Extra Credit

Something that I think will be very helpful to you as you do your research on the Internet is Delicious, online storage of your "Bookmarks." Currently, if you're on a computer and you want to save access to a page you think would be helpful to your paper, you have three choices:

• Save it to "Bookmarks" on the browser window (usually Internet Explorer). This only works if you only ever use one computer, because the Bookmark saves to that specific computer's browser window. If you use another computer, you lose your Bookmarks until you can get back to the computer on which you saved them.
• Cut and paste the address you want to keep and put them in a document and/or email them to yourself. This can get cumbersome unless you consolidate emails every time.
• Save the address to an online website that will give you access to your bookmarks as long as you have Internet access.

Delicious is the third option. It's an place to save your bookmarks online so that, as long as you have Internet access, you'll be able to access your bookmarks, no matter what.

Delicious also allows you to tag your bookmarks. So you can tag them with a topic or with something like "helpful" or "quote"--stuff specific to YOUR use of the pages you're saving. You can also choose to make the Bookmarks public or not.

So, go to Delicious. Sign up for an account. Use it over the next few weeks by saving at least five subject-appropriate bookmarks (WITH TAGS!) to your account.

And link to MY Delicious account. You do this by clicking on "Go to a user" in the top right corner of your page once you've logged on. Enter sarahfrantz in the box. Once you've found me (and then have access to all the bookmarks *I've* ever saved on Delicious), click on "Add to my network," again in the top right corner of the page. When you go to the "Networks" tab, I'll show up on the right hand side of the screen, and you'll show up in MY Networks tab.

This is a long-term extra-credit, obviously. But this is a powerful tool available for your use. Have fun!