About this blog

This blog will document my journey through instructional multimedia design and development.

Required Text   Clark, R. C., & Mayer, R. E. (2011). E-learning and the science of instruction: Proven guidelines for consumers and designers of multimedia learning. San Francisco: Pfeiffer. TextMap: Clark & Mayer (2011)  

• Available FREE online at through UWG GALILEO’s ebrary service: Go here, and type the name of the book in the search field: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/westga/home.action  If this doesn’t work, check out this video where I walk you step by step: Video: Accessing E-learning Text.  
• To access the Clark & Mayer (2011) text, use the current UWG GALILEO password to access. The current password is displayed on the home page of CourseDen (before you enter a specific course).  Select the “Read Online” option to read directly on your computer.  Or, you may find it useful to download a chapter at a time (though there may be limits to how many pages or chapters you can download).

Instructions: Multimedia Design Journal

Purpose

The Multimedia Design Journal is to engage with and apply concepts from course readings.  

Timeline

You will be curating examples of various multimedia concepts throughout the semester, and you will submit your design journal during the last session of the course.

Format

Your journal will be delivered via a blog, wiki, or website.  I can recommend you use Blogger, Wikispaces (through wiki.westga.edu), or Google Sites, as these are university-supported tools.  You can also use an outside tool.  Just keep in mind that your work should be visible to classmates, and the easiest way to guarantee both visibility and privacy would be to use a university-supported tool.

Design-Related Posts

Throughout the semester, as we read through the Clark & Mayer text, you will be tasked with providing examples of the concept highlighted.  In total, you need to provide 20 examples from the list that follows.  For each example, you are to provide the following:

• a screenshot of the principle in action,
• a descriptive URL where the example originated,
• a brief definition of what the principle is (in your own words), and
• an explanation of how the example does or does not meet the principle.  

Each post should have a unique URL dedicated to that particular topic.

Here are the 20 design-related posts you need to create:

1. Multimedia Principle

2. Contiguity Principle #1

3. Contiguity Principle #2

4. Modality Principle

5. Redundancy Principle #2

6. Coherence Principle #1

7. Coherence Principle #2

8. Coherence Principle #3

9. Personalization Principle #1

10. Personalization Principle #2

11. Personalization Principle #3

12. Segmenting Principle

13. Worked Example Principle (choose 1)

14. Worked Example Principle (choose another)

15. Practice Principle (choose 1)

16. Practice Principle (choose another)

17. Learner Control Principle (choose 1)

18. Learner Control Principle (choose another)

19. Thinking Skills Principle (choose 1)

20. Games and Simulations Principle (choose 1)

See an Example

For an example of what a blog post meeting expectations might look like, see my Personalization Principle #1.  

Important Notes

You should use examples that are publicly available.  There are lots of examples of e-learning on the web.

Be polite in your description of how the example does or does not meet.  Keep your tone professional and constructive.

Use your own words.  Or, to put it another way, do not plagiarize.  You are graduate students, and you know by now that you need to credit others for their ideas (see my example, where I do this).  If you are quoting from a source, use quotation marks, and APA format to appropriately cite your source. (If it is easier, you could create a single “Reference” page where you have citations for any references. An appropriate reference on such a page would be to the E-Learning textbook).

Deadlines (2 deadlines for 2 submissions)

See the Course Plan, linked inside of CourseDen, for specifics.  Your empty (incomplete but set up) design journal is due at the end of Session 1 (“Multimedia Design Journal Setup”). Your completed Multimedia Design Journal is due near the end of the course (“Dropbox: Multimedia Design Journal”). .    

Submission (2 parts)

Multimedia Design Journal Setup (Session 1 submission)

To submit your initial multimedia design journal, simply complete the following form, providing your name and the URL link to the Multimedia Design Journal:

Form: Multimedia Design Journal Link

Dropbox: Multimedia Design Journal (Session 4 Submission)

Submit a link to your completed Multimedia Design Journal to the Assignment Dropbox: Multimedia Design Journal inside of CourseDen.

Grading Criteria for Multimedia Design Journal Setup (5 pts)

More Grading Criteria on Next Page

Grading Criteria for Dropbox: Multimedia Design Journal (80 pts)