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Core skills 3B—-Zihan Bai(Amy)

-Firstly, I had read the comment on this blog. I thought my texts were too much or over-present in my PowerPoint. I agree that this problem will affect and lose audience interest at some point. So, I recreated my PowerPoint slide based on the PowerPoint strategy lesson that we had learned a couple of weeks ago. Also, I did record again based on what I had in my slides. I took down some words, recreate words to graphics, and added more pictures because I want to emphasize the modality principle. The modality principle explains how humans learn better through visual and spoken words rather than from printing boring words. It will create images immediately once the audience receives information by hearing it, so they do not need to look for evidence.
-Secondly, I did slow down a bit for my audio presentation with a pause between each slide. I want to improve my personalization principle to let the audience process the information first before I go on to the next page. It also helps me on segmenting principle that I divided some content into two pages. Then I will not run into problems like so much information on one page. For the multiple-choice, I did pause to let the audience write it and think about it while learning. Furthermore, with the important context, I did make a red poster to catch the audience’s eyes. So, they know what to focus on and what is important.
-Overall, I did rethink and recreate my PowerPoint. And I hope everyone did learn something through my quick introduction on friendship and relationship and also see how both will influence our lives.

Video about Psychology to focus on friendship and relationship:

Feedback 2–Zihan Bai(Amy)

Sandra Wang:

Hey, dear teammate Sandra Wang. Thank you for sharing a lovely thought on your game and sketch note. I love how you explain the game by using Segmenting principle, and I find that it’s really interesting too. This form is similar to the Twine story so you can choose which way you want to go and the different results will come up based on your choice. Furthermore, I agree with the Learner control principle that u mentioned, I find it was hard to keep on track because they do not allow us to go back on reread some of the points. For the sketch note, I like how you use simple words and clear drawings to explain the important ideas. I would like to use this simple form for my future study. Thank you!

Simin Yi:

Hey, dear pod partner, thank you for sharing the thought on the interesting ted talk. I love how she is using black and white on the background and colorful pictures on the main point. That actually a very good way for signaling principle and make people less distract from the background. I would also want to point out that she uses the learner control principle to let the audience have full control over the speed. It is a beneficial way for learners who have a disability to focus on words or who prefer words only. People can choose what they want by using video form with colorful pictures. Furthermore, I agree that you said the Animation principle can be distracting but in her video, the animation is very smooth and help people to understand.

Weiwei Chen:

Hey, dear pod partner, thank you for sharing your blog. I love how you said the twine story is an engaging way for people to learn and increase their attention. Once I wrote my own story, it was really helpful to look at the whole story first then break it apart. It will give the audience a sense of taste at the beginning. As the story goes along, they can choose whatever they feel or would like to see once they are in the story. It is a great tool for story learning because as you said the audience will not see the end directly without reading the story first. Sometimes, predict the ending can be boring. I would like to see your twine story which I did not find in your blog. Thank you!

Learning Objectives-Zihan Bai(Amy)

The Bad News game was super interesting to lead the audience to an active learning pathway. The audience can choose whatever road or stream that they want to go and will create different themes depending on what we choose. The one thing I like about it, the game did a really good job on the Spatial Contiguity principle because they always try to put pictures and words together. So, we can have a better understanding of the story that we are making. The other thing was the game gives the audience direct feedback to let them know what we are doing so far and how to improve it. It gives us guidance to gain more followers. One thing I think this needs to improve by adding a human voice or having a button to read aloud or read the comment out could be more fun.

My sketch note-taking is based on my psychology course this semester. I am trying to create the original text and content to a new form of text like using pictures instead of boring explanations and making a case study to a visual image. This way can help me apply to the Redundancy principle instead of distracting by long paragraph. I was taking all the keywords and put them into my way of memorizing them. My note is like a retrieval cue like once I saw the picture, I will know what is talking about in the lecture. I also used the Signal principle that highlights some keywords to help me remember. Symbols and pictures will create a more interesting context for reviewing and a new way to apply old knowledge.

The Process of Storytelling-Zihan bai(Amy)

Based on the lecture that the article “Storytelling: Bringing the power of stories to your teaching”, the author explains how to interact and efficiently tell the story. Video narrative could be more effective in encouraging students to backup the files on the laptops because it helps the narrator to remember what is going on in that story. The picture helping the narrator to trigger the stimuli and active the “mirror neuron” to make a flashback. The narrator could act as an audience to test his memory. However, the only problem is the file might be too big to save compared to audio. Audio is easier to save in different place no matter is a hard drive or backup app. But every time the narrator listens to his own story will create a different image out of the story, so it could make to a different understanding when he wants to create the story again.
Video narrative has its advantage so I do not want to judge about the less effective or more effective question. Individual difference creates a different preference norm, so depends on people’s learning style people might choose audio-only for less distraction. More pictures not only help to understand the story but also can lock people’s imagination into that “box”.
The two version narratives both highlight the segmenting principle which does give the audience option to pause the video/audio and go with their speed. Also, the personalized principle did raise the engagement on both forms because the professor using a slow and casual voice to describe the story. Our professor did use the redundancy principle in the video narrative to give a direct understanding by using pictures while he is talking. Overall, for education purpose teacher may combine both narratives to improve the quality.

Twine story:

https://web.uvic.ca/~rmccue/twine/amy-housing.html

 

Core multimedia skills 3A—(Zihan Bai)

-Firstly, I thought I need to work on dual coding and information processing to make short-term memory moving to long-term memory. Due to that thinking, I was using the split attention principle to make my add-on picture showing at the same time while I am talking about that concept. Then multiple questions represent after the picture because it will help to test whether the audience is engaging or not. Also, it can reflect how well they are learning.
-Secondly, I am using the redundancy principle to make both text/picture and sounds. If they want to look at the picture, the video will pause for the audience to look at it without too much information at once. I am giving the options if the audience prefers to listen and watch the video they can, but if they do not they can mute my mic and just look at a picture that pops up before multiple-choice.
-Thirdly, I am improving my spatial & temporal contiguity principle that the pop-up box has shown both picture and little text demo at the same time on the same page. So, audiences will not need to go back and force. At the same time, I am using the signaling principle to make important words red and let audiences pay close attention. Those small signals will give them the warning to let them know the pop quiz will test on it.
-Overall, I hope I think I make some changes to the original one and make it more interesting because I learn how to make a plan first before I dive into my video. I learn how important to think in the audience’s way and interaction can be beneficial through the learning.

Feedback for Sandra wang “H5p video blog”-Zihanbai (Amy)

Hey, my teammate Sandra! I like how you show the video about google drive and combined it with multiple choice. It is a very beneficial tool to use in a lesson video for teaching to check students’ engagement. This is a great example of the signaling and feedback principle about how people can get direct interaction by using online tools; and how people will highlight important information by using multiple choice.
The first part of the blog that you are talking about lesson plan it is matching my thought too. I think every teacher should have a clear multimedia lesson plan before creating the real lesson. It will make teacher easier to handle the unexpected situation and easier to control the speed of the lesson. Once teachers have a clear goal with well prepare lesson; even students are less engaging, it will be still under control and change to other stuff that they already prepared for.
The second part as I said before, is very well explained that how the H5P video connects with multimedia principles. I just want to add one more thought to this part. I think if you make the multiple-choice box bigger and change the word color it will be more interesting to help trigger the stimuli. Plus, the different colors will help the audience to look longer and easy to remember the content.
Overall, the blog page is well done! Maybe change the title to a clear one and make it more straightforward. I like how you use pictures and videos in the blog to create engagement. The page looks nice, clear, and simple to understand.

Evaluating Multimedia & Tools-Blog5 (Zihan Bai)

Multimedia is widely using in people’s daily life, so people are more likely to seek fast and easy technologies such as video, PowerPoint, WordPress, or some other online teaching tools. After I learned the SAMR model, I found that some of the paperwork in school can not just substitute for technologies. For example, I know a lot of teachers are using software or apps to create a test. It saves a lot of time because the computer is doing all the calculations for us. However, if there is one small error that carries out through the whole exam students will be more likely to get a zero. One small error can make a huge difference so the combined real person to go through it or repeat the process might be better just change to technologies. Another point is teachers need to pay more attention to the surface “substitution” part. If students can not get full engagement on the base level, then it is hard to dive into redefinition by using different technology tools.

Technologies give people more variety of learning methods. The strength of the SECTION model does explain how people can use select teaching and media tools base on students’ interests. For example, technologies can well support people who are blind or hearing disorder; then they can use either voice record method through online teaching. It is a better way to lower the cost of hiring a professional teacher and decrease stress when people are struggling to learn in a crowded environment. However, depends on the lesson or app that people are creating, it may increase the cost by time and retesting the lessons. Besides, because of the modern fast development of multimedia, it is a lack of privacy that teachers can control. Overall, teachers need to think it is necessary to use section model and multimedia or not, then create the lesson based on the needs.

 

360 tour in the library  based on Uvic:

https://web.uvic.ca/~rmccue/360/amy-bai/

Reference:

https://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/chapter/9-1-models-for-media-selection/

https://hookedoninnovation.com/2013/12/10/taking-a-dip-in-the-samr-swimming-pool/

The Design Process & Lesson Planning-Blog4(Zihan Bai)

Multimedia plans are very important before building an actual lesson. People should think deeply base on the “SECTIONS” model that the lecture explains. Nowadays, there are many multimedia lessons had well developed, so people should first make the lesson as fun as possible to catch the audience’s eyes without drying them out through the lesson. Brainstorm and detail plans will make teachers less frustrating if students lose interest or too difficult to follow. The teacher may easily change to another way of teaching this concept because they had fully prepared those outcomes. When people making plans, they should know how to interact with their audience that is related to the Ecological theory. This theory demonstrates how child development can interact with the environment and how environmental factors will influence children’s behavior (Paquette&Ryan, 2009). Therefore, if the teacher had made enough interactions with students, they will not only learn some knowledge through this lesson but also use this knowledge to apply future problems.

Videos with popup informational text boxes and embedded multiple-choice questions are a very unique way to reflect the knowledge that the audience had learn through that video. The multimedia media principle that we have used is signaling. The signaling principle is helping the audience to highlight the important concepts that we want them to pay attention to. Also, it can help the audience to reflect and self-regulation. If we put the text boxes or questions on the same page, at this point we are trying to emphasize the split attention principle. We are catching the audience’s attention on the same concepts without going back and forth. People can pose the video to do the questions and go at their own pace. Overall, text boxes and questions can use in a valuable way to test engagement.

Reference:

Paquette, D., & Ryan, J. (2001). Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory. https://dropoutprevention.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/paquetteryanwebquest_20091110.pdf

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-0-387-78414-4_146

Multimedia Learning Principles-Blog 3 (Zihanbai)

 

 

Multimedia is a very useful tool for presenting information or lessons. According to Dr. Ray Pastore’s video about multimedia learning principles, I realized his video did not use enough principles since he is explaining what the advantage and disadvantages base on those principles are. He did include three pictures, but he did not make the texts and pictures well balanced. His split attention theory is very weak in this video that using his face on the left screen is very distracting and hard to focus on his texts. Also, he did not do a good job on the redundancy principle. He did mention using both text and sound plus text and summary. However, he did not include that in his PowerPoint. Furthermore, about the heart picture that he did explain, it was very irrelevant information. He should use some picture examples base on his topic. Pictures and topic did not match can give misleading information (Ray Pastore, PH.D. Aug 2018).
People are using PowerPoint for teaching tools more often so in the classroom condition we like to make students or audiences more engage to our topic. Teachers or professors can use the split attention principle, redundancy principle, spatial & temporal contiguity, and signaling to make pictures and text on one page. The text should be short and have important words highlight on it. The teacher should explain the context or picture while he is talking. If students prefer to read by themselves, they can read the summary on the screen or if they prefer to listen they can listen to the prof and watch the picture.
Overall, if we combined all the elements that we had to learn from the video, we can make a full engagement art to help people to learn.

 

Reference:

-Ray Pastore, PH.D.  (2018, Aug 16). What is Multimedia Learning?  What is Multimedia? [ Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-sknUVq1mk

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