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