Games and Simulation Principle

Games and Simulation Principle- games should be aligned with the learning goals in order for the games to be effective. This is a marketing game for business. The learning goals are definitely aligned.

Gaming and Simulations Principle

Thinking Skills Principle

Thinking Skills Principle- Makes instructional methods that make each process explicit for the learner.
This a great example of this process. The procedures are explicit.

Thinking Skills Principle

Learner Control Principle 4

Learner Control Principle 4  This gives the learner more pacing control. The learner tends to lean to exercises at their own pace. The learner does simulations at their own pace.

Learner Principle 4

Learner Control Principle 1

Learner Control Principle 1- This principle gives experience learners control.
This allows the learner to have some control over the learning environment.

Learner Control Principle 1

Practice Principle 2: Mirror the Job

Practice Principle 2: Mirror the Job-  requires learners to respond in similar ways during training in a work environment.  - This is a great example of Practice Principle 2: Mirror the job.

Practice Principle 2: Mirror the Job

Practice Principle I

Practice Principle 1 : Add Sufficient Practice-  engages students with instructional content and practice to to achieve the learning goal.  This example gives added sufficient practice.

Practice Principle 1: Add Sufficient Practice

Another example of Worked Principle (#2)

Worked Example of Principle 2: Promote Self-Explanations is an interaction often multiple choice in e-learning-that requires the learners to review the worked out steps in the process and understand the rationale behind the steps taken.
This example gives the rationale behind the steps taken.

              

Worked Example of Principle 2: Promote Self Explanation

Worked Example Principle

Worked Example Principle is a step by demonstration of how to perform a task or solve a problem.

This screen shot gives an accurate example of a Worked Example Principle.

Worked Example Principle

Personalization Principle 2

Personalization Principle 2 uses onscreen characters who help guide the learning process. This is an animated character that guides the user.

Personalization Principle2

Personalization Principle 3

Personalization Principle 3 - the instructor promotes motivation, this principle allows for the instructor to be shown or speak to assist in increasing the motivation of the user.

Personalization Principle 3

Coherence Principle 3

Coherence Principle 3 recommends that you remove excessive words to a lesson. This may cause poorer learning and retention. Their are too many words that are excessive on the page.

Coherence Principle 3

Coherence Principle 2

Coherence Principle 2  says that we should avoid adding unnecessary pictures that would interfere with the learners attempt make sense of the presented materials. The example meets the principle, it has too many pictures.

Coherence Principle 2

Exploring Multimedia

Google Lit Trip

Exploring Multimedia

I decided to create a Google Lit Trip for my students. I decided that I would use the book 

Meet Addy by Connie Porter. This Lit Trip could be used when studying  Fiction novel. 

I began by viewing several YouTube videos on Google Lit Trips to get an idea of how to proceed in creating my project.  I read  several articles exploring the topic. 

This is a historical fiction novel for 3^rd-5^th graders. The story is a about a young slave girl named Addy and her family who are also slaves. The story takes place during the height of the Civil War.  Her family decides to create a plan to escape from a plantation in North Carolina to freedom in Philadelphia.  Addy’s father and brother are sold before the family could escape.  Addy’s and her mother proceeds with the plan. 

I decided to create a lit trip that would follow the paths of Addy and her family to freedom.  The novel is fiction, so I decided to do a little preliminary research on plantations in North Carolina. There were two that stood out, Stagville Plantation and Somerset Plantation. Addy and her mother crossed a river to get to the safe house that her father told them about.  In doing more research, I found a river that was not very far from the Somerset Plantation. In the story Addy and her mother had to cross a fast flowing river to get to the safe house. In researching rivers, I found the Scuppernong River which is not very far from the Somerset plantation.  Ms. Caroline the lady who owns the safe house in the story, hid them in a wagon and took them to the coast where they could stowaway on a ship to Philadelphia. I also imagined that Ms. Caroline lived near the coast in Pea Ridge, North Carolina which is near the Albermarle Sound in North Carolina, close to the coast.

After researching these areas and choosing the plantations and other places in the story, I created a story board. The story board allowed me to write out all the places and addresses before creating the lit trip in Google Earth.  This was a big step in assisting me with the creating the lit trip.  I screen captured several steps during the process. 

Below are several screenshots of my Google Lit Trip using Google Earth

Screenshots of my Google Lit Trip

 Google Earth downloaded

 

Plantation where Addy and her parents were slaves. Somerset Plantation

The Plantation where Addy's father and brother were sent after being sold. Stagville Plantation

The fast flowing river that Addy and her mother almost drowned trying to cross. 

Scuppernong River

How To Take Care of Library Books

Purpose: To teach my Kindergarten -Second Grade students how to take care of library books.


Audience: Kindergarten- Second Grade students


Tools used to create the Podcast:  I used music from Free Music Archive this site offers music under Creative Commons; Audacity was used for recording and editing my podcast; VLC media was used to convert my WAV file to a MP3; and Internet Archive to upload and create a file to be embedded in Blogger.


Reflection: Creating this project was definitely a learning experience. I had never worked with so many tools and sites at one time. Audacity was very challenging having to use several editing tools, but I pushed through and created a project for my students to use this school year.  I was proud of myself for creating this project.  I hope in the future to create more.

Project 2: Screencast

Project 2: Screencast

Title: PebbleGo for Students

Audience: Second and Third Grade Students

Purpose: To teach students how to use PebbleGo database to do research on various topics.

My Uses: I will use this screencast to teach my students how to research various subjects using

PebbleGo. I will also use this video to teach my teachers how to use PebbleGo with their students.

My Learners’ Uses: I will email the teachers the link to the screencast so they can view it with their students on the Promethean Board. I will also place this video on the school's website under the Media Center to show students and parents how easy the database can be navigated to find information needed for various projects.

PebbleGo for Students

Segmenting Principle

Segmenting Principle-  This principle applies when the presenter separates a very large lesson into sections in order for the information to be retained better.  This graphic meets the principle and it is  in various segments.

Segmenting Principle

Personalization Principle

Personalization Principle 1- The Personalization Principle uses first and second -person language and on screen characters.  This graphic meets the Personalization principle and it uses an agent and is also using first person language.

Personalization Principle

Coherence Principle # 1

The Coherence Principle #1-   The Coherence Principle is defined as keeping unwanted sound, text or graphics that are not needed. This means to make your presentation less cluttered with sound, visuals, and text that you do not need. This meets the Coherence Principle#1.

Coherence Principle#1

First Five Multimedia Design entries

The Multimedia Principle- The Multimedia Principle is described as combining text and graphics, not just using text alone. An example of this Principle is PebbleGo database that is used with our lower grade students. K-3. The screen shot below is an example of the Multimedia Database. This database shows the principal that has text and graphics displayed on the same page. Please click on the link listed below show the database. You must email me directly for the username and password.

Multimedia Principle


Contiguity Principle#1 -The Contiguity Principle is described as making sure the graphics are aligned with it's definitions of the graphics labeled. An example can be found on SIRS Discoverer. This is found through Galileo Kids a free database for the students in the Georgia school systems. The screen shot below describes and labels  the Concussion of the Brain and what happens to the brain. Please click on the link below and type in brain concussions and click on Images on the far left side. Scroll and find the picture below.

SIRS Discoverer

Contiguity Principle #2- The Contiguity Principle 2 can be described as graphics and text are not separated but near the graphics posted. An example is listed below. This meets requirements of the principle because the text is near the graphic showing the solar panels and what they can do on a hut in Niger.

Contiguity Principle#2


Modality Principle  Modality Principle can be described as using speech rather than on screen text totally. In the BrainPop video audio describes the Presidential Election. The narrator Tim is explaining the process to the viewer.  He is actually narrating the process. Click on the link to hear the narration. Please email me for the username and password.

Modality Principle

Redundancy Principle #2   Redundancy Principle 2 is described when there are not many visuals and the content is available with redundant narration. This can be found several times in PowerPoint presentations. View the example below of the PowerPoint presentation that would be used in an Orientation for students at the beginning of the school year. There are limited visuals and the narrator would be repeating what is written on the slides. I have screen shot a few slides to give examples. I am unable to link the full presentation on this site.