Elizabeth Perez explored her personal learning preferences and pathways at the beginning and end of her multimedia class. While she initially identified as a global, reflective, and sequential learner, she found her preferences changed through completing various activities. She chose the learning pathway of "Sage" but later felt "Learning Warrior" fit better as she thought about applying the technologies. The activities that best contributed to her learning were exploring bookmarking sites, social media, screen casting, and tablets. The mobile technologies she explored were multimedia, screen casting, and podcasts. Screen casting most interested her as a potential learning tool. While surprised by podcasts, she found value in each technology. Going forward, she plans to accommodate different learning styles and continue

1. MULTIMEDIA PROJECT
Elizabeth Perez
Describe your personal learning preferences In the beginning of the class
my scored from my learning preference survey were not as accurate as I thought I
identified with. My learning preferences according to the survey were global
preference, reflective, and sequential which means step to step instructions are
more fit to my style according to my score. The style preference I agree the most
with is reflective because I feel like it fits my style of learning because I like to take
the time to analyze and really put into perspective what is going on with whatever it
is that I am learning at the time. At the end of the course my thoughts on y learning
preferences changed a bit because being able to learn in other ways through out the
quests made me more comfortable with other learning styles. Knowing about
learning preferences makes a difference in my personal learning success because
now I know that even though I might prefer to learn a certain way, if that isn’t
working I can always attempt to try a different way, even if it’s not something I
preferred at the beginning. Open mind.
Describe the learning pathway you chose at the beginning of the
class I chose the learning pathway Sage, I felt like I would be successful at grasping
the broader investigation into more technologies, new technologies. But as the
course went on I felt like Learning warrior, personal growth fit my learning pathway
instead. I felt like the more I looked into the new websites I was learning about the
more I was thinking of ways I could use them in the future to my benefit. I think this
helped me a lot, therefore learning warrior was a successful pathway to getting a
broader knowledge of multimedia technologies.
Describe how the activities you completed contributed or did not
contribute to your learning pathway
From the multimedia activities I feel like a lot of them helped me get a better insight
into different ways to approach and utilize multimedia but none of them helped me
learn the entirety of multimedia. The different bookmarking cites, and learning how
to use the different social networking cites as well as researching what websites are
liable was something that definitely contributed to my learning because those were
things I never really paid attention to when I did research in the past. Knowing how
to use tags, bookmarks, and other tools such as these is definitely a source I will
keep using in the future when I want to learn about a certain topic. The quest that
helped me learn was the screen casting and the Ipads and tablet computers because
I found it very beneficial and being a visual learner most of the time definitely made
this easier for me.
Using one paragraph each, describe the top 3 mobile technologies
you explored for learning

2. First mobile technology that I explored for learning was multimedia, it was
a great way to get more familiar and actually get an opportunity to learn the
depth of multimedia advantages and all the ways we can utilize it not only
through social networking. Multimedia has evolved into something so
important it has become a part of all of our lives in one way or another that
is why I believe we will never learn everything we need to about
multimedia. The tv, radio, internet and even physical media we see in the
streets have all become gateways to receiving a message or information
about something. There is an endless of multimedia sources we can use
for a variety of things, I personally use the most common ones but I feel
like the quests helped me find a better purpose for it since accommodated
to me learning preference.
The second mobile technology I explored for learning was screencasts,
this was a technology I wasn’t really familiar with since I do not play many
video games or had came across many screen casts before, I can
definitely see how this technology can help people’s learning preference
and gives them a visual and hearing aid that can accommodate to them as
preferred. I like that there is organization in this technology and that it can
make it easier to get a person’s message across in a convenient manner.
The third technology I used to learn during the course was the podcasts. I
feel like this technology is quite useful for not only students but in different
professional settings as well. I had never heard of this technology before
but it seems like it’s becoming more of a convenience for many. I feel like
with podcasts we could use it to our benefit and many people don’t.
Synthesize your experience investigating your use of different
multimedia technologies for learning
The multimedia technology that interested me the most as a learning tool
was screen casting, because I feel like it’s a technology that I can actually
see having an effect or aid to my learning. It is definitely convenient within
sequential learning which I sometimes prefer so I found it very interesting
how we could use this technology through different settings and purposes.
The multimedia that surprised me like I mentioned was the podcasts
because I never had given it enough attention to find out how it could
benefit my learning, and once I did through the quest I realized it could be
very useful. There wasn’t a multimedia technology that I found not to have
a purpose or be able to work, most of them had a different purpose and all
seem to work, I feel like it just depends on the person’s learning
preference. A multimedia I would like to explore further would probably be
screen casting because I feel like it has a lot to offer and there is a lot to
learn from it as well. I feel like social bookmarking was the social
technology that helped me learn because as a reflective learner I feel like

3. given the chance to do research and find different resources or
‘bookmarks’ gave me the opportunity to actually focus and find new
perspectives so that will definitely be useful in the future as well.
Describe how you will use what you learned in this class after this
semester
After the course this semester, I will begin to find different ways to learn, I
learned what my learning preferences were but I want to accommodate to
a variety of them. I would like to learn to be a better hearing learner, I
found myself to prefer to look at the power points rather than videos
through out the quests, I would like to grow patience when it comes to
listening so I feel like this strategy is something I will continue to better
myself at. Also, this will help in any social or professional setting. The
multimedia strategies I will continue to use are podcasts, and screen
casting because I had never used them before and I want to incorporate
them to my learning and just being able to use them. There isn’t a
technology I will avoid, I wouldn’t want to close myself as to new
possibilities of having one of them be useful.