Category: Assignment 2 – Blog Feedback

I really liked how you utilized the personalization principle because when I was reading your blog it felt as if we were having a conversation rather than a formal style. I think this is very effective as the reader is much more inclined to retain the information and be willing to read it and learn it. I also liked that you used the worked examples principle because you not only explained why Twine was effective, but you gave an instance it could actually be utilized in to help the reader see the value in Twine.

I think you could improve by using the segmenting principle because the blog is one continuous unit and I think breaking it up into different points would just make it easier for the reader to follow and grasp.

Overall, great job. I especially loved your twine story!!

References: https://sydneyellis.opened.ca/2021/03/05/topic-7-the-importance-of-storytelling/ 

I liked how you used the coherence principle in your blog post because it allows for the reader to really see the main points that you are trying to get across. You didn’t add any unnecessary extraneous information to confuse or overcomplicate and I think that it was very effective. Adding onto this, I liked how it was only presented in one format (the bullet points) because as the reader I feel like it was easier to follow than if you had presented it in more than one format.

I think that you could have improved your blog by utilizing the signalling principle, specifically where you had your bullet points. I think it would have been effective to bold or highlight the different principles just to break up the post a little bit and not have it all merge into one. 

Overall, great job!!

References: https://xinyili.opened.ca/2021/03/21/active-learning/ 

I really liked how you utilized the multimedia principle in your post by having relevant images that related to your ted talk and your writing. I feel that I was able to understand better from having both words and pictures and understand the Ted Talk more effectively. I also liked that you used the pre-training principle by talking about the different elements of the Ted Talk in your post first, and then having the Ted Talk incorporated at the end. This allows for the reader to feel more educated on the talk before actually watching it.

I think you could improve by incorporating the signalling principle. It would have been nice if you highlighted or bolded some of the points in your post that you found to be most important so that the audience could have a takeaway.

Overall, great job on your post!

References: https://summerliu.opened.ca/review-of-a-ted-talk/  

I thought you explained your answers to the prompts very thoroughly and they were very easy to understand and grasp. Your video was so well rehearsed, and your explanation made a challenging software like excel, more straightforward and less intimidating. I think the skill you were teaching as well is a life skill that everyone should know how to do and is something that I will find useful in the future.

In your video you gave a great explanation of how to calculate all of the measures of central tendency, and I would have liked if at the end of you video you had given a quick summary of how you did so or a concluding point as it felt like the video ended quite quick. Sometimes, having that concluding point is a nice takeaway for the listener and I think it would have strengthened the video.

References:

https://sydneyellis.opened.ca/2021/01/29/multimedia-learning-principles/

I thought you made some great points as to why you would add relevant pictures and videos to your future slide presentations. I completely agree that having pictures on a presentation and less text makes them much more effective and much more engaging and enjoyable for the audience. I also liked how you included a video on your blog post as it simplified Dual Coding Theory and the video had some great visuals which helped explain the concept in a compelling way.

You mentioned that you think hypothesis is one of the tools that helps us learn interactively, and I would have liked to know why you think this, or an explanation to back this up I think would have strengthened the last paragraph of your post.

References:

https://xinyili.opened.ca/2021/01/24/effective-way-of-learning/

I thought you did an awesome job of explaining the reason to create a lesson plan before hand and the different parts that need to be incorporated. The photo you included was a nice addition and related to what you were saying which I really appreciated.

You included an interactive video on your blog post, however when I tried to play the video on both safari and chrome, it read “Video unavailable, this video is private” which can be slightly frustrating for the viewer. I think that making this video accessible to the viewer would have been nice and I think would have added to your post.

References:

https://summerliu.opened.ca/using-h5p-to-create-an-interactive-video/