Learning Styles

I consider myself fortunate that I am able to learn from the written word, and might go so far as to say I learn that way best, except that I also learn well by class lectures. I do *not* like to work in groups in artificial situations, such as group projects for classes! In real-life, working in groups is fine with me, though I prefer my responsibilities to be clearly outlined.

What confuses me about the way learning styles are most often defined is that to me, learning by reading is a visual style -- it is my eyes doing the work, not my ears, not my hands, and not someone's mouth. I think Felder & Solomon rather than to identify "learners" actually identified elements of learning. How people learn is a fascinating subject to me; Psychology of Learning was one of my favorite courses as an undergraduate.

The variety of presentations in this course keeps the material interesting, and provides materials at different levels of interest/ability to the students. If one wants to pursue more in-depth look at the topic, the source is readily available.
I probably use the tutorial videos least -- to this point -- as said, I prefer reading text.

Pick Your Style

Creating the new users in the server and desktop platforms of Ubuntu this week went smoothly, following the instructions in the class assigments. I forged ahead to the assignments only lightly reading the class lecture and readings, planning to do in-depth reading/reviewing during an upcoming road trip.

It was so quick to do create the user by CLI, I think it would be my preferred method. However, one has to remember the correct command and syntax. With the GUI formats of the Ubuntu desktop and the Webmin interface with the server, it is a much simpler, albeit longer, process using menus and dialog boxes.

The most frustrating aspect of using the server interface so far is the "hiccup" -- something which doesn't appear to work one moment and miraculously works at the next use.