What are you hoping people learn?
I am hoping for people to learn more about types of birth control! I am almost 100% positive that most of us know what options we have, so this video is really just to show that there are so many and there is one for everyone. Though the video is short and I didn’t go too into depth about the types, maybe it’ll create an interest for someone and they can learn more on their own time!
What choices you made in creating a new video aimed at increasing knowledge transfer based on multimedia learning principles and related learning theories.
To reduce extraneous load:
Redundancy principle: To reduce extraneous, I opted to not include extra text on the screen as I was already narrating and included little pictures on each slide.
Coherence principle: I edited down the script a few times to make sure that I was saying was relevant and made sense. There was also a slight time crunch so I only included information I thought was the most important.
Signalling principle: On each slide there is a header that highlights which one of the four main types of birth controls will be spoken next. I also color-coded each type to match the main page in hopes to reduce cognitive load.
Contiguity principle: Each type of birth control has a little picture close to it of what it may look like. This also enforces the modality principle, where saying words and showing pictures is effective.
Voice principle and dual coding theory:
In my video, I explain (briefly) what each type is and what it may look like, while also providing images. This should help learners by using both systems involved in the dual coding theory, with one system that processes language, and the other processing images. Research also shows that human narration has more impact when learning:)
This was also my first time using screencast and making a video for a course! If I had to improve upon this video, I would try to fix some of the transitions between slides because for some reason in the video it went to the next one before I had actually finished the one I was on.
Video: