.Reflection for Lesson 2
? 11:51 PM, Monday, May 5, 2008
Second lesson for UIR. We were have to decide the research topic for our portfolio. I was a bit frickle-minded cos I couldn't decide whether to research on cancer or AIDS. My final decision was to research on the development on AIDS . The reason for choosing it is because I have read an article from Times magazine years ago about the development of AIDS in India. And I was totally shocken by the rapidly increasing number of the HIV affected people there, especially the poor kids. Sad.. Though it's been ages since I read that acticle, I could still vividly remember the content of the article. I guess it really left a deep impression on me.
During the lesson, we were also introduced to three different categories of the information resources, namely, Discussion Forum, WWW Site and Electronic Journal or Magazine. After reading through the lecture notes, I gained a better understanding of these categories. The next thing we need to do is to search for information based on the selected research topic, at least one for the three different categories.
Discussion Forum --> Well, nobody post an entry about the topic there, so I write a short paragraph and posted in
Channel News Asia Discussion Forum, and managed to get some replies. Another discussion forum I visited and posted a comment is
HealthBoards. It is a community that provide a unique one-stop peer support community with over 150 message boards on various diseases, conditions, and health topics.
WWW Site -->
AIDS.ORG. This website helps prevent HIV infections and to improve the lives of those affected by HIV and AIDS by providing education and facilitating the free and open exchange of knowledge at an easy-to-find centralized website.
Electronic Journals and Magazine --> Journal of HIV/AIDS from
Library of the national Medical Society. An online medical library, allows us to search for medical related journals and books.
There was this article called " A story about AIDS" that really moved me emotionally. I posted a comment there, in hope to increase public awareness and at the same time encourage the HIV/AIDS infected people to carry on to live their lives to the fullest. Sometimes, it's not the disease that kills but the discrimination.
Move on. What more could I say?
Quote to share:
"Life is not about how hard you can hit.
Life is about how much you can get hit and moving forward!"
