We had our very first official lesson as a class due to some previous misunderstanding with the lesson timetable. For our first practical, the class learnt how to identify the 5 different purposes of online information sources, 'information, advocacy, news, business/marketing, entertainment'.
We had to use any online search engine of our choice to gather up information about our chosen topics, mine being the trends of spending habits of youths. 'Google' is my preferred search engine as it is one of the most common and recognized search engines on the web.
For the practical, we had to identify a specific source for each category. Online information can be provided in different forms like journals/e-Magazines, blogs, discussion forums and organisational websites. We had to find information related to our topics and categorize them into their sources, after which we had to identify their purposes.
This excercise is benificial to us as it defines clearer understanding of where our information comes from and whether they are reliable or not, helping us in our research, which is crucial to us design students as it is the early steps of the design process.
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