Category: Assignment 3 – Multimedia Skills

In the previous TED blog, I explained a TED video using multimedia learning principles. I want to change the TED video object in this blog because the previous video is not a very typical TED video. Lots of live audiences in the new TED video. I will analyze this TED video in the same way as before.

This is the new TED video:

This video is the most viewed in TED video. This video talks about how procrastination affects our decisions making and lives. In the video, the audience can process information through sight and hearing. For example, the histogram is used in the video to indicate the time allocated to write a paper. Along with the content of the speakers’ narration, the histogram shows the pressure caused by procrastination. This image can help audiences recall the effects of procrastination. This conforms to the dual coding theory.

Procrastination is something almost everyone knows, and the video does not provide deep psychological data and arguments. In the PPT, a lot of pictures and a small amount of highlight text are used. Most of the content is narration by the speaker. The narrative is better than words and can avoid cognitive load theory. Therefore, there is no cognitive load theory.

List some multimedia learning principles 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.
3. Segmenting principle: This video details the differences between procrastination or not. It also includes two types of procrastination.
4. Feedback principle: Because the audience will laugh or applause because of the speaker, this is the best feedback for the TED video.
5. Personalization principle: Audiences can feel as if they are having a conversation, and they will learn better because they try to understand.

TED video does not follow the Embodiment Principle, but this TED video is like a talk show, and the speaker usually needs to mobilize the atmosphere of the scene.

This is my Sketchnoting about making a TED video:

My first interactive video with H5P is about a lesson plan. This video only includes words and one simple interactive question, with no voice and no other explanation. Thus, I make some changes in order to provide a better multimedia interactive experience.

Firstly, I add narration to deepen the audience’s catch of the keyword. This is because audiences can learn better in the Modality principle, which means people learn better from pictures and narration than pictures and printed text. I use sound guidance to let the audience follow the narrative and learn new knowledge. Also, adding narration can attract more attention.

Secondly, I add an example of the HDI calculation. The example is related to Worked examples principle. People can learn better from the example provided. This is because providing examples can reduce the audience’s cognitive burden, especially learning new knowledge.

Finally, I change my H5P question, and I also add more H5P questions. In my about two minutes of video, I found that the previous interactive problem was too simple. Therefore, I have updated them to ensure the changes are more useful and detailed to the audience. In my goal, these interactive questions can make the audience understand my lesson plan more fully. The feedback principle has been used more accurately to improve questions because the audience receives feedback from the correct rate of multiple choices.

 

At the same time, I added an HDI graph in this post showing four tiers of development. Although I did not add this graph in the video, I added four levels of data to the video. For better multimedia principles, I add this graph in this word post, and multimedia principles help audiences understand knowledge from images and text. From this graph, we can understand the development prospects of different countries or regions on HDI.

Thus, I focus on the modality principle, the worked examples principle, the feedback principle, and the multimedia principles in this post to improve my explanation and help people understand HDI.