Hi Yicheng:

Thanks for sharing your Blog 1:

It’s my pleasure to brainstorm and share ideas with you on Blog one, we discussed a lot about how to make a screencast and stay focus on the learning purpose, in your speech, you clearly explained how Notability could be used as a powerful note taking tool that benefit education in various ways. If you often go to class at UVIC, you will notice that almost 80% of students in our school use electronic devices to take notes instead of traditional papers, and some students still using traditional paper might just not familiar with note taking notes, your speech could defiantly influence those beginners just like you mentioned in your post. Also, I have to give your credit on how you use “Pretraining Principle” and “Redundancy Principle” properly in your speech to keep it easily for students or whoever watch this video could really understand what are you actually teaching and gain knowledge from it.

Further suggestion:

You mentioned that “Signaling Principle’s implementation was difficult, however you could consider do a screencast on a MacBook and design carefully, I try to do the screencast on IPAD too, and I found out do it on a lab top is more convenient and not messed up, also, just like you mentioned under my Blog, it’s challenge to ensure good signaling and modality, achieve the ideal balance between narration and visuals, however, as semester goes on, I am pretty sure we will figure those problems out, again, thanks for the help, it’s my pleasure to work with you.

Link:

EDCI337 BLOG#1 – edci337 (opened.ca)