Nick's Instructional Design Space

Examine your design plan for your final project in the course. Which principle(s) of multimedia learning could be implemented in your proposed instructional materials?  What could you use from the Method of Loci? Explain how you would apply the principle(s) of multimedia learning into your proposed design. In my instructional design I place to use a couple of these principles.  The interactive google slides will have the temporal contiguity principle, where words and pictures are presented together.  Multimedia principle, where the students will be able to choose picture examples of their work.  The main focus will be attempting to follow the Personalization Principle - where they will be able to personalize each lesson by selecting images and answers from their own life, and in their own words. 

Prompt 1: Reflect on the Method of Loci in your blog. What worked? What didn't? How could you use such a cognitive activity, mental or visible to users, to improve the acquisition of knowledge in your designs? What was different last time vs. this time? Did what you built before stimulate this kind of visualization in learners or did the media do it for them? Which do you think is better? I have enjoyed attempting the Method of Loci, and have really started to see some results from it.  It's enjoyable to me to try and find something that relates to what I am trying to remember as a visual for a particular part of the room.  What can I think of that reminds me of a learning community that has its own values?  How about a desk (learning community) with a scale on it (value)?  Now it also has a check for $1,000 on it (desired outcomes) and a picture of two people shaking hands (acceptable conventions and practices).  I have now created a visual representation o...

Prompt:What does it mean to manage/regulate yourself (self-regulate) and others during learning experiences? How does it bring you towards goals? How important is communication in this process and what helps/impedes it? I have always looked at self regulation as once of the more difficult things for me to handle when it comes to learning experiences.  When I am the facilitator or teacher, I have the likelihood to rush through things I have already done, or think the students should have already learned.  Taking time to go back and remember that this is the first time some of these kids are hearing this, or that hearing it just one time is not enough for all kids to understand it is a difficult thing for me to remember. When it comes to others, I have a much better understanding how to regulate experiences.  Frequent checks for understanding and personal questions of motivation are used my class often.  Often times I use simple visual cue for understanding such as...