Week 2 Overview

This week we look at Chapter 3: Applying the Multimedia Principle: Use Words and Graphics Rather than Words Alone and Chapter 4: Applying the Contiguity Principle: Align Words to Corresponding Graphics.

Chapter 3: Adding graphics to text in e-learning often increases the cost and production time of the training and can add to download delays in Internet-delivered training. Are these drawbacks offset by improved learning? Chapter 3 summarizes the empirical evidence for learning gains that result from combining text and relative graphics in e-lessons. It also discusses some types of graphics that are useful in e-learning and describe the psychological basis for the improved learning that stems from a combination of text and graphics.

Click Play to view an Overview of Chapter 3. Click on the following link to download the PDF transcript.


Chapter 4: This chapter summarizes the empirical evidence for learning gains resulting from presenting text and graphics in an integrated fashion on the screen, compared to the same information presented separately. It illustrates some of the more common violations of this principle in misplacement of text and graphics on scrolling screens, directions and feedback to exercises, and information accessed from a lesson link.

Click Play to view an Overview of Chapter 4. Click on the following link to download the PDF transcript.

Week 2 Activities:
  • Read Chapters 3 and 4.
  • Post your response to the DQs for Chapters 3 and 4 on the class Discussion Forum.
  • Participate in this week’s Ed Tech Blog Discussion.
  • Submit Part 1 of E-Learning Project: Project Proposal. Due: January 24, 2021

Reminder 1: We will begin to explore Second Life next week. If you have not yet set up your Second Life account and created your avatar, please do so as soon as possible. Click here to set up your Second Life membership and download the Second Life Viewer. Use the Educational Technology work area on the UTRGV Second Life site as your starting point for launching field trips within Second Life.

Reminder 2: Don’t forget to participate weekly in the 2 discussion forums, the class Discussion Forum and the Ed Tech Blog. Participation in both of these forums constitutes 15% of your overall grade. I will grade class participation in both of these forums for Weeks 1 and 2 early next week.
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Go to Module 2 for complete Week 2 instructions.


IMPORTANT: The Cooperative Teams have been formed.

Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4 Team 5
 1. Vanessa Morales
2. Tekiela Gallagher
3. Trishia Dace
4. Yaritza Hernandez
5. Veronica Hargis
6. Arlyna Garza		  1. Jimmie Harris
2. Leah Fleitas
3. Michael Ramirez
4. Omar Blanco
5. Anthony Sepulveda
6. Diana Salinas		 1. Luis Pena
2. Dolores Gutierrez
3. Ayme Benitez
4. Drew Purcell
5. Brianna Nitz
6. Victoria Zamora		 1. Felipe Alvarez
2. Rochelle Brooks
3. Samantha Peña
4. Andres Barragan
5. Ana Cruz
6. Karin Cruz		 1. Cassandra Sousa
2. Andrew Atwood
3. Jessica Gonzalez
4. Jessica Palo
5. Yeidilene Rios
6. Marina Waggoner

The teams should begin to meet to discuss and begin to plan the cooperative project. Choose a common platform (chat, email, Snap Chat, Facebook Groups, etc.) to begin to hold back channel chats throughout the day and week without having to be logged in to Blackboard. The Teams will begin to conducted guided field trips within the next few weeks.