Lesson4: blog post - Think, Explore, Explain

Think:
How do you currently save and store favourite webpages? What provisions do you make to be able to access them whenever and wherever you need them?
At now I use browser bookmarks to save and store favorite webpages. I think it is very useful if I can access them whenever and wherever I want.

Explore:
What other ways can you think of to publicise 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?
The ways that I can publicise my Delicious username is to show it on mixi page, to tell other people orally, or to send e-mail about my username.
The benefits of participating in an open knowledge network is that I can know what others are interested in, and share the information about it. In the same way I can tell other people what I am interested in, and ask them opinions about it.

Explain:
Write a post reflecting on Delicious with reference to the four Key Questions.

Social Computing Key Questions:
1. What are the main skills needed to use social software?
To download a tool and set up it.

2. What are the affordances (what the software makes possible, what it impedes)?
Social Bookmark enable us to share personal bookmarking. Therefore, people in one group can share the information.

3. How can the technology be used to network professionally and connect users to learning resources?
To share important and interesting information, then people can discuss it.

4. What learned skills and understandings may promote your development as an effective learner in the digital age?
After knowing this, I became able to carry my bookmarks with me, and to use them wherever and whenever I want. Also, I became able to organize my bookmarks easily.