Link of the lesson plan: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QaB25DEkc7tje-oWt5D0nUCBBBTkoQipAYWewZi_ZsY/edit

Link of the created Prezi presentation: https://prezi.com/p/aq7ddrih2trm/performing-cpr-rajbir-jacy/

In this group assignment, we created a Prezi presentation, a multimedia project to explain this study’s theme–What is CPR and how it works on people of different ages. This presentation also included text descriptions, infographics, a quiz, and a video to help learners learning. Now please let me enumerate the multimedia learning principles observed in this multimedia project.

-Multimedia Principle: For example, in both of the video and the page 8&9 of the Prezi presentation, we added images and infographics instead of show words alone to help learners see the useful knowledges more clearly, which can make them learn better.

-Redundancy Principle: This shows on page 3 of our presentation. In the video, we only used images and voice descriptions related to the information instead of lots of words, images, and voice descriptions. The purpose of this is to minimize the format of the information is presented to prevent unnecessary interference to learners.

-Signalling Principle: We used the table of contents and titles in the presentation and inserted the information that learners need to know on its relevant pages, we also created a summary page that highlighted important points, which fits the Signalling Principle and makes people learn better.

-Coherence principle: In this presentation, we only added the knowledges showed in the introduction page, and the questions in quiz were also just based on them. We excluded irrelevant materials to let learners avoid irrelevant interferences.

-Segmenting Principle: In this project, learners have the right to control their learning progress independently. They can click different pages on Prezi at anytime to review or learn what they want. The learners will learn better when a multimedia message is presented in learner-paced segments.

-Pre-training Principle: In the Prezi presentation, the first part we created was the introduction of the definition and purpose of CPR. This is to allow learners to have a preliminary understanding of its definition before proceeding to a deeper level of learning through multimedia messages, so as to deepen their memory in order to learn better.

-Embodiment Principle: When I recording the video, I chose to show the PowerPoint presentation on the screen instead of show my face. This fits the embodiment principle and may make learners learn better.

-Personalization Principle: In the video on page 3, I tried my best to use a calm and casual tone and oral conjunctions to let the multimedia presentation in conversational style. This will make the teaching style relatively easier and increase the learner’s interest to improve their learning efficiency.

-Feedback Principle: We created the quiz to fit in this principle. When answering the questions and receive the grades as feedback, learners will realize how they performed in this study and find a more suitable learning method in the future.

-Animation Principle: This time, we chose the static infographics to demonstrate how to perform CPR on adults and infants instead of chose some videos to show it. Because the difference between the two CPR methods will be more difficult to reflect on the video, and static infographics can more comprehensively allow learners to recognize and compare. This complies with the animation principle.

The above are the multimedia principles embodied in our works. Besides, in my opinion, our project also implies both the Dual Coding Theory and the Cognitive Load Theory. The former is because we do combine visual and language learning together in the project, by showing information in both words and video voices. The latter is because we added a summary page and a quiz to help learners deepen their memory, those methods can avoid their brains from expiring working memory due to information overload.