This document summarizes a student's experience in an ITEC 299 class. The student initially took the class to fulfill course requirements for financial aid. He learned about his learning preferences through a survey, which identified his strengths in active, sensing, and visual learning. He chose the "Learning Sage" pathway to gain exposure to multiple technologies. Favorite technologies included the iPad, games, and smartphones. The student found apps like Evernote and educational games helpful for learning. Going forward, he plans to apply what he learned about research and technology use to future classes.

1. ITEC 299 Synthesis
Presentation
Donald Hout

2. My Motivation
• What motivated me to ultimately take this class
is actually having enough units for full financial
aid and being able to live on campus with 12
units or more. At first I really didn’t know what
this class was and thought it was a joke at first
because of the title itself but little did I know
that I would learn a lot from it so I could use it
further in my future classes.

3. My Learning Preference
• Finishing the learning preference survey in the
beginning of the semester informed me with my
learning strengths and weaknesses. My scores
were a 5 on active, 7 on sensing, 7 on visual and
a 1 on global. Even though the results didn’t
surprise me, it still gave me a good confirmation
of which ways I learn the best.

5. Thoughts on Learning
Preference
• Some general thoughts on learning preferences
are that like most learning concepts the
preferences give you the idea of of how you
learn most efficiently. I believe that every
student should take a preference quiz so they all
can understand what their strengths and
weaknesses are in the classroom.

6. My Learning Pathway
• The pathway that I choose at the beginning of
the semester was a Learning Sage. I choose this
because I knew myself as a learner and as a
person would rather want to know a little of
everything besides a lot of only a few things. As
in the forums many people regretted choosing a
warrior because they didn’t have the chance
really to expand their learning through all the
technologies and instead only focused on a few.

8. Activities
• Some activities that I believe helped me learning
through out the class are the mini-lectures and
the quizzes themselves. For the mini-lectures it
gave me a broader sense of what that
technology was and how it works through a basic
term. The quizzes helped me test my knowledge
of that topic and even if if I was wrong the first
time I was was still given chances to redeem any
wrong questions.

9. The Top 3 Technologies
• My favorite/ top three technologies were iPad’s & Tablets,
Games and MMOGs and the use of iPods & iPhones. These
were my favorite because I myself a techy kind of guy so
When I saw that these were some of the technologies that I
had to learn about I was very excited to get to know more
about them. iPad’s & Tablets was top of the list because I
already own a iPad myself and going through activities with it
was interesting and fun. Like the tablet technology Games &
MMOGs, I felt very confortable with it since I have already
been experienced with playing some of these games presently
and growing up. Lastly iPods and iPhones were interesting I
got to to learn how much you can expand the
iPhone/smartphones to learning which also made me excited
to use this technology in my studies.

10. Synthesized Experience
• For me one of the best ways that I experienced a technology was
with the iPad and all the educational apps that are contained in the
app store. Apps like Evernote helped me get organized with all my
classes from separating quiz dates and even now getting together
different notes ready for my finals. The best past about it is that is
syncs with all my devices including my smart phone and laptop
which is great for someone like me who is always on the go and out.
Other technologies that I believe that helped me experience
learning in a new matter was running through Games & MMOGs. It
surprised me because I didn’t think that was really a video game
that helped college students with their studies by little did I know
that there were games like EVE online where you can actually learn
how to sharpen your management skills which is great for someone
in the business field. Some technologies like screencast and podcast
seem to the least likable to me due to the fact that I’m the type of
learner that can’t just sit there and listen to a lecture.

11. Synthesized Personal Learning
Practices
• What I have always know my whole life was to go to school, take
notes, come back home then repeat the next day but what I learned
in the past couple years was that they’re so many ways to go about
learning. This day and era are educational system is going through a
transition of moving from paper to digital. A lot of classroom across
the country have already incorporated tablets into the lectures to
give a more interactive experience. I have always tried to keep up
with the latest technologies and I am excited about how it is finally
taking a huge turn towards the educational department. Companies
like Apple have made huge strives towards integrating their
technology into the classroom. I’ve learned how to fully take out the
potential in most technologies so that I could incorporate it into my
studies which has really helped me. I am so immersed into now that
it’s hard to think to work out it which can be scary. 10 years from
now everyone can have tablets instead of the traditional paper
notebooks that we all come used to. For now I can say personally
that I have come to terms with learning technologies and I
understand to a good extent of how each one works with the
learning process.

12. In the near future…
• I will try and use most of what I learned in this class
towards my futures classes. Some of these things are the
use of iPad technology and how to research through the
internet. A lot of this can be brought back to a lot of our
mini-lectures and how they explain the basics of getting
through that technology. A lot of it has taught me to go
back to quizzes to remind yourself of what you exactly
learning in the course. Also the activities of forum
discussions were helpful since it gave us the opportunity
to learn and comments on others. It also gave us
feedback with people going through the same activity
instead of one teacher going through it. All in all this
class will helped me learn through many different ways
from researching to just understanding what technology I
am using at the time.

13. Feelings of a Sage
• My experience and thoughts as a Learning Sage
were exactly what they were when I picked it in
the beginning of the semester which is that I
knew this who I was. I feel like it was always
better to know a little about everything then a
lot of a few things. Since there were so many
technologies in the course, it just didn’t sit right
to just be condemned to only know a few of
them. Knowing more of gives you more
versatility though out the whole course. That not
only goes for this class but in life in general.