Of all the principles of Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning we looked at this week, which seem intuitive to you?

The extraneous load due to redundancy seems the most intuitive to me since as a learner myself I have experienced getting confused over a video and find it hard to follow up. Sometimes I would try to follow up with the video but end up finding it extremely messy and hard to follow with no clues of anything that’s ever going on because I am overwhelmed with all the information design that do not give me any clue of the topic, I wished that it was more ‘clean’ and straight on the point. There, looking at the redundancy principle I instantly realized why I was confused so much and what these videos needed to do better. It is very important to not mislead and overwhelm the learner with extra load of unneeded information

Which ones surprised you the most?

the contiguity principle definitely surprised me because I always thought we need to separate pictures and words and not make it cram together which could be considered a bad design instead of making things spaced out evenly.

Which principles did you have in mind when you were creating your screencast this week?

definitely redundancy principle since it hit me the most, even before this lesson i kind of know a little bit of not putting too much stuff anywhere, after this lesson it had confirmed me that I should not add unnecessary text or put repeat information. Another is contiguity since I realized I never payed any attention toward that area of layout. these two principles would help to ensure that the video you make is clear and precise.

Choose one of the Read/Watch resources this week and compare it to the principles we’ve learned this week. What principle(s) does it exemplify?

take screen casting website for example, it gave resourceful information and guidance, however it is overwhelming in that the load is too much, extraneous load is getting overwhelming, after all the introductions of how to use it, student should be able to get a good idea of how things are working and the website should let it sink in, however it pushes too much by giving a full list of 24 things we should do after the basic tutorial which could be messy to handle for new learner since it is too much information. with reference to Sweller’s Cognitive Load Theory about limited capacities, we can say that at the introductory phase of learning something, try not overwhelm the learners as their capacities are limited.