Lesson4:Delicious - A Personal & Social Study Tool

Think
How do you currently save and store favorite Web pages? What provisions do you make to be able to access them whenever and wherever you need them?

I currently use several ways to save and store my favorite Web pages depends on how often I need to access. For example, bookmark toolbar of Firefox Portable, RSS reader, social bookmark service called "Hatena bookmark" offered by "Hatena Corporation", and Google mail. Mainly I use bookmark toolbar for saving my everyday-used Web pages such as Gmail, RSS reader, w3, Alc(online simple Japanese-English dictionary), and Weblio(online Japanese thesaurus). I also found that it is useful for me to put not full name but simple icon of these bookmark on toolbar.

Explore
What other ways can you think of to publicize your Delicious username so that others might access what you know? What are benefits can you identify in participating in an open knowledge network such as Delicious?

Maybe adding Delicious username on the profile of "mixi" can be another way.
Delicious is good for not only establishing new relationships with others who have same interests, but also for rebuilding relationship with old friends. It enables us to discover other dimensions and various interests of old friends which can not be showed easily in daily life.

Explain
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
It is needed for using Delicious effectively to develop skills to choose appropriate tags, and to search Web pages and persons who have same interests within Delicious.

2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
Delicious can help us to organize bookmarks, to build and reinforce human networks, and to inspire new interests.

3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
I am not sure yet about professional use of Delicious, but the system of tag must be convenient to find and organize a lot of information for academic writing.

4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
I found that Delicious is more useful than "Hatena bookmark" for academic use due to its worldwide popularity in various academic field.