Hi Zhihao Wang,
I feel so impressed when I read your blog 1 about Multimedia and interactive learning. You shared an informative video to explain its concept and application. I totally agree with you that online teaching with multimedia tools can improve our learning environment. Like the blog we are using now, we can easily get access to it and mark down the keynotes. Classmates can leave their positive comments and feedback to improve our learning efficiency. However, online multimedia learning has its disadvantages. When we are learning in the traditional class, teachers can have more interactive teaching methods, such as think-pair-share and buzz session. Teachers can participate into their discussion and give immediate feedback and instruction. However, in online courses, we cannot even know what our classmates look like, which, more or less, decreases our interests in group discussion.
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Hi Yixuan,
I am so glad to read your blog about your feelings towards online multimedia learning. You proposed great ideas that blog can improve our writing organization in a certain methods. And we can definitely gain opinions from the comments written by peers or like-minded friends. From my perspective, this kind of learning method can also improve our creativity and aesthetic judgment. When we are posting our blog, we are actually doing more than expressing our ideas. We need to design the page and try to add more visual and auditory elements to impress our readers.
I am sorry I found that I mistook the first blog and the second blog. Therefore, here in this blog, I would mainly tell you guys something about me.
Hi everyone. My name is Zhaohan Tan. I was born in Harbin, China in 2000. My hometown is extremely attractive since it is a prosperous and dynamic city. Mixed with Russian culture, this city broadens my learning and inspirational horizons since I was young.
When it refers to my personal interests, I like cooking very much. I join a local cooking club and it arranges two online classes a week. It teaches nutrition, color matching and food ingredient with multimedia tools. When I have problems during cooking, I can have interactive feedback and assistance from my group mates in time.
In addition, I am keen on doing sports on a regular basis. For example, I go to the gym every two days. I keep jogging and yoga for a long time. It is not easy to keep learning different sports literacy. Besides, I make more and more like-minded friends. We set the time and do sports together. Sometimes, we share some decent instructional videos and blogs to keep healthy.
By the way, I like animals very much. For example, I have two dogs in my family. One is called “blacky”and the other is called “lucky”. They are my best friends and stay by my side. Sometimes, I would like to go to the zoo to see them in person. Whenever I look at the animals, I feel peaceful and comfortable.
I always like traveling. I enjoy planning the routines for a new place. I would search online about the local food and accommodation, in order to get the best experience traveling there. During the traveling, I would like to write a diary and take pictures. Traveling enables me to experience the culture differences in the world.
Currently, this is my third year studying in University of Victoria, majoring in economics. I am always keen on reading certain books related to social development and economic changes.
As for this course, I hope to attain more useful knowledge about multimedia management. Multimedia learning is necessary in our daily life and it is important for us to know how to learn effectively with interactive skills and multimedia tools.
Looking forward to meeting and working with you guys in the following weeks!
Blog One : My Thoughts on Interactive and Multimedia Learning
In this week’s reading materials, I have access to certain basic principles of multimedia learning and how interactivity used for better teaching in the classroom to enhance teaching efficiency.
To begin with, Mayer (2009) proposed twelve important principles of multimedia learning. His words give a new perspective in certain ways. Firstly, he proposes the coherence principle and argues that when teaching, teachers should not include too much non-related elements in the lesson plan, such as background music. Previously, I thought both acoustical and visual elements are important in the multimedia class. I mistakenly thought the more teachers used these elements, the better students learn better. However, through the principles provided by Mayer, I get to know the key multimedia elements and ratio.
Besides, I learn that interactive teaching is beneficial for students in the classroom, such as brainstorming, think-pair-share, buzz session, incident process, and Q&A sessions. For example, when teachers assign brainstorming questions or videos before class, they lead students to arouses their interests and think about related elements in today’s topic. During the class, think-pair-share teaching method can also motivate every student to participate in the topic discussion and get peer feedback and support. Generally speaking, these interactive skills boost students to participate into the class more actively.
Reference
Mayer, R. E. (2009). Multimedia learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
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