Category: edci337-skills

For my multimedia improvement project, I decided to revamp a PowerPoint presentation from a global development course I completed last year. Analyzing this presentation with the knowledge of multimedia learning principles I have obtained through this class allowed me to recognize many areas of potential improvement. I have included both the original and revamped presentation below.

            On the first information slide, the main area of improvement was the use of bold text to organize the information and single out the main points more effectively. This concept ties into the Signaling & Coherence principles of multimedia learning. I utilized bold text to contrast the main points of the slide. I used the physical separation of the main points and the supporting pieces to move the audience around the information on the slide more effectively.

            On the second slide, I utilized numbers to organize my information. This addition also ties into Signaling and Coherence Principles. The use of numbering added a structure to the slide in which the audience can flow through. The text was also restructured to put the most important and expensive items at the top and the least at the bottom.

            On the third slide, I made the pie chart the key component of the slide. This ties into the Multimedia and Modality Principles. Visuals are more easily interpreted than text and this visual representation of the information is efficient for this slide. I also colour coded the supporting text to better relate the writing to the image.

            The fourth slide was originally very text heavy. With cognitive load theory and the redundancy principle in mind, I removed the text and included an image that overviews the main points being discussed on the slide.

            More relevant images were also included throughout the PowerPoint to better support the main ideas.

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