2. Learning Preferences
• In the beginning of the class I took the learning preferences survey.
What I remember from the survey is that I was a visual, verbal,
sensing, active, and learner. My learning preference quiz scores
were active-7, sensual-9, visual-5, and sequential-3. The learning
preferences that I was not so strong in were intuitive, global and
sequential. My thinking has changed because I have learned what
my strong points of learning are and what my weak points are. It
has helped my learning overall now because I know now that I
mainly a visual and active learner. Knowing this has benefited me a
lot because I know the ways of studying that will benefit me the
most. This has definitely made a huge difference on my personal
learning success. The ways I use to study did not help as much yet
after knowing what my best learning preferences were I have started
to apply those preferences when studying and I have seen nothing
but positive results.
Nicholas Duenas
3. Learning Pathway
• When the class first started I chose to be a learning warrior
because I felt that this pathway was what I wanted to learn
about.With this pathway I got to learn the more broader and
deeper knowledge about multimedia technologies. The
broader aspect of this quest was learning about how flash
games work and how they can be used for education. When I
did the multimedia activities I got deeper into the multimedia
technology. When learning about the flash games and how
they worked I started to understand that these games were
designed for active and visual learners. I gained a lot of
information through these activities and progressed much
farther then I thought I would. As a learning warrior I got a
chance to learn the broader and deeper details of multimedia
technology.
Nicholas Duenas
4. Learning Activities
• Working on the multimedia activities were one of my favorite
things to do in this class. I think I enjoyed it because the flash
games and videos really engaged me into the topic. With most
of the multimedia activities I learned with my active and
visual learning preferences. The topic on the bridges gave me
a broader understanding of how bridges are built especially
the visual images as well as verbal images that showed the
steps on how to build a bridge. In addition to that activity I
thought “building the human body” activity was different
from the others. I found it interesting because I got to apply
what I knew from my anatomy class and tried to build a
human body from scratch. It is hard to say if any of these
activities would help learning with others because I feel that
these activities are based for solely for learning alone.
Nicholas Duenas
5. Exploration of Technologies for
Learning: Screen Cast
• For the technology quests I decided to explore
screen cast, podcasts, and multimedia. Out of the
three I feel that screen casts helped me the most
with my visual and verbal learning. The screen casts
were easy to follow because they both provided
visual images and audio lectures. I found an
individual on the Internet that makes screen cast for
human anatomy. There are actually a lot of people
who make screen casts for different topics such as
history, science, and literature. I found that screen
casts on Youtube were the most helpful for me
because they provided visual images along with the
audio.
Nicholas Duenas
6. Exploration of Technologies for
Learning: Podcasts
• The second technology quests that I decided to
explore were about podcasts. Personally I think that
podcasts are useless and I do not see how anyone
could learn with podcasts. Podcasts only provide
audio and I feel that if someone wanted to learn with
podcasts they would have to take notes while
listening and keep rewinding over and over again to
understand the material. Because my learning
preferences are active, visual, sensual and sequential
I think I would only use podcasts if it were the last
resort. Podcasts would be better learning tools if
they provided some visual images.
Nicholas Duenas
7. Exploration of Technologies for
Learning: Multimedia
• The last technology quest that I explored was about
multimedia. This technology helped the most because it
made me learn through active, sensual and visual
learning. I enjoyed working on the multimedia activities
because they provided all the information and material I
needed to successfully learn about that topic. On the
Internet I found some websites where I could use
multimedia to learn about anatomy. These websites
provided quizzes where I could quiz myself on certain
areas of the human body that were supported with words
and images. The multimedia helped my learning because
I am a visual and active learner. I thought these sites
were fun to explore because they provided fun games
along with interesting information.
Nicholas Duenas
8. Synthesis
• The multimedia technologies that I found most useful
were the screen cast because I could use this technology
as learning tools. When first learning about screen casts
I did not think that I could ever use this type of
technology as a learning tool yet I was definitely wrong
once I got into deeper knowledge of screen casts. When
searching up screen casts I was a little shocked at how
many screen casts there were for different school
subjects. In my opinion I feel that podcasts are useful
learning tools and they should be stop being made for
educational purposes. I would like to explore
multimedia-learning tools deeper because I feel that they
could benefit me. Multimedia learning tools are
enjoyable activities to work on while learning. Nicholas Duenas
9. Synthesis Cont.
• The social technology that benefited me the most
was the website Youtube. On the website people
could post and comment on videos. There are
numerous screen casts on this website. As a
visual learner screen casts have made my
learning preferences a lot easier by providing
visual images and audio that goes along with the
images.
Nicholas Duenas
10. What’s Next..
• After this class is over I will continue to use my
visual and active learning strategies. These
strategies can be used during school presentations,
work presentations and any other place one would
have to use a presentation in. I feel that screen casts
can be used to teach new employees the policies of
the company or perhaps they can demonstrate how
something works. I feel that podcasts are not and
never will be good learning tools. The only positive
thing about a podcast is that one can download the
podcast onto their iphone/mp3 and have it where
ever they go.
Nicholas Duenas
11. What’s Next Cont..
• I will definitely keep using screen casts as one of my
main learning tools. I am surprised of all the things I
can benefit from screen casts. I will absolutely be
using screen casts in the future where its regarding
school, a job, or a family party. I was searching
around the Internet for the perfect science screen
cast site and I came upon on the website
Knanacademy.org. This website has a bunch of
different screen casts for specific subjects. I know
that this site will come into more use throughout the
next couple of semester when I have to take more
science classes.
Nicholas Duenas