Category: Assignment 2 – Blog Feedback

Aliocha’s blog post is focused on a presentation video about Simone Biles that she created. The post also describes how the video follows multimedia principles, along with Do’s and Don’t from David Phillips talk on slides. I enjoyed reading the bullet point summary of multimedia principles followed and the mention of using Ariel font.

As Aliocha mentions, her video follows the Redundancy, Multimedia, Modality, and Signalling principles. In addition to this I enjoyed that it follows the voice principle, since there is a human voice presenting rather than a machine generated voice. I also liked that it followed the pre-training principle, since the video begins by explaining the key concept of who Simone Biles is.

Furthermore, Aliocha’s video follows Cognitive Load theory, since it does not have an overload of information on each slide and each slide has a discussion on one main concept.

I wonder if adding a personal touch would help to capture the learners attention. For example, saying “I am a big fan of Simone Biles because she is an inspiration for women in gymnastics”, since it would follow the personalization principle.

Overall this is a great blog post. I enjoyed reading it and watching the presentation!

Cory’s blog post discusses flow and examples of how it may be experiences. It also discusses the importance of dual coding, and challenges that are present without learning about it. I enjoyed reading this post and think it was well written because:

• There are several personal experiences given.
• The information is relatable. For example, admitting to making bad presentations in the past and then stating how this can be improved since learning about the theory. This follows the personalization multimedia learning principle
• The redundancy principle is also followed, since the information is presented in one format rather than multiple.

Perhaps making the source for the image would make the blog post more visually appealing. At first I thought it was the beginning of the references section.

I really like the concluding paragraph! Good job 🙂

This blog post is focused on describing why a lesson plan can help the teaching process, and also the application of multimedia principles to videos with embedded multiple-choice questions. I thought that multimedia principles were used in an effective way throughout it. For example:

• The interactive video follows the embodiment principle since the speakers image is not presented.
• I also really like the personal  preferences discussed in the video, such as how to save the unsplash image.
• Also, I believe that the video follows the prior knowledge principle, since it provides a brief introduction to unsplash that would not hinder expert learners.

I wonder if focusing more on the segmenting principle, which states that  people learn better when a multimedia message is presented in learner-paced segments, would help. If the embedded image was in-between the two paragraphs, I would find it less intimidating to read.

Really good post! I like the background colour 🙂