How Malaysians Utilize Internet As A Learning Tool?

[chenchow]

With broadband penetration in Malaysia is growing fast, I am curious to know what are fellow Malaysians, especially fellow ReComers (who are the younger generations with internet access) do with internet. Do you utilize internet as a learning tool? Do you utilize internet to search for information/knowledge that you need? Do you use internet to keep up with the latest happenings in the country and the world? What are you utlizing internet for?

Perhaps, we could share in a simple percentage ratio, how much time you are using for each purpose while you are online? And what I mean to survey is time that you have full flexibility online to decide what you would do.

Email: 25%
ReCom: 15%
News: 15%
E-Learning: 15%
Find Info: 10%
Chat: 10%
Meeting: 5%
Leisure (Friendster, Facebook etc): 5%

And I hope to have this thread for us to share how we can utilize internet as a learning tool. A good way to start would be via ReCom Elearning, where you would have access to lecture notes from many universities in the world. And of course, you should utilize Wikipedia as an essential source of information, as well as Google.

[iQing]

I fully utilize You Tube as my learning tool. I learn a lot about anime storyline and oversea video parody.

In such a conservative country like Malaysia I find internet to be the best place for sex education. :)

[iQing]

Email: 25%
ReCom: 15%
News: 15%
E-Learning: 15%
Find Info: 10%
Chat: 10%
Meeting: 5%
Leisure (Friendster, Facebook etc): 5%

Email :
I learn to delete endless spam mails... some of them are from the fake chenchow

ReCom :
lotsa member bashing and JPA threads

News :
There are a lot of fake stories... worse still those fake stories are bad news to put people in fear or bad mood.

E-Learning :
I dont think it is working. quite disorganised

Find--Info :
You Tube rocks. I look for informmation at ebay.com and amazon.com

Chat :
I find girl chatters interesting. Usually I provide information there.

Meeting :
what meeting? you mean on forum ? if meeting with friends SMS can hadle the task very well

Leisure :
again, You Tube rox

[juventus]

I have learned tonnes of skills using the Internet. I learned how to play the guitar, html codes and some French.

All with an Internet connection.

I also learned mathematical formulae, read large amounts of free online books..whoa! Just by plonking my butt in front of the computer.

I can't exactly state how much time I spent checking my emails, recom, latest news and others. I multi task a lot. Firefox has been my saviour for introducing multi tabs!! Thanks Mozilla.

Well, that's about it.

[iQing]

internet is a great learning tool because we can buy books online.... :P

therefore it is a good tool to promote learning :)

[thegoz]

the internet is an awesome tool of learning. I've learned a lot from wikipedia. Without wikipedia, I will never get 1A for English coz I've learned many of their style of writing and uber-complex terms.

Then, I think most of us are aware about illegal ebooks/emagz. I learn a lot from that too. Coz, first I read the ebooks, than I borrow at the library (coz it's nicer to read papers than words on the screen, especially for books with 500+ pages). No, I don't read the whole book. I just read some cool chapters. (hohoho, i'm such a geek).

And then there's all those super cool Malaysian forums like Recom. Issues discussed here are real issues instead of "Erra Fazira can't live with her husband" crap i get from some news. I'm more aware about the world/Malaysia thanks to portals such as Recom.

[WinnieH]

these days... no schooling it's 50%. basically whenever i'm not watching tv, eating, sleeping, taking a nap, bathing, chatting on the phone, or playing sports or doing whatsoever.

school time, that would be twice a week.... each time, maybe the most is 3 hours. i guess when i go stpm, i'll only online on sunday...

[iQing]

internet addiction is cool :)

[WinnieH]

internet addiction is cool :)

nah it kinda freak me out. sometimes when im watchin tv, i'll think bout my email box, or my friendster account, or recom. lol.

[thegoz]

internet addiction is cool :)

it's cool when you have internet connection. You i had a problem* with my internet connection and i was unable to use the internet for 3 weeks straight. Damn... I was like some psycho. CC sux coz they usually care more about the gaming shit instead of the internet connection. Then, I had to go to my dad's office. Hehehe :oops:

But yeah, now i have my internet back. So i'm ok now.

p/s: sorry to be a bit off topic right there

[youngyew]

I use a relatively large proportion of time online in email, recomming and learning stuff. I am an e-mail freak, so I always leave my gmail open and read whenever there's a new email. As for recomming, it's both entertaining and intellectually-rewarding. For online learning, I have been using the Internet since 10 years ago, and recalling how much I have learnt through the net, what I can say is it's simply amazing. I can still remember how Internet has evolved from the era of 33.6K Modem, 56K modem, ICQ (doubt whether new Internet users today know what it is), Yahoo, online gaming, personal homepage craze (I learnt HTML and created a tacky personal homepage), to Wikipedia, online journals, online lectures, blogs etc. Today the Internet is such an infinitely rich resource of information, and I can't help but to think how I managed to live without it.

[WinnieH]

I use a relatively large proportion of time online in email, recomming and learning stuff. I am an e-mail freak, so I always leave my gmail open and read whenever there's a new email. As for recomming, it's both entertaining and intellectually-rewarding. For online learning, I have been using the Internet since 10 years ago, and recalling how much I have learnt through the net, what I can say is it's simply amazing. I can still remember how Internet has evolved from the era of 33.6K Modem, 56K modem, ICQ (doubt whether new Internet users today know what it is), Yahoo, online gaming, personal homepage craze (I learnt HTML and created a tacky personal homepage), to Wikipedia, online journals, online lectures, blogs etc. Today the Internet is such an infinitely rich resource of information, and I can't help but to think how I managed to live without it.

yeah true. when i first online back in 2003... ( i wasnt allowed to be on the internet before that cause my sister was a complete selfish freak) but in year 2003, i dunno whats got into her, she started to teach me how to online. and i first chatted in icq... then msn.... then i play games in internet..... especially pools in yahoo games....... then it was roleplaying in harry potter sites........ then it was icq chatroom... and friendster... and through friendster i learnt bout html.... and after that i blog in xanga... and now i'm in a forum called recom......