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E-learning week for Practical 7

My My..It has been ages since i last updated this blog of mine.This is because this week(Practical 7) for UIR is e-learning week and we had to do a wiki post in UIR-rawkz.Hang on!Before elaborating on this week activity,i have to tell you guys that i did badly for my UIR test.Ouhh well..last minute of going through the pages of UIR notes and glancing through the words.heh!There were no classes on Friday but unfortunately we had to do our wiki's though.

Back to lesson!I did my wiki entry on "Discuss the impact of drugs on Youth".Firstly,i did my research and findings on impact on drugs on youth and found a few websites but only took two resources.We have to state the resources used after elaborating on the resources of websites we have found and lastly,the summary of resouces.I found out a lot actually about the impact or aftermath youth will experience after taking drugs.

There are short-term effect and long-term effects.

The short-term effects are:

feeling "rush"
Depressed respiration
Clouded mental functioning
Nausea and vomiting
Suppression of pain
Spontaneous abortion

The long-term effects are:

Addiction
diseases (e.g., HIV/AIDS & Hepatitis B and C)
Infectious
Collapsed veins
Bacterial infections
Abscesses
Infection of heart lining and valves
Arthritis and other rheumatologic problem

Other than finding out that all these effects,i've found out that a person who has taken drugs, in addition to the physical factors involved, retains mental image pictures of those drugs and their effects. Mental image pictures are three-dimensional color pictures with sound and smell and all other perceptions, plus the conclusions or speculations of the individual. .

It is very useful in knowing all the problems that a drug addict face.If you encounter any of your friends having these symptoms,please offer them your help.:)

BACK TO WIKI!

After doing an entry on wiki,i have learnt that in wiki,we are allowed to edit other people's post by pressing a button 'easy edit'.This is an easy way to edit but it has a disadvantage as others can edit or even delete your hardwork by not allowing us to know who deleted it.

Wiki has a more advantages than disadvantages as I strongly think that it is a good way to post our discussion on wiki as others are able to learn and know more facts on what they do not know by reading our post.Not only it is easy for us,it is easy for Ms Farida to check who have done their entries by checking one webpage.Others can also edit our grammatical and spelling grammer so our enrty will look presentable.