Lesson 4:Delicious-A Personal and Social Study Tool

Lesson 4:Delicious -A Personal and Social Study Tool

Yamawaki Masatoshi

Think
1How much research did you do on the web.
a 5 years ago
In this time, I barely used the web. I guess that that was less than 10 percent of my life. I just used it to research the time of train.
b 2 years ago
In this time, I was busy on studying for the entrance exam for ICU, so I almost did not use the web. I just used it for researching the information of ICU. That was 3 percent of my life.
c Now
Now I often use the web. It is 50 percent of my life. I used it for researching the documents, communicating with friends in Facebook, and looking the video.
2
I usually add them to the bookmarks.
3
I would put it in my e-portfolio. Or I would send them to the others with e-mail.

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Do
Delicious Bookmark is very useful item. You can access from anywhere and anytime since it is online. You can also share the websites and benefit each other. It is pretty easy to get "Delicious Bookmark." Go to the http://delicious.com. Then go to the free account and Sing up. Also it is pretty easy to use. When you add the websites to your bookmark, you just need to push the "Tag" botton. When you save the websites, you need to add the keywords or tags. The reason is this. when you have 100 websites in the bookmark, it is very hard to find the websites you want to use. However you can squeeze the websites and easily find the websites you want to use by typing the keyword or tags you added.

Explain
1 The main skills needed to use Delicious are three things. One is the skill to sign up. It is very easy and simple. One just needs to make the username and password. Second is the skill to tag. This is also easy. One just has to push the tag button and save the websites one wants to add.. In saving the websites, one should add the keywords and tags. Later this would make it easier to find the websites you want to use. Third is the skill to share. To share the websites with the others, one needs to add their username to his or her Delicious. Moreover ,in shareing, one can send the websites to the others. The others can see them in inbox.
2 Social Bookmarking makes me possible to access to the bookmark anywhere and anytime. This helps me a lot because I can open the bookmark even if I forget to bring the USB.Also, Social Bookmarking helps me find the best websites because this social bookmarking indicates how many people access to the each websites. I can see which websites are the most popular and can choose the most popular ones. Moreover Social Bookmarking makes me able to share the websites with the others. This makes us benefit each other.
3 One can add the people such as friends, classmates and teaschers to Delicious. One can share the websites with the people whom you added. If one find the good learning websites, he or she can shares it with the others. The others can use the better websites. In this way, they can benefit each others. Moreover, in Delicious, as i said in the sentences above, one can see which websites are the most popular. Throgh this, one can find the best websites. There are a lot of language websites. It is difficult to know which is the best website. However, thorogh Delicious, one can find the best one. Therefore one can study the languages(or math, history and so on) in the best learning websites.
4
I learned many things from Social Bookmarking. These benefit me a lot. Especially, thanks to Social Bookmarking, I learned to find the good learning websites. Before taking this course, I was trying to learn Chinese in the website. However i did not know which websites are the most benefitial. Therefore I was about to forget about it. But ,throgh this, now i can find the best websites. I really appreciate to Social Bookmarking.

Barabasi:The First Link

Barabasi: The First Link

Yamawaki Masatoshi

1
Two factors were critical to Paul's success in spreading the Christian message. One is theology. Theology made the christianity stable and rational. This helped the Christianity in spreading.Second is the social network. In missioning the Christianity, Paul did not wander randamly, but reached out to the biggest communities of his era, to the people and places in which the faith could germinate and spread most effectively.

2
It could happen because people in the modern society demand the religion to complement themselves. In the modern society, many people are satisfied physically, but many people are also not satisfied mentally. People often suffere from stress, pressure and so on. Not small amount of people get diseases from the suffering, and they sometimes kill themselves. To ease these suffering, people demand the religion. This is illustrated by the evidence that many people ,especially young people, often accept the invitation to the religions including cults. Christianity is obviously one of them. Moreover the social network is much more useful now because of the internet. So Christianity's success could happen again.
3
1The maps which have been made of our interconnectivity are maps of the internet, maps of companies connecteed by trade or ownership, maps of interactions between spiecies in ecosystem, and maps of gene working together in a cell.
2 I like to see the map of human relationship in ICU because from that I can guess what kind of person one who is on map is.
4
1Amazingly simple and far-reaching natural laws govern the structure and evolution of all the complex networks that surround us.
2Yes, I am surprised because every networks share the common things. If you find one law, you can apply to other things. It is very interesting.
5The author defined the nature of most scientific research in the 20th century as "Reductionism." Ruductionism is the way to grasp the whole of one substance by dividing the substance into the minimum. This ways was really dominant in 20th century. However, we are as far as we have ever been from understanding the nature as a whole. Indeed, the reassembly turned out to be very difficult because they are very complex. The components can fit in so many different ways. They consist of huge number of other pieces of complex universal puzzles.
6
Babarasi predict that the network will be the new focus of scientific research in the coming era. I agree with him because now the networks are everywhere. Almost everything is connected with each other thanks to the network such as universities, communities, countries, companies, schools, and so on. Everything is so connected deeply that loss of one thing might affect the others strongly. For example, economy. If one country go into depression, it affects the other countries which are in the same networks. There are a lot of things which are smilar to this matter. So if the scientific research could succeed in resolving the puzzle of networks, that would contribute to our society largely.

Lesson 3:Blog as e-Portfolio

Do: My Work
1Aikido
I do Aikido. I started Aikido just one year ago because I am interested in "Ki."There is the picture that I am wearing an uniform in the right side of the display. This was the time when i showed Aikido's military exercises in the ICU festival.
2Theatre
I belong to Kogasha which is the acting group. I already participated in three plays: Ashita Kimi ni Aitai, Kodomo no Asobi, and Taiyo no To. In these three plays, I acted as a main character. The picture which is in the right side of display is the picture of the play: Kodomo no Asobi.
3Activities
I like outside activities. I often plan BBQ for my ELP section. The picture in the right side is the picture of Section CG BBQ. Also i like to eat foreigh foods. I often eat foreign foods with my friends. In the pictures in the right side, it shows the times when we went to eat Mexican foods and Russian Foods. Moreover I like to walk in the mountain. I often go to the mountain to walk. The reason why I like to walk in the mountain is that the atmosphere in the mountain me relaxed. The picture in the right side is the one I took in the mountain.

4My Academic Work
Last year in ELP Class, I wrote about "What is beauty."I definted "beauty" in comparing beauty in Edo and beauty in this modern society.

Lesson 3:Blog as e-Portfolio

Lesson 3: Blog as e-Portfolio

Masatoshi Yamawaki

Think
Before taking this course, I showed my evidence of what I knew and what I could do through papers and interviews. To enter ICU, I send the paper, in which I wrote about my information including why I want to go to ICU, what I did while I am in the high school, what I am going to do in ICU, what I am going to do after graduating ICU, and my qualifications. In addition to this paper, I was interviewed because they wanted to know my personality and the ability to express myself. Not only ICU. When I applied for a part-time job or volunteer, I had to do the same things as what I did for ICU. Furthermore, when I met new people, I had to introduce my-self, which some important informations might be missed.

Explore
I need an e-portfolio because it is a very useful tool.E-portfolio is the collection of one's work which can be used for planing career, applying for a job or to college, and documenting what one has learned. E-portfolio can make links between employers or colleges and him or her by putting informations about him or her into e-portfolio because employers and colleges can know what kind of person he or she is through this tool. This can get rid of extra-works: sending applications and interviewing. This makes it efficient. Moreover, by documenting what one has learned and what he or she has done, this builds confidence in him or her. One would to be surprised when he or she sees what he or she has learned and done for years. Needless to say, this also can be memories. This can help one remember what he or she has learned or done. Furthermore, e-portfolio is very useful in planing his or her career because one can put a lot of informations including his or her information.
In addition to this, since e-portfolio is an online tool, it won't be lost and be cluttered. Also, one can recombine informations easily. Finally, in e-portfolio, one can express oneself through not only words but videos, pictures, audios and so on. This can make it more effective to express oneself since it is very difficult to express oneself through only words.

Explore 2
1 The history of my career from elementary school to the University
2 My accomplishments
3My experiences
I want to add many things to e-portfolio, but especially I want to add three things. One is my history of my career from the elementary school to the university. The reason is that by writing these informations people who went to the same school as me can be familiar with me. Second is my accomplishments: Tofel, Toeic, and Eiken because these things can show my ability more effectively. Third is my experience. Every year, I teach the elementary school students how to play sports such as socer, baseball, and Dodgeball. From these kind of information, people can guess what kind of person I am.
Explore3
Compared the e-portfolios with the resumes, there are a lot of advantages in e-portfolio. One is that one can see one's informations easily. By making the lists that tell one's information, it becomes more clear to see. Second is one can tell one's informations in various ways. While one can tell one's informations in not many ways such as only words and pictures in resumes, in e-portfolio one can tell one's information through videos, pictures, internet link, and of course words. Third is one can tell one's informations as much as you want. Since in e-port folio one can make lists of your informations, one can put a lot of informations. However there are also disadvantages in e-portfolio. One of the main disadvantages is that there are too much informations in e-potfolio. Compared to the resumes, there are enormous informations in e-portfolio. To the readers, it is sometimes inconvinient to see e-portfolio because of too much informations. In contrast to this, the resumes are well sumed up and easier to see.

Explain
1 There are three main skills needed to use my e-portfolio. One is the skill to put pictures. In e-portfolio, one can put a lot of pictures to express oneself more effectively. Therefore the skill to put pictures to my e-portfolio is needed. Second is the skill to organize the blog. In e-portfolio, one can decorate the blog and make it more attractive. To make it more attractive, I changed the title of my e-portfolio, put pictures, and so on. Third is the skill to express my-self effectively. In e-portfolio, people can put their informations. In putting informations, people have to think what informations would be more effective in attracting people's interests. Therefore I ponder on what informations I should add.

2 E-portfolio made it possible to work at any time and any place without USB if there is a cpmputer. There were many times I could not work on the essay because I often forget to bring a USB. There were also even times I had to work on the essay from the beginning again because I lost a USB or a USB lost the datas. However, in e-portfolio, one does not have to worry about these matters because e-portfolio is online. Now I do not have to worry about forgeting to bring it or losing it. Moreover e-portfolio made it possible to express myself much more effectively. In e-portfolio, one can put a lot of informations. One can tell people one's informations through videos, pictures, of course words and so on. I put a lot of pictures. In one of these days, I will put videos,too. Therefore e-portfolio gave me a lot of benefits. However there is one thing which is unconvinient as for e-portfolio. It is that in Japan not many people are using e-portfolio or even recognize it. Maybe ,in the United States, e-portfolio is very useful in expressing oneself for applying jobs or to the universities. Though, in Japan, it is not really useful in using it for them.
3 One can make the link list in e-portfolio. By adding the other people's e-portfolio to the link list, one can see easily the other people's e-portfolio. Moreover, by adding learning resorces such as ICU data bases to the link list, one can access easily to the learning resorces.
4 Through creating e-portfolio, I learned the skill to express myself effectively. By now, I do not have much chances to express myself especially through the online devices. However, through this, I learned to express myself effectively. From now on, I want to learn to express myself more effectively than now.