Graphic Design

The recent reading has been intriguing as I’ve always enjoyed the idea of graphic design and seeing how different people’s ideas differ so vastly. While I do not have much experience with graphic design I’m excited to explore the topic. Working on finding the right ratios and how to cater to them in a way that doesn’t create a cognitive overload for someone trying to understand. Mayer’s principle becomes important to think of during this as you don’t want to overdo the images to go along nor the words. 

Powerpoints

The “How to avoid death By Powerpoint” Presentation I found useful as it helped me see a lot of mistakes I’ve made in the past with presentations. The redundancy effect was interesting as I have experienced this myself with teachers in the past and this helped explain it very well. His points in the headline made me think about how I’ve used them in the past and I see how I can improve in the future to help to manage the cognitive load and direct people’s attention. In past presentations I’ve found I used too many objects, the presentation puts into perspective just how important it is to not overload your presentation. As a whole using these points to improve my PowerPoint in the future will be important as it creates a better experience all around.

After watching this I decided to make my own attempt at a simpler slideshow than I have done in the past. Using the Unsplash website as recommended by the video ‘Creating WordPress MultiMedia posts’ helped a lot with high-quality images. I tried following the rules I learned from this slideshow as well as some color theory with my choices. This helped me understand the simplification a lot better and I will use these points in the future

Slideshow

Merrill’s Principles

Merril’s principles brought up points that can be seen in real-life examples which I have personally been part of in a real situation. The first point “Learning is promoted when learners are engaged in solving real-world problems” was my favorite as the idea of gradually increasing the difficulty and losing the “sink or swim” mindset helps those learning understand an idea a lot easier and more effectively. From my experience, I believe that much of schooling still follows old principles which do not reflect as much promotion in the growth of knowledge in the ways stated here. While I’ve seen these principles used a few times reading into them helps give me insight into how I could portray myself when teaching something new. It has also brought up several points we have discussed in this course such as having relevant media which I found interesting.

Sources:

Cuevas, N. (2022, January 11). What every brand needs to know to use color effectively – Adobe Inc.. Adobe Express. Retrieved February 20, 2023, from https://www.adobe.com/express/learn/blog/what-every-brand-needs-to-know-to-use-color-effectively

Merill, D. (2019, December 19). Merrill’s first principles of instruction. James Greenwood. Retrieved February 19, 2023, from https://www.james-greenwood.com/instructional-design/toolkit/merrill/#:~:text=The%20premise%20of%20Merrill%E2%80%99s%20first%20principles%20of%20instruction,principles%20are%20necessary%20for%20effective%20and%20ehttps://www.james-greenwood.com/instructional-design/toolkit/merrill/#:~:text=The%20premise%20of%20Merrill%E2%80%99s%20first%20principles%20of%20instruction,principles%20are%20necessary%20for%20effective%20and%20efficient%20instruction.%E2%80%9D%28p44%29fficient%20instruction.%E2%80%9D%28p44%29

Paskevicius, M. (2022, October 5). Creating WordPress multimedia posts. YouTube. Retrieved February 19, 2023, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXUz6mCd0Pg