This multimedia aims to educate the viewers on how one can get a good night’s sleep. The plan is to design an infographic, and explain how an individual should get a good night’s sleep.
The Learning Outcomes
- The viewers will get to know how to create infographics.
- The viewers will have a deeper understanding of ways of improving their sleep.
Implementation of Theories
In developing the infographics, theories such as visual theory and learning by discovery were used to inform how to establish the infographics best. The two theories were used to explain and understand why people want to read a particular theory. Most viewers of the infographics would be interested in improving their sleep. The primary intent of reading the infographic would be through learning; thus main aim would be to explain. Formulating an explanation of the theory gives a deeper understanding of how best to develop the infographic. In some cases, when creators of an infographic do not understand why they are making an infographic, they fail to make the material for the reader and do it for themselves. And thus fail to create a link between them and the readers.
In addition to the theory, the development of multimedia incorporated multimedia learning principles. I had to adhere to the multimedia principle because I understand that people learn better from words and pictures rather than just words. I applied the image principle in the infographics, allowing readers to connect themselves with the messages I am trying to present in my infographic easier. In addition, I incorporated other principles such as the pre-training, and the redundancy principles. These principles focus on improving the quality of multimedia such as text, and graphics to improve the quality of my infographics.
Lessons
In reading my infographic, the readers will learn how to develop an infographic, learn some of the challenges that people face that affect the quality of their sleep, and what steps they can take to mitigate the challenges. The readers should be able to read an infographic that explains the causes of poor sleep. Thus, the readers are also to have a better understanding of presenting information using infographics. the readers would be benefited by understanding the dynamics of sleep and how human behaviours influence each.
The infographics will contain information that will inform the viewers of the number of people affected by the several sleeping challenges. Graphics helps present the information more appealingly. In the use of multimedia principles, graphics bring out the statistical information much more straightforward and help make the presentation appealing.
The infographics will explain how best to improve the quality of sleep. The infographics describe how to tackle issues that influence sleep quality. Thus, it explains the do and don’t’s that people should watch as a way of improving sleep.
Evaluation
The best way to evaluate the students’ understanding is by asking them to tell us what they have learned and how well they learned it. This can be evaluated using a verbal quiz to understand the aspects that were catchy to the students and those that seemed to have been a challenge. One way of understanding whether the student understood anything from the teaching is by asking some questions at the end. Doing so makes it possible to understand what the students understood from the infographics and what was missed. In such a case, it is easy to determine the effectiveness of the infographics teaching strategy in a group.
Other Topics
Other topics that can be evaluated using a similar way include:
Stress relief ideas, ways of acquiring help with mental health, how to incorporate mindfulness and find the way to navigate life during the pandemic.
Pitfalls
In such a project, it is not everything that goes according to plans, and thus we are forced to improvise. One of the areas pitfalls is the mini website did not go to plan. Some challenges arose with the mini-website that were not initially anticipated that caused the delay of the project. I had a few challenges in developing the infographic to get a good night’s sleep because of the way to generate the information.
Skills
Some skills that readers will attain from the presentation is how to improve the quality of sleep.
Multimedia Elements
In the presented, the embedded multimedia elements included the text and images. All these elements are key to improving the quality of the infographics. Each element has subtypes that must be employed to ensure a quality infographic.
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