Lesson
I am using the same lesson from week 2.
Classroom/Application
The objective of my professional development is to help software engineers come to an understanding as well as the importance of Unit and Integration testing. Like last week, I would utilize the digital images in a professional development setting. Images help to engage the audience and can really help the student quality information. For example, in my Infographic I show a doughnut chart which shows the savings, as a percentage, of development time saved over the life of a project. The graphic conveys the information a lot better than just simply stating it. The Coherence Principle states that “people learn more deeply from a multimedia message when extraneous material is excluded rather than included” (Mayer n.d., p.5). I believe that the Infographic is a perfect expression of this principle and I believe my Infographic aligns with the principle. See below.
Reflection
I haven’t had many opportunities to create Infographic in the past so it was nice to be able to do so for this assignment. I used www.piktochart.com and really enjoyed the experience. Piktochart makes the development of infographics so simple that anyone with even the slightest bit of computer skills can use it and create something that looks clean and professional. I would recommend it for infographic creation. I used Photoshop CS2 for my image creation as it was what I am familiar with and I used Open Broadcaster Software (https://obsproject.com/) to create a screen capture video, then I used http://ezgif.com/video-to-gif to convert the video screen capture to a gif. All the tools were pretty easy to use and there is video tutorials available on YouTube for each of the items.
Image Collage
Gif
InfoGraphic
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Eric, I loved your Infographic work. That is quite cool! I did not though see a lesson plan. Am I missing something here? I will remember piktochart and try to utilize it later.
ReplyDeleteShame on me that I have not heard of gif before. Isn't is such a powerful way of expressing an information without a video or multiple images? I like the way hoe you showed a code writing in action.
Thanks Eric.
Dr. Weible said we could expand on the prior weeks lesson which is what i did.
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Hi Eric, your Infographic looks really nicely done. I like that it lists the principles at the top and then you go more in depth with them at the bottom. There was just the right amount of information provided for me to understand. I did notice that you have both principal and principle written for the graphics. I am not sure if that was on purpose, but it was something I noticed!
ReplyDeleteI agree with the idea that the Coherence Principle is expressed well with an infographic, especially your infographic. Too often I see my 8th grade science students, as well as my former students at different grade levels, add too much distracting, non relevant material. Piktochart, as you described, is a great way to present information in a well organized and professional way. My students will use this as a way to restrict their wandering minds but still allow them to be creative with their infographic. Thank you for sharing your work!
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