Multimedia technology synthesis
- 2. Learning Preference At the beginning of the semester I learned that my learning preference and I learned that I am fairly balanced in active (1), visual (1), global (1), and then for intuitive I had a more favorable learning preference with a score of 5. When I started college i think that i might have been more of a sequential learner but as time went on I think that I might have adapted into a more intuitive learner. I like to think of things in theories and try to think of different ways of doing things. Since it is the end of class I have looked back at how differently I see these learning preferences and I have come to see that it really works better if you have a moderate balance of these because it helps you gain a better grasp on everything and gives you a different look into everything else and how things can be done. I do think that learning about your learning preferences can help you because for me I never really thought about how I learned easier and what things I had an easier time learning. Christopher Heins
- 3. Learning Pathway At the beginning of the class I chose to be a learning sage for the multimedia quests because as I have said before I think that somebody can never learn too much and I am always curious about learning more and more about things even if I feel like I know about that certain topic. At the end of the class I did not change my pathway because I don’t think I had reached the limit of how much I can learn from using multimedia to help with my learning preferences. Christopher Heins
- 4. Activities I think all the quests for multimedia helped me gain a deeper knowledge about how to use them to help with everyday learning. With multimedia we use these things everyday so it is pretty much natural for all of us to learn using these things even if it is something that we aren’t aware of. For our classes in college we have to use the internet and other things to do our research, and even things outside of school we learn from stuff like billboards even if it is just learning about a product. Even television can be educational in the sense that for young children there are educational shows for them to learn basic things like counting and the alphabet. Christopher Heins
- 5. Exploration For the screencasts quests I don’t really see them as really being helpful to my learning style because it is more of a straightforward technique that doesn’t really allow me to think outside the box, but it does allow me to go at my own pace if i need to review more on what was being said or taught in the screencast. But in that sense I do have a little control at what I can and cannot do because I am allowed to move at my own pace.
- 6. Exploration Cont. For the Podcasts quests I think that this help fits my intuitive learning preference because I can choose which podcasts I want to listen that will benefit my education. In another sense though it also could not help me that much in the way that I learn because since it is a podcast and if I am listening to it there is no dialogue being exchanged between the person doing the podcast and the person listening to it, and the way I like to learn is by interacting with other people exchanging ideas and theories. Christopher Heins
- 7. Exploration Cont. For the multimedia quest I think that this only kind of benefits my learning preference. Since multimedia covers a lot of different areas such as television, billboards, and internet it can benefit everybodies learning preference at least a little bit. Since mostly everybody uses the internet everyday to look up things even if they are random we are still teaching ourselves about something. I think that this benefits my learning style because when i use the internet for research I have control over what I want to look at and use for my research and that it what I learn best by doing. Christopher Heins
- 8. Synthesize As a whole there weren’t any specific quests that surprised me, because each of them I was interested in how much more I could learn about how they could help me learn. I feel like all of these are beneficial in helping people learn despite their learning preference. Since the multimedia quests cover a lot of different things I feel like everybody would be able to find something that it beneficial to how they learn even if it is something small. For the future there isn’t something specific that I want to keep learning about as far as multimedia because I am always using it and I will naturally continue to learn more about it as I use it everyday. Christopher Heins
- 9. Synthesize Cont. To me all of these help me with my learning preference because I generally have control over what I want to watch or listen to, even though I wouldn’t be able to talk about what I am learning with the people making them I could possibly have these talks with other people using other technologies which is preferential to me. Christopher Heins
- 10. Future Uses I will continue to use all of these multimedia learning strategies after I finish this class. Even after this class is done and I am out of school I feel like I will continue to use all of these strategies especially when it comes to learning about a job. If I am trying to learn about a job it would be easy to look things up on the internet and if it is something specific that I would need to learn I would be able to look up how-to videos or screencasts on how to do it, and I would be able to learn it at my own pace and be able to go back and review it if I don’t understand it at first. Christopher Heins
- 11. Future Uses Cont. After this class I will continue to use all of these for learning because I think they are all beneficial for learning since we are in a time where technology is very prominent and everybody uses the internet to look up screencasts and even podcasts. I would mainly use the internet for non educational purposes after class because there are many things on the internet that I could do or look up just to relax and entertain myself. There is nothing from these quests that I would avoid because all of these are very useful in terms of being educational. Christopher Heins