Blog3-Week5 Multimedia Literacy

Although I was not familiar with multimedia literacy until I read a article, I think that next generation or even our generation need this ability because there are a lot of teaching methods using computer, and people are exposed to those technology in their daily life. According to Mayer (2000), he explains that multimedia literacy refers to being able to generate multimedia communications that others comprehend and to comprehend multimedia communications that others generate. If I am a teacher, I'll use some visual aids based on computer because it is less time to put a picture on screen than I draw a picture by myself. Also, students can easily access use computers as  language leanings at their house. As one of  possible future teachers, I should learn multimedia literacy, and teach the literacy to students.

The article more focused on how to produce multimedia explanations that people can understand. When Jacqueline explained ten principles of multimedia message design, I was more interested in Segmenting principle because I couldn't catch all words when I watched a video. So I though that if I could control the video, for example, pause, repeat, and more slowly, I would catch all words, and more understand the contents. I felt that Segmenting principle was important  at that time. However, one of my friends suggested  that students could control the video if they learned something at their house or computer lab. So, I noticed it was depend on how teacher use the video that whether teacher can include Segmenting principle in the multimedia resources.

Also, Temporal contiguity principle is helpful for learner, especially L2 learner because learners can't concentrate on whole explanation, and they may fail to hear some words. However, if they watch the video and listen to explanation simultaneously, they can easily understand the contents because the pictures give a clue for learners to comprehend the explanation.

Teacher has to choose carefully in order to satisfy these principle, but it is not easy to meet all. This is because perhaps they don't need to follow Personalization principle in some class, or they should reflect Modality principle in other class. etc...However, knowing basic ten principle, and checking by comparing whenever we see visual aids, is very important. I think that those process can be also included in multimedia literacy.