Week Two Assignment

Review Source 1

http://faculty.clintoncc.suny.edu/faculty/learningstyles/learningstyles.html

The Blog itself is limited in visual appearance or widgets but does not lack content and pertinent information about learning styles. The amount of resources and links listed at the bottom of the page shows the extent of knowledge that the author used to create this blog.

As for content this blog directly relates to points that  Dr. Orman stated in this weeks resources this website makes a distinction amongst learning styles in how the information is encoded.  However instead of using the term encoded this blog uses the term perception. There are basically four different ways people perceive their reality in terms of learning.  This blog also discusses how people choose to make sense of the information they have perceived in their reality to be important.

The links at the top of the page provide a great bullet-ed list of what strengths and weakness each learning style has.  After reviewing this website I am contemplating having my students next year review this site and try to determine what type of learner they are for themselves.

I found this blog overall to provided a large amount of accurate and applicable information while not getting too wordy or distracting.

Review Source 2

http://www.asa3.org/ASA/education/think/methods.htm

Unlike the first blog that I visited this one seemed a bit over whelming.  The amount of hyperlinks provided my mind with too many distraction to initially find a direction and course of action to follow.  After Spending sometime on this site i found the amount of information to be impressive and the amount of additional resources to be as well.

Once I had explored enough links to satisfy my initial curiosity I settled in on a page dedicated to Design process.  One of the courses I teach is titled Design and Drawing for Production.  We spend a considerable amount of time discussions do modeling through the design process.  AS I am sure you are all aware there are several different design process models.  Naturally I was curious what advantages this one had to offer. This model is a shorter sequence of steps and nearly as accurate in its wording as the current model I am using.  Needless to say I will strongly consider this method for the upcoming year as well as researching it a bit more.  If I do end up using this method the amount of rehearsal learning the students will have to do in remembering all the steps in the design process will be greatly reduced.  I just need to assess if the trade off in accuracy is worth the gain in application.