After this week, I have learned that are many essential components that go into designing a learning plan for multimedia to be successful. To produce quality multimedia lessons, it is integral that well thought out lesson plans are used in the design process. In an interview with Kathy Alexander, she reasons that the strongest multimedia lessons consider the needs of all learners. Common mistakes come when students are not engaged with the lesson and find the content is too difficult or too easy. A well-thought-out lesson plan would consider these pitfalls and ensure that the learns are excited and can connect with the content. To increase engagement with content online, it is essential that educators analyze and understand what learning initiatives are most useful to students and find ways to capitalize on these opportunities.
After adding popup informational text boxes and embedded multiple-choice questions, I have incorporated a couple more learning principles into my video. Adding pop-ups has increased the split attention principle, as adds picture and text representation on the screen. It has also contributed to the coherency principle, as the popups and textboxes are relative and near the same information that I am presenting on the screen.
Alexander, K. (2017b). Lesson Plans – Interview with Kathy Alexander [Mp3]. https://soundcloud.com/user-433569679/lesson-plans-interview-with-kathy-alexander
