Hello everyone, my name is Yiyang Wei. This week we started to learn about interactive and multimedia. First of all, I think media is a very interesting subject. It includes psychology, pedagogy, computer science, etc. It can also be used in some majors, such as educational technology, instructional design, applied cognitive psychology, technical writing, graphic design, and human-computer interaction, etc. I am interested in the prospects of multimedia learning, especially now that I am interested in developing the potential of using multimedia information to improve human lives. Interactive multimedia is the addition of interactive functions on the basis of traditional media. Through interactive behavior and multiple senses to convey and express information, the audience can not only see, hear, but also touch, feel, smell, and also interact with it (Schwier & Misanchuk, 1993). As a student, I have experienced the changes of multimedia in schools and classrooms from my own educational experience. I have classes in a traditional school, from elementary school to university. The mode of the blackboard in the classroom has changed from chalk to the projector, realizing the upgrade from text to video image. As the modality principle says, people learn better from graphics and narratives than from graphics and printed text (Mayer, 2014). I was deeply impressed by the changes in basic physics class graphics, geography class maps, and music class appreciation. From only one real piano in the music classroom to learning through computers and the Internet, I was deeply benefited.
References
Mayer, R. E. (2005). Introduction to multimedia learning. The Cambridge handbook of multimedia learning, 2, 1-24.
Schwier, R., & Misanchuk, E. R. (1993). Interactive multimedia instruction. Educational Technology.
Hello Yiyang, thank you for the post. I think you did a good job describing what we’ve learned in the instructor’s post 1. I personally agree with you on how multimedia is a very interesting subject, it contains both psychology, education, and computer science, etc… As you said, the way of how people learn new things is slowly changing. We moved from the traditional way of teaching to projector teaching. I think it was big progress in the field of education.