Overview
This blog post contains my brief understanding of multimedia learning and my previous experience with multimedia and online learning. It also includes a brief introduction of myself.
Introduce Myself
Welcome to my blog. First of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Jingjing and I come from China. I am a sophomore at the University of Victoria. My major is economics. I am glad you came to visit my homepage. Please feel free to comment if you have any questions.
Reflections and Experience
Multimedia learning is a process that uses pictures, text or video as well as a series of multimedia applications. According to Mayer, multimedia learning environment is a design that facilitates learning that includes words or pictures. The kinds of multimedia learning we are familiar with are PowerPoints, videos, pictures, online speeches like TedTalk, YouTube. When I was in college, my professor asked us to go and watch some of these speak son TedTalk. Learners can not only understand the content through the sound and subtitles, but also capture the key points through the speakers’ body languages in the video or the audiences’ feedback, such as laughter. Here is an example from a YouTube video that shows how multimedia learning can make it easier to get help. To sum up, multimedia learning is an effective and easy to accept way of learning.
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References
Mayer, R. E. (Ed.). (2014). The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO978113954736
MobileCitizen. [MobileCitizen]. (2019, Nov 10). Interactive multimedia education using the mobile phone [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/9aV8bK9E0z0
Hi Jingjing, I am glad that I could visit your blog. Thank you for sharing about the learning tool experience. In your blog, I found many multimedia learning tools that I am also using, such as PowerPoints, YouTube, which we all know very well. YouTube, these learning tools, are primarily effective in improving our learning efficiency. As you shared the Ted talk, I enjoyed watching it when I first started learning English. Many excellent speakers share their learning experiences, life experiences, and even ways to improve learning efficiency, which provided significant help to my learning. I wonder if you can share some learning tools that not many people know, it will be conducive for people to have a chance to learn more about the new learning tools.
Hi Jialin,
Thank you for your comment and reply. Tedtalk is just one example of this as a learning tool. I don’t yet know of any tools that fewer people know about. In our age of advanced technology and Internet connectivity, there are many different kinds of online communication and learning tools. I will search for more information in this field and share it to readers.
Thanks!