Kyle Lee summarizes his learning preferences and experience using social technologies in a class. He prefers visual and solitary learning styles. Social bookmarking was the most useful technology for Kyle as it allowed him to independently share and receive information. In the future, he plans to use social bookmarking to collaborate with other historians on research and to share references with other designers for work projects.

1. Synthesis Project
about Social Learning
Kyle Lee

2. Synthesis Project about Social Learning
Kyle Lee
Contents
Section 1 - My Personal Learning Preferences 3
Section 2 - My Learning Pathway 4
Section 3 - Contribution of Activities 5
Section 4 - Top 3 Social Technologies 6
Section 5 - My Use of Mobile Technologies 7
Section 6 - Future Use of the Technologies 8
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My scores when I first took the survey were: 3
towards REF, 3 towards SEN, 11 towards VIS, and
Section 1 3 towards GLO. I’m not sure if much has changed
about the way I perceive my learning preferences.
I feel that I’ve always been pretty sure of who I am
My Personal Learning Preferences as a learner, but it is interesting to go through this
class and be active in things that maybe show me
something a little different than what I might have
thought about myself. I always knew that I was more
partial to learning through visuals, but I am also trying
to look at the details more now that I’ve taken this
class. Seems like it would be a great place for me to
grow as a learner.
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I feel that I began the class with the mindset that I
would be a learning Sage. I wanted to learn about
Section 2 new technologies and websites. I think that I was
very successful in doing this through the class. There
were many online resources that I was not familiar
My Learning Pathway with until using them in this class, and I think that
I will be able to use some of them throughout my
career. I didn’t change my pathway, but I do find
that I would like to implement what I have learned
more thoroughly in to the rest of my learning career
(becoming a Warrior).
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I think that the Social Bookmarking activity really
stuck with me. As a History major, I am in the middle
Section 3 of doing some in depth research that I feel I could
use help on. These days, a lot of research can be
done online through digitized archives, and if I
Contribution of Activities ever teamed up with someone to research specific
things, or needed help with my research, I can see
how Social Bookmarking will be very useful. It
makes me excited to think about being able to share
information and sources with other historians so
easily! I’m having hope that tablet computers will
be able to aid in research as well. Things like google
docs and other online sharing techniques will be able
to lend a hand when finding something in a physical
archive and needing to save the information and
share it right away.
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6. Synthesis Project about Social Learning
Kyle Lee I explored the use of ipads/tablets in the activity by downloading
some of the apps that were discussed. Blogging wasn’t really new to
me, even though I hadn’t done it on an iPad before. The use of tablet
computers to interact with others is something that really interests me.
Twitter, and games like farmville or other cooperative games can help
build team skills and be useful for developing skills for the workplace.
Section 4 Technology can be used to build a cooperative and nurturing
environment through MMOGs and other apps.
Top 3 Social Technologies Social Bookmarking can be a very useful way to develop research
and collaborate with others. These tools are a fantastic way to share
information with each other. I think that social bookmarking can help
me organize information in to structures that are more visual, which
really helps with my learning preferences. Finding pages and sites with
information that also has accompanying photos or graphics can also
help my learning. I can share these sites or have other people share
them with me easily. Seems like this is a technology that I will be using
very much in the future.
Social networking sites don’t do much for my education really. My
learning preferences sort of lean towards working alone with time for
self reflection. I do understand how these networking sites can help
though. Connecting with classmates is always a good idea, and sites
like Facebook can make that process easy and quick. I think that using
the networking site, Linkedin, will help with future job searches though.
It can also lead to making useful connections within an industry that I
would like to be a part of.
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I think that I was really surprised with the technology
of MMOGs. I never really thought of those games
as being social technologies. I found that team-
building skills could be developed through these
technologies. I feel that Social Networking is not
Section 5 very useful tool for learning. I think that networking
sites can be great for building a closer community
within classrooms or workplaces, but as far as
directly learning something, I don’t quite see the
My Use of Social Technologies
benefits. I would like to explore the use of Social
Bookmarking more for learning. I think that the
collaboration process of sending each other links fits
in to my learning preferences very well.
Social bookmarking worked best for my learning
preferences. I usually like to work alone as much
as possible. I find that my process of working
on projects involves a lot of self-reflection and
thinking and developing ideas on my own. Social
bookmarking helps people share information without
being forced to work in groups. I think that working
in groups can be a great way for people to learn, but
for my preferences I learn better with minimal group
work. The information that can be shared through
links to websites can also expose interesting ways to
interpret information. Graphs and visual elements
can be easily sent to each other or saved for each
other to see. Visual presentations definitely help my
learning.
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I will continue to develop more collaborative
learning. I do wish that I enjoyed working in groups
Section 6 more, and I feel that some of the technology we
used in this class exposed me to different ways to
collaborate in non-traditional ways. I think some
Future Use of the Technologies of these technologies, such as MMOGs can help
develop team-building skills and make a better work
environment. Some jobs already use activities to
build a team-environment, but I think that MMOGs
can be a strong addition to these activities.
I’m going to continue using Social Boomarking for
my job and for my research in history. I think that
collaborating with other historians doing research on
similar topics can benefit from sharing information
with each other. Many documents can be found
online now, and creating a system of bookmarking
can be a great way to help each other out. As a
graphic designer, I can use social bookmarking with
other designers or clients to share references and
help get each other working on the same page.
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Kyle Lee
Thank You.