This is my senior year of college so I'm fairly familiar with most forms of technology that we will talk about in class. I've made videos for public history classes, I've used excel sheets to organize data I've collected in archives, and I've written way too many papers. I received a small bit of money last fall to take a a research trip to Boston, where I looked through the archives of the Schlesinger library at Harvard, where I used a "hover camera" program to take pictures of different items from the collections, which were then immediately uploaded to my computer. It was a really cool experience and I got a lot of photos, mostly because there was some really interesting stuff in the collection of Katherine M. Keene, a woman who worked for the OSS during WWII.
I'm not too familiar with making podcasts and I could use a little more practice with excel, but I feel fairly comfortable with my knowledge so far. I want to be a professor some day so I'm hoping this class will help me build specific strategies to use in future classes. Additionally, I'd like to feel a bit more comfortable in the fields I'm weak in, in order to be a more effective instructor as well as student in the future.
I'm fairly balanced on most spectrum of learning styles, but according to the survey I'm definitely more verbal than visual. I found this surprising as I usually have a hard time taking in information when it's only spoken and have to ask for a repeat, but I definitely work better when I'm able to think allowed, ask questions, and verbally go through steps even when I'm by myself. For the most part my learning style seems to be situational, which I agree with.
