Link of the updated story: https://web.uvic.ca/~rmccue/twine/zwang-story.html

In this assignment, I chose to fill in the content of the story I created by Twine, which was about the growth process of a football player born in Canada based on my personal understanding of soccer games and my expectations for the future of Canadian soccer. Now, let me explain what kind of knowledge I gained more during this process.

First, analyze from the perspective of multimedia learning principles. This time I found that the updated story followed by the Coherence Principle. Because in the timeline, the previous or future “career experience” exists only in their own branch and will not interfere with the development of any other branch. Therefore, these factors can be regarded as extraneous materials. When they are excluded from learning, learners will improve their learning efficiency. This is also in line with the definition of the Coherence Principle. But unfortunately, this time I didn’t seem to follow the Redundancy Principle, because I used both words and videos/images to display the information in the story.

Then, analyze from the Dual Coding Theory angle. Last time, I used text and images to tell the story, which theoretically does not conform to the Dual Coding theory. This time I added videos with sound, which means in this project (the Twine story), both visual and verbal information can be used to represent information, which may make learners learn better. And this does fits the Dual Coding Theory.

Finally, thinking from the Cognitive Load Theory. This time, I added a “Recall your previous options” link to the almost the end of the story, which was in order not to overload the learner’s working memory. From this way they will not forget the past links and will not affect the development of future choices. In my opinion, this should also fits the Cognitive Load Theory.