Multimedia learning principles that apply to a PowerPoint presentation in a classroom
Two of the most important purposes for class demonstration are to assist the instructor in class and make students understand the contents of the class well. Classrooms with only one-sided text output are relatively boring. Therefore, in order to make the course more interesting and rich in content, the combination of words and pictures is a very effective way. Using Multimedia Principle can let students understand through words and match pictures to feel more intuitively, so as to achieve the purpose of deepening the impression. In addition, the Personalization Principle can also be applied well in classroom presentations. It is more effective to transform academic concepts and formal styles into more acceptable expressions on a daily basis.
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A personal example that break the principles of multimedia learning
Multiple visual and auditory stimuli could help me remember the key points of the course effectively. Therefore, animation principle does not work for me. When I learned about income discrepancy in North America in the last semester, I could not have a very clear understanding of the broad concept only through the bar chart in the presentation and the textbook. However, in Optional Video, this social phenomenon was demonstrated in the dynamic form of animation, which left me a deep memory. Overall, multimedia learning principles also need to be considered in a critical and objective way according to specific conditions.