

It is located on the Jebel Ali coastal area of the emirate of Dubai. The reason for chosing the island as my ideal place for my dream holiday is because im fascinating by the way of constructing the island. 1 or 2 years back I've got the chance to watch a full documentary on National Geograhpy Channel on how the island was built. Being in the student in the architecture field, it is interesting to me to see the process and hardwork to build a building. Lets not say a whole man-made island. The new bridges which connect the islands to the mainland is one of the largest construction projects ever undertaken by man. wow.

Reclaiming the land.

From the above screenshot, I find that the arrangement of the content are well organised. The details about the ideal destination is placed in the middle of the website. As for the details (highlighted in red) are links for us as a tourist to explore and know more about the country.

Content wise, other then links telling us more about the place, there is also a map located on the bottom right hand corner of the screen. This will enable us to locate and understand more about the location we are going. Search tool is also provided to aid use in finding the place we want to visit by just typing into the Search tool box.

Melissa Yong
Environment Design