Think (e-Portfolio)
1. Which sites do you visit regularly?
Make a list (4~5 is fine). Before you began this course,
what did you do (or still do) to keep yourself up to date
on new content posted to your favourite sites?
What I will go usually is
cnet.japan
makezine.jp http://markezine.jp/
http://www.nicovideo.jp/
manowahch http://www.j-cast.com/mono/
monometro.jp http://www.monometro.jp/

before i toka ethis class i some went these sites
on weekend and see the contents ranking which is more used
by more users.


Explore (e-Portfolio)
1. Websites that display a button similar to the ones here
on the right have an RSS feed that you can subscribe to.
Visit a few of the sites that you listed above (Think step).
Look over each site carefully, can you find an RSS button?
You might need to scroll down the page, and you will need to
look carefully if it is a 'busy' page. Which of your favourite
sites provide an RSS feed?
cnet japan i like best.

Write RSS next to each of these sites
in your list. Which ones don't?
monometro and http://www.nicovideo.jp/
does not have RSS button.


Can you think why some sites do not?
i supoose that monometro does not have the RSS
because i is promotaed by person not by company and
that site does not indent to get more and more readers
to enhance the media value.
On theother hand http://www.nicovideo.jp/
does not have RSS because it is too radically
updated and can not chatch up with the all infomation
I suppose.


2. How to collect information automatically.
Please watch this video that explains more
about RSS and how to set up Google Reader,
RSS is the tool to catch up with the infomation
which is always updated and change.
i make a page in google/readers and
I can collect my favorites site's latest topic an it.


Do
1. (ROW) SCICU set up. Please do these things:
a) Get Google Reader
i made it.

b) Subscribe to the following sites:
* Your favourite sites with RSS feeds, i.e. from Think above
I add three site wihch have RSS.
* Your classmates' e-Portfolios
I add three people's e-portfolio, Yuki's ,ken's and richika's,

* SCICU class Research Collection (i.e. items tagged 'scicu' saved and shared at Delicious)
I added it.

You might also like to subscribe to:
* Word of the day * Grammar Girl * Japan Times

2. (e-Portfolio) Personal Research. Spend sometime now searching
for some sites related to a particular personal interest connected
to study or leisure activities. Add the name of your topic to your
Record of Work for Lesson 5. Try to find 4~5 excellent web pages,
which also have an RSS button. Please select your sites critically,
the resources you choose should be genuinely useful to you. Later,
you will select one of your sources and tell the class what it is,
where you found it, and why you chose it.
http://se-rusu1.com/
http://it.nikkei.co.jp/
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/


Please try out 2 or 3
(or more) of these search and reference sites, as well as Google.
It is useful to learn to use different search engines, which work
differently and return different results and present the results
to you in different ways. As a researcher you need to be familiar
with range of search tools, even if Google remains your first choice.
I used
KartOO Squidoo ChaCha BlinkBits
billobe yaho google livedoor

Save and share your research. Save the most useful and interesting
sites you find to Delicious by tagging each web page with 'scicu',
this will mean that your discoveries will appear in the Class Web Box.
Please also note that you should post a minimum 20 resources during
the course to our shared research collection maintained at Delicious.
As outlined in Course Information, this is worth 5% of your
total score for SCICU