Video

When creating this week's Moovly video project, I gave special consideration to those with visual/spatial and musical/rhythmic intelligence. When creating my slides, I made sure I included several pictures and spaced them in a way that was visually pleasing and easy to follow. In my use of multiple pictures, I made sure they were equal or complimentary sizes and aligned them evenly so as to avoid distracting and detracting from my message. When adding my impactful music clip, I made sure to fade the first sound clip out before fading the new music clip in. That way, it was pleasing to the ears and again, complimentary to my video's message as opposed to distracting.

Cynthia Brame's article entitled Effective Educational Videos provided very relevant tips for considering cognitive load, active learning, and engagement domain when creating video content. In terms of student engagement, Cynthia reminds us that "if the students don't watch the videos, they can't learn from them" (Brame, 1970). In order to make my video engaging, I followed this advice by keeping my video short and speaking with enthusiasm. 

In Ljubojevic, Vaskovic, Stankovic, and Vaskovic's study entitled Using Supplementary Video in Multimedia Instruction as a Teaching Tool to Increase Efficiency of Learning and Quality of Experience, I was reminded that using educational videos can influence motivation, satisfaction, and success in learning. "In order to efficiently process multimedia information it is necessary to select relevant information and organize it into a verbal and pictorial model" (Ljubojevic et al., 2014). As soon as I read this quote, I knew that my video would need to have carefully selected photos that help tell the story. I spent time making sure that each photo was engaging and matched the timeline and written content. 

References:

Brame, C. (1970, August 17). Effective educational videos. Vanderbilt University. Retrieved October 9, 2022, from https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/effective-educational-videos/#engage  

Ljubojevic, M., Vaskovic, V., Stankovic, S., & Vaskovic, J. (2014, June 30). Using supplementary video in multimedia instruction as a teaching tool to increase efficiency of learning and quality of experience. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning. Retrieved October 9, 2022, from https://eric.ed.gov/?q=advantages%2Band%2Bdisadvantages%2Bof%2Bdistance%2Blearning&pg=1557&id=EJ1033049