ELRC 7505: Module 6—Segmenting and Pretraining Principles

Description of Worked Example 

With the shift of doing everything digitally, it’s becoming more and more relevant that something so easy to operate is also something we’ve blindly dismissed in how to troubleshoot.  The worked example topic I chose to describe was how to troubleshoot volume settings, and the audience is directed towards users operating a windows device.  In the video, I have six steps listed and each step is presented on a new screen to draw the learner's attention (p. 255).  However, all six of these steps do not need to be completed every single time.  I viewed this worked example in a way that if the previous step does not work to solve your problem, continue forward to the remaining steps until you reach a solution.

Skills Developed Along the Way 

The worked example I provide aligns with the principles Clark & Mayer have shared throughout the semester.  I believe I incorporated elements of each of the principles we have learned about so far, but I  focused on the personalization principle, multimedia principle, and modality principle the most because I use a casual description of events through my narration, relevant visuals with audio alone, and very limited text (p. 253-254).  For the purposes of the worked example, I was really fond of the active observing technique.  I chose record with Screencast-O-Matic because through this method, “learners could solve problems as they observed the video” (p. 252). 

Challenges

A challenge I struggled with in completing this project was contemplating adding background music or not.  When looking back at previous assignments I have completed, I find that my preference of adding background music it’s dependent on the program I use to create the work.  The way I created this assignment was different than the previous digital story project in last week’s task, but for whatever reason, I always find myself warry of not wanting to use background music in Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.  I’ve been doing video responses for my discussion posts throughout the master's program, and seriously I don't think there's a time I put music in my Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations!  I’m curious on how to proceed, please tell me what you think!

I have a video embedded on the 2^nd slide if you are curious about the example video I selected and I also have a video embedded on the 10^th slide that is a short 30 second clip of the entire process.

Here is a link to the Google Slides presentation:  Click Here

Here is a link to the Worked Example YouTube video:  Click Here