Weiwei Impressions

When completing this Bad News Game, I found that this game follows the personalization principle. Because the story’s content is based on a question-and-answer mode, it is like a conversation between characters. Also, this game follows the feedback principle. When you choose the wrong options base on your characters, you will lose your followers. This game is very ironic. When players exaggerate certain news, they will get more followers and higher credibility. However, when players choose some daily news, the feedback is boring and losing followers. When news media’s credibility is not true credibility, this is why we need to think critically about the news. In the end, this game also follows the Segmenting principle and Pre-training Principle, because players play the game steps by steps, and they will know the names and characteristics of the main concepts. In my opinion, this game does follow the signalling principle. The game could highlight the keywords as an improvement.

The below is my sketch note, this sketch note only shows the main part of this course. In my opinion, sketchnoting follows the self-explanation principle. This because people can learn better and deep thinking or summarize when they create the sketchnoting.

Sketchnoting can be helpful to students. Students can make sketchnoting as a weekly study summary or study plan before the semester. This will be fun when study feels boring studying. Also, Sketchnoting does not need high drawing skills.

There are some active learning methods are we using in EDCI 337:
Blog post: we need to think about the topic and create relative content.
Creating Twine stories: creating a twine story and highlight keywords can show some multimedia learning principles.
Creating interactive videos: creating some questions are related to the video.
Creating Powerpoint: creating PowerPoint can show some multimedia learning principles.

This is a TED video which I choose.

This video talks about how every couple can begin to manage their personal finance. Based on dual coding theory, cognitive load theory, and multimedia principles, I will introduce how these theories and principles work in this video.

Because this video is composed of images and sounds, the audience can process information through sight and hearing. For example, there is an image in the video, a couple, one manages finances, and the other does not manage them, and this person’s financial management capabilities will decline. This image helps audiences recall memories about people with low finance capabilities when audiences hear people do not manage finance. This conforms to the dual coding theory.

The video is about basic financial management concepts and guides to people who don’t have financial management concepts. Narration is better than text to avoid cognitive load theory. Thus, there is no cognitive load theory. 

Next, I will list some multimedia learning principles which are related to this video:

1. Modality principle: The learner can more successfully understand the information from the narrative.
2. Coherence principle: All the content in this video is related to the topic. It is like extending from no ability to manage money to break up in the future. The topic is all-around couple’s finance management.
3. Segmenting principle: This video is about couples’ financial management in segments. Such as personal financial management ability and couples‘ relationship in financial management.
4. Feedback principle: At the end of the video, three questions are given for the audience to think about, satisfying the Feedback principle.

Although this video does not follow the Embodiment Principle, this video is still very useful to people who begin to make finance management in relationships.

This is my interactive Twine story. In my opinion, lots of multimedia principles are related to this kind of story. First of all, the signal principle is very effective for this interactive story because Twine will underline important information and turning points, leading the story. This is very useful because prompts highlighting the text’s keywords will attract one of the people’s attention. People will also think about the next story when they click, making the audience more involved in the story. For example, I make a suspense story; this type of story is very suitable for interactive stories because audiences can have higher attention.

Secondly, The segmenting principle in Twine, the audience can learn better by segmenting. This principle is more beneficial than reading the whole story once. Because after each segment, people have the opportunity to think about the knowledge or information they have just acquired. This principle leads to more effective and deeper learning. In my suspense story, segmented reading can make people understand the changes in each plot. Although my suspense story’s plot is very normal, not special, reading in the segmented story can better attract and retain readers. This is because people cannot maintain long-term, uninterrupted learning. People can’t directly get to the end of the story; they need to read according to the information and plots have given by steps.

In order for educational or instructional purposes, take me as an example. I used to be very fat and spent a long time losing weight. I found that weight loss is divided into signals and segments (stage). Signals such as some food will be marked in red. Red foods are foods that I cannot eat. It is better to lose weight in stages so that I can encourage myself in stages. Make myself more confident.