Lesson4:Social Bookmarking

Think!
--The environment of my research before I have known the PERSONAL & SOCIAL STUDY TOOL; Delicious--

1.
a) almost 0%. Most of the resources of my research were based on books.
b)about 30 %. 2 years ago, I have come to use the information of the internet. However, I did not get used to it and I also did not put much credit on it.
c)about 70%. Now I use the information of book as well as that of the internet though I separate these two type depends on the type of information which I want to collect.

2.
I would set the site homepage address as my bookmark on the tool bar or I publish that address into my blog.

3.
Before I have known the Delicious, I would only put the site on my blog to show my friends.

Explore! (17)
---Searching other classmates' Delicious bookmarking by using their user names.After that, make them into my network member and share the links with them.---

Working with this simple task, I realized the true usefulness of Delicious so much.It enables us to 1)share the bookmarks and 2)send them links like a present!I was so impresed. This tool give people huge impact on their research project or some academic workings, too.


Do!
---The efficiency and usefulness of Delicious: rough answers of several presentations---

I have noticed and understood three big points of Delicious which makes it so useful and social: book marking system, tagging and sorting system, and system of sharing by network. First one, book marking system, by which users can pile up their favorite or important site into the Delicious, is enable them to collect much information efficiently and smoothly. The second one, tagging and sorting system, is enable users to reach the very information directly without much effort and troubles. The last one, the system of sharing by network, is enable users to share the information with other people. We must realize the usefulness of this system when we do some group research and wish to share the same information with other member of the group. That small dream easily come true by just two clicking on the page of Delicious. By exporting one's information, someone's information become everyone's information! So social and useful!
As I said earlier, Delicious can contribute various situation and have the power of strong assistant in many environment as well.

Explain!
---Baced on SCICU Key questions, there are reflections of social bookmarking.---

1)What are the main skills needed to use Delicious?

---In order to use Delicious, its users are required the skill of judging whether the site they have found is worth bookmarking to Delicious or not. This is because their collection of bookmarking have high potential to be seen by thousand of other and unknown people. It can be harmful poisons as well as the useful resources. So the judging skill are highly needed.

2)What are the affordances of social bookmarking (what does it make possible, what does it impede)?

---In the process of the social bookmarking, the network can be the strong affordance. Through the millions of networks which is running all over the world, social bookmarking system can work more smoothly and can have its wideness in its function.

3)How can Delicious be used to network professionally and connect you to learning resources (including other learners)?

---This seems the most important points of using Delicious. using the sharing system, people can use Delicious as precisely sorted huge information library or exhibition which they can use and share those information freely. By entering the keywords or tags of researching topic, people can find various information on the screen.

4)What skills and understandings have you learned about social bookmarking that may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?

---Started using Delicious, I have come to realize its usefullness and perspectives of sociality. On the left side bar, I can click and jump to the bookmarks sites whenever I wish to see. At the same time, I have also realized that piling more and more bookmarks and sorting my own Delicious, and sharing many useful and interesting site with other peers and friends, or my family, I will be able to use and develop Delicious better: the more I use it, the better it will be and the more it will become useful.