Advocacy in Technology Education

 Conversational Style, For The Win!      In the following you are going to be learning about my take on the Personalization Principle by Clark and Mayer. I created a Digital Story Telling Project displaying music theory techniques that I have used over the years to teach film composition to high school seniors in their music theory/Advanced Placement music theory classes. I will also be speaking on the technical challenges on creating a digital story project as well.      I started off the video by telling the audience that I used a musical excerpt from a composition that I wrote twelve years ago. All video and audio are owned through my paid licenses with Noteflight, Screencastify, and NCH Videopad. I then spoke about who the video was meant to help. (High School Music Theory Students, College Music Theory Students, and Adults who have a music background as well.)       On page 187 of the E-Learning and the Science of Instruction, ...

 "Less is More"      I am currently taking a graduate class in Educational Technology and recently completed a written analysis of the "Coherence Principle" by Clark and Mayer. I will briefly describe the topics that I spoke about in that paper.  ( Below this explanation there will be a link to the complete analysis)        In the following composition, I am going to discuss the definition of the "Coherence Principle," the criteria/constraints of the “Coherence Principle,” one successful/unsuccessful attempt(s) in my education relating to the Coherence Principle, my own opinions on the Coherence Principle itself, and the limitations/qualifications of the Coherence Principle that the authors did not consider.     The audience that this is directed towards would be any student, teacher, creator, working professional, that needs to portray and present information. The sooner that we realize that our brains have functional lim...

How much information is to much?  When looking into the "Modality Principle" and the "Redundancy Principle" by Clark and Mayer, I started to make some personal connections to the concept. When I have spare time, I enjoy watching superhero movies and television shows with my family. When I would go into the family room, my wife would have subtitles on the movie or tv show while it was playing, and I HATE subtitles. I now have realized why!  The Modality Principle explains that it is better to use narration with images alone to enhance/explain information. When using this principle correctly cognitive overload will not happen. (pg. 120 Clark and Mayer) The Redundancy Principle explains that your brain cannot handle multiple pathways of complex information coming at you at the same time. (Pg 133 Clark and Mayer.) You will not absorb it. Adding images, written words, with auditory narration to any presentation, is to much for most of our brains to handle. We need to th...

Multimedia Tutorial  Multimedia Principle Contiguity Principle           In this tutorial you will find a step by step presentation with clearly marked instructions. My step by step presentation demonstrates the multimedia principle by combining words and pictures for simple instructions. The targeted audience for my tutorial are novice users with www.noteflight.com.           My goal with this tutorial was to get the novice user started with an account if they don't have one, or give a basic user the ability to start with a basic piano score.           Also, my presentation demonstrates the contiguity principle by placing the words as close together as possible with the images as possible.  ( pg. 91, Chapter 4, Clark and Mayer: E-Learning and the Science of Instruction )           Another technique that was used is "Visual Cueing" with the arrows so that the...

Josh Meade ELRC 7505  Design & Development of Multimedia Instructional Units        In this blog you will be able to find my artifacts and research that I will be looking into over the  course of this class. Over the course of this class I hope to learn more about the science of  digital learning and "why" and "how" we create multimedia instructional programs. I would also  like to research more programs that can be effectively used in the world of music education  because that is my chosen career path!   

1. Project Based Learning- When students are faced with a challenge in a partnership or even small a group there is a "sink or swim mentality" almost immediately which fuels most students to want to succeed for the desired result. Especially when "game-ify-ing"; learning students want to win!  2. Small Group Instruction- Along the lines of project based learning, small group instruction generally gives both the student and teacher more time with each other to work out deficiencies and or successes. Students have more time to develop competency and their ability to reflect on learning when actively working. 3. Student leaders- Give students a chance to lead in the classroom for example: in my band classroom, each instrumental section has 1 section leader. They audition at the end of the 1st quarter and whoever gets it will be first chair in their section. They will also have more responsibility, ie getting music for their section for rehearsal if needed, denoted name...