Category: Assignment 1 – Midterm Review – Module 1&2 Blog Posts and Comments

Accessibility with WAVE

After inserting my first post URL into WAVE, I found that WAVE pointed out many of my shortcomings regarding accessibility. For example, my font color lacks contrast, and alternative text is missing in many places. I was surprised by the number of questions like this that I wasn’t aware of before. Changes to the above issues have made my blog more accessible, this also allows my posts to be seen by more people.

Text to Speech/Screen Readers:

I read my first post using a text-to-speech tool. During this period, I tried closing my eyes and listening to feel the difference. I’ve found that while text-to-speech is a great tool for helping people with dyslexia, it’s not entirely perfect. Because the reading voice is more robotic and lacks inflection and tone. And it cannot filter and distinguish article topics and annotation symbols. This makes reading more difficult.

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Module 2 Design Principles for Effective and Accessible Multimedia

 Most intuitive theory:

From all the theories we have learned, i feel that the most intuitive theory is the cognitive load theroy and it suprises me. It explains the differences between long-term memory and intrinsic load. From the video i learned that humans have limited space of working memory. If one kind of memory load increases, then another kind of memory load might decreases. Everything we learned will create some kind of cognitive load through eyes and sound.

Principle in mind:

Signaling principle is the principle in my mind when creating my screencast. I have highlighted the important part and details by appling this principle to gain the attention from my viewer. Also, i have used redundancy theroy of applying images in order to explain the meaning to viewers. It was a challenge to choose the most appropriate images and the simplest ones for my explaining.

Audience for this screencast:

I used my classmates as an imaginary audience, which allowed me to speed up my explanations as I went through my screencast because I thought most of my classmates were in my age range and they were quicker at picking up new things.

Learning principle that have intuitively followed in the past:

I have been following the coherance theroy in my past . i would always add background music for my slides. However, i have temporal contiguity as i always explain my graphic on the next slide.

Creating my screencast:

i creat my screencast using a software called filmage screen. It is a powerful tool for recording. My cast is about ‘how to use google docs’, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of googld docs in our real life.

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Module 1: Theories of Multimedia Learning