Of all the principles of Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning we looked at in this module, which seem most intuitive to you? Which ones surprised you?
The signaling principle seems most intuitive to me because this is what I often use in my study. As a university student, when I try to take notes for long-time classes, I like to organize my notes by using headers and sub-headers to make them logically clear and easy to review. I also learned cognitive load theory in one of my psychology classes, which helped me understand why the signaling principle can be used to reduce extraneous cognitive load. I am surprised by principles that are related to social cues, and the reason is that I didn’t realize these factors have an influence on our learning process, especially the personalization principle. I did not expect that using conversational language would help people learn. I am curious about how this principle works to promote learning and to what extent can this principle affect the learning process. However, in my perspective, this principle is hard to apply in real-life academic settings since being too natural or conversational in speaking results in losing some academic features such as scientific nature.
Which principles did you have in mind when you were creating your screencast? Which were you able to employ and which were more challenging to follow?
For the screencast, I explained the function “VLOOKUP” that can be used in Excel. Image principle, voice principle, and segmenting are three principles I had in my mind when I was creating my screencast. I didn’t put my image on the screen, and I found that it helped me to focus more on explaining as well. I also used my voice to explain the function in screencast. In terms of segmenting, I used four different colors to highlight four different elements that are contained in my function. It is important for audience to understand these four elements in order to use the function; therefore, I tried to mark them in different colors and explain them one by one, which might help the audience to memorize. I also want to employ personalization principle; however, I found it was challenging to do it during recording. This may be because English is not my first language, and I was a little nervous during recording.
I hope everyone found this video useful!
Correct two small spelling mistakes in video here: 1. citry– city 2. lookup velue– lookup value
victoriaedci
2023-09-30 — 7:23 pm
Hi,
Similar to you, I used the signaling principle a lot in my studying as well, it is very useful as it allows me to divide information and chunks and highlight important information. I do agree with you that the personality principle may be hard to apply in a real academic environment. I think it is hard since for some facilities it is hard to not use academic language when the professor needs to introduce specific terms. Also, it is hard to create a relaxed environment for large audience lectures. For the screen-casting video, I like that you use different colors (signaling principle) for grouping so that learners can distinguish the terms easily.