Static Multimedia Tutorial
Since drawing can be the easiest way to convey an idea, this is a tutorial for students to practice and be able to apply the technique of drawing by sketching a mouse using shapes, forms, proportions, shading, and tonal values. This type of instruction is great for students to apply a sequence of steps in order to accomplish their goal. Besides students learning to use their motor skills that further develop their cognitive development, this tutorial takes a constructivist, synchronous approach of hands on learning. This artifact demonstrates the multimedia and contiguity principles of "align words to corresponding graphics" (Clark & Mayer, 2011). This artifact exhibits the concept that the texts referring to the graphics are near each other.
This artifact meets the standards below:
3.1 Creating-Candidates create instructional design products based on learning principles and research-based best practices.
3.2 Using-Candidates make professionally sound decisions in selecting appropriate processes and resources to provide optimal conditions for learning based on principles, theories, and effective practices.
This tutorial artifact follows the twelve principles of multimedia presentations by Richard E. Mayer described in the book Multimedia Learning (Cambridge Press, 2001). This artifact follows the Multimedia Principle that people learn better from words and pictures than from words alone, the Coherence Principle of people learn better when extraneous words, pictures and sounds are excluded rather than included, the Signaling Principle as arrows are used as cues to highlight the organization of the essential materials, the Spatial and Temporal Contiguity Principles of having corresponding words and pictures that are presented near each other on the page or screen and having the corresponding words and pictures presented simultaneously rather than successively on the page, and the Segmenting Principle of user-paced segments rather than as a continuous unit. I used Clarify-it, a new software package for me to try, and Microsoft Word to create my rough draft.