Multimedia and Graphics to Facilitate Deeper Learning

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Week 3: Help for Projects

If you are struggling with any aspect of creating your multimedia project, here is the place for seeking help from peers. Whether the problem is technical or related to learning research, ask here! Feel free to use multimedia or images to highlight areas of difficulty.

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  • karen   Oct. 31, 2011, 7:35 p.m.

    So for my project, I'm going to redo a short video I made about fractions (for grade 3-4) using hte principles we've learned here. Before doing so though, I'd like to get ideas and input from all of you.

    Here's the BEFORE video:

    http://vimeo.com/31404772

    Here are my thoughts/ideas:

    • Take out background music (coherence principle)
    • When showing things like parts of a fraction (numerator/demonimator),  parts of an apple, and parts of a group, highlight the important part. (signaling)
    • Possibly use colors to show numerator and denominator
    • Leave out text "how many pieces we're talking about" and "total pieces in the whole" (redundancy)
    • Leave out text "A fraction can show a part of a group." (Agree?)
    • Slow down. (segmenting)
    • In Your Turn activities, tell users to pause the video?
    • What should I do with graphics in Your Turn activities? Highlight when answer is given?
    • Concretizing - Do the examples I give relate to prior knowledge? I think so, but any other ideas?

    What other ideas do you have before I work on this? Thanks in advance.