Lesson 4: A Personal & Social Study Tool

Think
1.
a) 5 years ago, 0-10% : I was a first-year-student in high school. At that time, I did not have much opportunity to search something on the Web, since what I needed to search or study was almost in my textbooks. When I needed to search something, I went to library. b) 2 years ago, 10-30%: I was a third-year-student in high school. Almost as same as 5 years ago, I did not make full of the Web except for some current news. In class of politics, I needed to research current political problems, so I used the Web. c) Now, 80-90%: I am a sophomore at ICU. I got my own laptop, and have used every single day. It is not too much to say that I cannot do my work without computer. With academic works, we cannot use only data from the Web, but recently, we can read news articles and books. Therefore, my use of the Web has become larger and larger.

2.
Usually, I bookmark those sites to my computer, or with my academic works, I always make a bibliography, which records titles, the data when I looked them, and addresses.


3.
Copying the URL address, and pasting it to the passage on e-mail is the most frequent way to share the information about the site.


Explore
17. Nagisa.scicu (Nagisa) : Wikipedia, Japan Times and Mango
c121657a (Masatoshi) : only Japan Times and Mango
Natsumiscicu09 (Natsumi) : only Japan Times and Mango


Do
Actually, to begin with, the first thing I was recognized again was that this Delicious bookmarking system goes with the website, not with the computer. Old bookmarking system was always with the computer. I have been bookmarking web pages normally without any acknowledgment that I was working with the online web page.. It was surprising for me when I was watching the presentation!!
Also, with the online bookmarking, we can share the sites we like to people in our network. In fact, I and Keita shared a website. Bookmarking with the computer does not make it possible to share the web pages, but with the online system, it is possible. I would like to share some useful pages with people in my network.
Moreover, we can create new tags when we bookmark and tag. I have used only common tags, such as language, education, french, and so on. But, the presentation showed that we can make any tags we like. However, it has a little bit of problems, too, to create new ones, because it takes some times to remember and coordinate them.



EXPLORE
1.
In order to use Delicious, basically we should be able to access on the Internet, of course. Also, we should have the skill to search the web sites we like, and put exact tags when we bookmark them, which makes useful when we look for the sites we need later on.

2.
With bookmarking socially, we can carry around our favorite sites only with own USB, since it does not bookmark with the computer. Also, we can share our favorite sites with people in network. In fact, Keita recommended a site, and I bookmarked it on my Delicious. It was very helpful.

3.
With Delicious, we can bookmark a lot of useful sites for academic works with tags. When we want to look for some specific things, we can look for them with tags only if we bookmark with some helpful explanation.

4.
I learned so much with bookmarking, as you could see through reading my answers. I would like to use this social bookmarking system in future for my academic works, and also for my daily life. I can bookmark recipes or blogs, and can organize my favorite sites with tags:)