For this week lesson, there will be no physical lesson conducted for EIR. So how is attendance taken? Very good question! This blog post explains it all. The attendance is taken through this blog post. So what did we do for the lesson? We were given the chance to interact with HK PolyU students on Second Life.
Initially, I was quite worried about the meeting with HK students as I was afraid that no one would want to talk to me, or that there will be language barriers. But upon finding my "partner", I realise that it was actually a fun experience as we shared a lot of different experience with each other
My partner, his name is Adam. His nationality is from China, but he went to HK for studies. With regards to the first week of EIR, he told me that he himself like to read alot of books. And being IT savvy like most of his classmates, he purchases book online through www.taobao.com. Adam feels that by getting a product online, the product will be cheaper and it will be more convenient. He also did mention that a lot of his peers go to www.taobao.com to get their desired product.
I also did questioned him about how would he be able to stay in contact with new friends he had meet. He replied that he would take down their msn and email. This is what we did. We exchanged each other's email and msn. He was pretty nice, in a sense that we shared a similiar interest in IT.
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What I liked best about this experience would be that it is VERY rare for a student to interact with students from oversea. The only way for you to get interacted with other students is to go for OCP and etc. But through Second Life, we are able to expose ourself to students from all over the world. At the same time, observing your behavior and mannerism I feel that it is necessary even if we are meeting people in real life. Adam was pretty amazed when I mention that eBay.com is one of the most popular eShopping site in Singapore. Most of his peers will visit www.taobao.com. I learnt that through online experience, we are able to mingle with students outside Singapore. This will actually allow better understanding of another country or school culture. We also talked a little bit about the difference between HK society and Singapore society. The most challenging experience I had was that trying to get a HK students to talk to. I had quite a hard time looking for a HK student, as no tags were indicated about an avatar's nationality. But all was good when I managed to find a partner.
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