Dr. Ray Pastore mentioned 6 different multimedia learning principles in the video which are split attention, redundancy, coherence, spatial, signaling, and interactivity. And I think Dr. Ray Pastore follows the principles of split attention, spatial, signaling, and interactivity in his video. In my opinion, one of the most important reasons why an expert is not able to follow all principles in a multimedia learning object is that the expert needs to adjust the principles he needs to use according to his audience and the content of the topic. For example, when the teacher teaches elementary school students, the teacher needs to prepare many pictures and interesting games to make the students understand the subject. But when the teacher teaches some students with eye diseases, the teacher needs to use different methods and principles to make the students understand the knowledge.

We can apply the principles of multimedia, modality, signaling, split-attention, and spatial in our PowerPoint presentation.

The multimedia learning principle I have intuitively followed in the past is the signaling principle. I used bright colors to highlight the key terms in the slides so that the audience can access the key information of the slides easily.  On the contrary, I once violated the principle of split-attention. When I was preparing a presentation on how to prevent school violence, I put some wild animal photos in the PowerPoint. The purpose of these photos is to make my slides look more interesting but in the end, I found that some audience focused on the animal pictures instead of my speech.

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By understanding the Dual-Coding theory, we know that people can effectively learn new knowledge by receiving visual and verbal information at the same time.  This shows that when creating a PowerPoint presentation, we should use pictures and descriptions or short videos to make it easier for the audience to understand the content of the topic.

The reason we need to learn the Flow concept in this course is that we need to apply certain factors of the Flow concept to make the audience more attentive and focused on what they are learning. For example, we can design games related to teaching topics. Players can not only enjoy the fun of playing games, but also learn useful knowledge. It is easier for people to enter the “in the zone ” state by playing games than by reading books.

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In this course, I want to learn how to use interactive or multimedia learning skills to make my work more exciting and attractive. And one thing I’m not sure about this course is that we don’t know what software we need to learn to complete assignments. The game Rich’s son plays in the video is called Pandemic. The player’s goal is to use viruses or diseases to infect and kill everyone on the planet. I think the reason why the game is a good example of interactive and multimedia learning is that players are happy and actively learn how to spread viruses or diseases during the game and understand the measures that can effectively prevent the spread of viruses. And it reminds me of a game called “MindKing”, which is very popular among young Chinese. In each game, two players need to answer five questions. The player can get a high score if he spends less time on the question, the player will get zero if he gets the wrong answer. Finally, the player with the higher score will win. The questions in the game come from history, geography, biology, physics, astronomy, chemistry, literature, and common sense of life. Through this game, I have learned knowledge of many different subjects, and the game also has improved my motivation to learn new knowledge through rewards.

The Chinese game called “MindKing”