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Short blog post this month… I got tired of students submitting papers in weird formats, even through I clearly stated both in class AND in the syllabus, what the format should be. Then I realized that some students didn’t know how to do basic word processing – such as how to change the Word Heading … Read more
Last month I compared and combined three articles on the principles for multimedia instructional videos. One of the common principles was about color use. This month I reviewed over a dozen articles on color use in instruction and found the following: According to Misanchuk & Schwier (2009) The following are extracted from a list of … Read more
In this blog, I compare three articles on best practices/principles for designing instructional videos and provide a list of matching principles that may help you design your instructional videos. These can be applied with the WCAG accessibility guidelines and general good design principles. There are dozens of research articles about the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia … Read more
A few months ago, I provided a list of basic support areas that will help you prepare for each term. Now, here is a list of other support areas that you may need in an emergency. Under the assumption that you may not have time to search online for the correct information, you may want … Read more
We talk with our students about plagiarism, but how do we fare ourselves? When we are creating documents, webpages, slides, etc., do we consider the sources for our images, videos, or sounds? It is tempting to take an image we see in Google and copy and paste it where we want it. Chances are pretty … Read more