Lesson 4: Wikipedia

I checked numerous articles today and I had a hard time finding errors. It seems to me that I always can see them, but not today. Reading the articles i realized that would have said some things differently, but that is the matter of style or personal preference, not grammatical errors.

I found, however, an article on a Yugoslav Nobel Laureate for literature, Ivo Andric (1892-1975). I've changed a part of a sentence saying that he was "a member of presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina" to "a member of the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina". The word "presidency" is a literary translation of a Serbo/Croatian/Bosnian word "predsjednistvo". The English equivalent for this political entity, or, if you like, a proper translation, is the word "parliament".

In the paragraph that talks about his personal life, it stated that "following the death of his wife in 1968, he began reducing his political activities..." I added the name o his wife Milica Babic-Andric.

Lesson 3: Deliciuos

I use Delicious almost every day. It's a very important tool for many reference questions that we answer here at Humanities. I mostly use those tags that are related to our subject areas, and they are grouped under Fiction&Literature, History&Genealogy and Travel&Geography.

With this training I got a chance to explore Delicious beyond that. And I've found some amazing sites! For example, under Search Tools tag, I've discovered ALA Best Free Reference Websites, a list of outstanding reference sites that are updated annually! There is also WolframAlpha, a "knowledge engine", that gets information from its own database. It's very useful for comparing data (we have a lot of questions about distances between cities, for example).

Although I am really comfortable using those sites on Delicious that are related to my job, it was useful to become more familiar with other sites that are there.

As for the tips, I would suggest something that I've learned from Jerry F., from BSSS: sorting the bookmarks alphabetically and displaying the maximum number of bookmarks per page (100). That really helps with the tags with lot of entries.

Lesson 2: Goals

Hello,

Answer:

I hope to become familiar with some new social networking technologies that I normally don't use, and to expand my knowledge and skills with those that I use either personally or as a part of my job.