Jaime found that his learning style preferences included being an active, visual, and sequential learner. He explored various social technologies for learning, including games and MMOs, social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, and social bookmarking sites. Jaime found social bookmarking especially useful for learning about accounting. After the class, Jaime plans to continue using social interactions and social bookmarking to support his ongoing learning.

1. Jaime Chavarria
Describe your personal learning preferences
When I first took the learning style quiz at the beginning of the class, I was surprise with how
accurate I think the results where. For instance in the active and reflective scale, it concluded
that I was fairly well balanced, but I did favor the active side more. On the scale for the sensing
and intuitive learners, it resulted again that I was fairly balanced of both styles, but that I scored a
three on the intuitive learner side. I wasn’t surprise as much with my result for the scale that
dealt with being a visual learner or a verbal learner. There it resulted that I was fairly well
balanced, but I did get a three favoring the visual learner region. Lastly, on the scale between
being a sequential learner and a global learner, it resulted that I have a moderate preference and
that I learner better in the environment of a sequential learner. Now that the class is coming to
an end, I feel very satisfied with my learning preferences. One of the reasons is because I feel
my learning preferences do really help me better understand any material. Also, by me knowing
what I favor, makes me tend to go and learn material that teaches it in that specific learning
environment. Overall, after taking this course, I have been able to see which learning
preferences I can work on because in the end I think being able to favor all learning styles can
make learning much easier. So, i've been trying to experiment with this class that I feel has tried
to accommodate really for all styles.

2. Jaime Chavarria
Describe the learning pathway you chose at the beginning of the class
At the start of the class, I was stuck between two learning pathways. I was looking into the
Learning Guide pathway because I was interested in learning about different technologies. I was
also interested in the Learning Sage pathway because I wanted to learn more about different
technologies and how they could be used for learning in general. I always thought Facebook was
just a way of being able to meet people and keep in touch with friends, but after working on the
social networking site quest my opinion has changed. Know I have learned how Facebook can
be used as a way for you to share content, but also be able to review what others have shared. I
also learned how websites as diigo.com can be used to share bookmarking sites that can help you
study for some exam you may have. In the end, I didn’t change either pathways since I was able
to work with others to learn about different technologies and how they can ultimately be used to
learn.

3. Jaime Chavarria
Describe how the activities you completed contributed or did not contribute to your learning
pathway
Out of the all the activities we worked on, the Games and MMOGs helped me get a broader
understanding of how social technologies can be used to learn. With this activity I learned of some
of the wide range of games that are available to learn such as the cell cycle and the lemonade stand.
As working on becoming a business major, working on the lemonade stand game was fun since, it
gave you the change to make what you believe would be smart business decision and see how you
could gain or lose money. The activates on social networking sites on the other hand helped me get
a deeper understanding of using social technologies to learn. For instance, the activity of using
LiveMocha.com helped me understand how there are social networking sites that you can choose
from a list of languages and be connected with hundreds of other people who speak that language.
Not only will you meet new people, but you can also practice speaking the language with a native
speaker. I also feel that using a website like LiveMocha.com can work best for learning with others
to use social technologies. In the end, you not speaking alone, but actually interacting with another
person. Not only do you have the possibility of learning, but the other person you’re interacting
with can also learn.

4. Jaime Chavarria
Using one paragraph each, describe the top 3 social technologies you explored for learning
Games & MMOG’s:
I used the Nobelprize.org activity to learn and also review the subject of biology and the cell cycle.
Personally, I think this site did very well in accommodating for my learning preferences. The three
learning preferences that I felt it did well in accommodating for where, active, visual, and
sequential. This activity was done in a step by step manner, which favored the sequential learner I
am. First you started learning about how each step of the cell cycle worked and then you where
asked questions to see how well you learned the material. This was very interactive and had plenty
of videos that showed you the movement surrounding the life of the cells. By actually reading and
watching the video at the same time, it helped me remember what I was learning. By doing all of
this, over all this made it a great way for an active learner. Normally in class you wouldn’t watch
videos and you would just read the textbook. However by doing something with the information
that I was learning, I was better able to keep hold of how the cell cycle works.
Social Networking:
The social networking site of Twitter is a one of the ways I went about to explore social technology
for my own learning. The way I used Twitter was by being able to keep tract of current news
happening in El Salvador. It was something that a lot of my family and friends where using to learn
of special events and news that where taking place there. After all, we don’t want to lose in touch
with what’s happening back home, since we are living so far away. Being able to read of
everything that’s happening on a day by day basis helps me keep in touch with what’s going on. If
I have any questions, I could also post them and have someone answer me. This would help start a
conversation with others and help me learn even more.
Social Bookmarking:
Social Bookmarking is another format of social technology that I used to help me learn. I found it
to be a great way to motivate me to learn because there was so much information I was able to find.
What made it even better was that helped me being an active learner do something with the
information I had. The fact that most social bookmarking sites had diagrams and photos really
helped me also sees what I needed to learn and get a better understanding of the topic. I used some
social bookmarking class to help me better understand certain topics for my accounting class. I was
having trouble trying to understand my professor, but after doing the research I was overwhelmed
with how much I was able to get from social bookmarking sites. There was so much information
that I think, I could have used it to find any questions or if I had any confusion with anything that
dealt with accounting.

5. Jaime Chavarria
Synthesize your experience investigating your use of different social technologies for learning
I think that being able to use such websites as Facebook interested me the most as using it as a
learning tool. I thought it was just to keep in touch with family or friends and to share pictures.
Now I see that you can create special accounts that focus on a specific topic and have other join and
comment about it. Personally, I feel that all of the social technologies I had experience with offered
something different that helped me learn. Everyone had its own way of accommodating for
different types of learning styles and ultimately did help me learn something different each time.
The social technology that I want to explore further to improve my learning has to be the use of
social bookmarking. At the beginning I wasn’t aware of how much information it has to offer so
that you can learn. As I previously stated, I used social bookmarking to help me further learn about
accounting and the results were great. After having that good experience with it, I look forward to
using it to help me learn about different topics I have questions about.
I believe that the use of social technology such as Facebook worked best with my learning
preferences. Just being able to get the opinions and thoughts of others is great because then you
have the chance of viewing things differently. That interaction you get to have with others is of
great value. You don’t only have to verbally communicate via Facebook, you have the option of
sharing videos, photos which favor me as a visual learner. I think it helps everyone because we all
are capable of learning more when we have both visual and verbal presentation. Being able to have
multiple discussions about a wide range of topics has really helped me learn more. From my
results, I am not much of a global learner but I think this is a good way for those who are. This
form of social technology can be a good way because you can get so much information to absorb
and afterwards you can put the whole picture together.

6. Jaime Chavarria
Describe how you will use what you learned in this class after this semester
The social learning strategy that I plan to use after this class deals with being able to interact with
different people. Being able to interact with people is of great benefit since you get the chance of
sharing common interest and discussing topics. When it comes to having a job, no matter what
kind of job you have, you will always need to interact with people. Either interacting with
customers or having interaction with other colleagues, there is just no way around it. Sure you can
be independent and learn on your own, but by having conversations, sharing ideas, common
interest, discussing issues you have the ability of duplicating what you can learn. Also we have
learned so many ways technology can helps us share and learn ideas, but I believe nothing can
compare to how much we can learn from personal interactions.
When it comes to learning, I was so pleased with how well it went using social bookmarking for my
accounting class, that I see myself continuing to use it once class is over. Yes, social bookmarking
has helped me with school subject such as accounting, but there are plenty of ways to use it for non-
school activities. If you like cooking, you can use social bookmarking to help us find different
dishes you can cook from different places around the world. You can also share your own ideas
and topics. If you like travel, you can use social bookmarking to share cool trip ideas. That’s the
beauty of social bookmarking, there is no restrictions as to what kind of information you can share.
For me who works with the SF Giants, I can use it to share web pages that deal with all sports
including baseball. Overall you can use social bookmarking to interact with others in sharing
information with those who have similar interests as you.