Thoughts on today's library orientation

Hello guys I am Makko. I am not doing well recently but thank you all 2D for your kindness to worry about my health condition. I am going to be OK someday somehow.

Library orientation always teaches us the useful tools for writing academic essays. However, I have never used any of them. It is just because the idea of using these online tools does not come up in my mind when I am rushing to write papers. But now I think that this way of getting sources for my essay is really efficient because it saves my time from going to the library and also, there are big range of information so I will not bother not having enough sources, maybe... I will try to use them for my ARW essay this time.

As each group presented today in class, we can easily get citation from each online sources. I just thought that if we can get citation this easy, we do not need Zotero! To me, Zotero is too complicated and does not save my time; it even makes me spend extra time struggling to find out how to make use of it. So my conclusion for this blog is that I do not like Zotero. 

Sorry it was not really an interesting blog. See you next time. Byeee 

Result of my survey about favourite sports.

Hello, how are you doing? I just did a survey in R&P class and asked my classmates about their favourite sports. Here is the result.

Question 1
Do you like sports?

Question 2

Do you like team sports?

Question 3

How often do you play sports?

I also asked my classmates about their top three favourite sports. For this question, I expected many team sports for this question as there are more people who like team sports than individual sports. In result, many people answered team sports as their favourite sports but some individual sports such as swimming, jogging and dancing were still poplular. In my opinion, the good thing about individual sports is that you can start very easily and keep playing until you get very old. We can see that more than half of the people do not play sports often. Keeping doing sports is really good for one's future health, so I recommend my classmates to participate in sport circles.

I did not think doing a survey was this easy! I really enjoyed making questions. However, I regret a little because I think my survey might have been more interesting if I asked my classmates why they do/do not like team sports. I rushed too much when I made all the questions. I wish I had some more time to work on this assignment.

Please comment down below if you have any thoughts on my survey. Thank you for reading!

R&P homework 2014/09/08

R&P 2014/09/08 homework

Hello 2Ds! I have answered the questions that Dan gave us. Please comment if you have any thoughts on my summaries.

1.How do you think the tools or strategies that you will learn in this class will be helpful for your academic research?

  I am not sure how helpful it would be to use these online tools and strategies which Dan is offering us to use because I am not familiar with them yet. However, learning a little bit about each tool, they appear to be useful. With Blogger, I can see other people’s work and I think this is really cool because this way, I can get to know about other students’ opinions. Of course we can exchange our thoughts in discussions but I think it’s good that I can sit, relax and read others’ opinions. Sometimes it’s too stressful to speak or exchange opinions in discussions. And also, we can re-read my and others' thoughts again and again. With Zotero, I will not have to bother about work citation like the spring semester. I think this is really good because then I can finally concentrate only on the contents of my paper work!! I do not understand anything about Evernote yet.

2.  How comfortable are you using technology for learning? What devices and apps do you use now that help you in your life as student? 

  I am not so comfortable with using technology for learning because I do not have the habit to check my lap top to see if I got a new email or anything- I only check my phone. So I am afraid if I am going to be behind or miss something due to my habit of not checking my laptop. But studying at ICU, I always have be aware of Portal, moodle, yamata and bunch of other websites, so I think I have to make the habit of checking all those online pages at least one time a day. Talking about the devices I use for study, I only use an app that organizes my class schedule.  I prefer using pen and notebooks for my study.