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In the course wiki you will be working with your classmates to locate and share PowerPoint presentations that exhibit one or more of the 10 principles by Mayer. Once you have located the PowerPoint presentation on SlideShare you will embed it on this Module 3 Page in the course wiki. Each entry should 1) clearly display the author of the PowerPoint, 2) Explain which principle is being demonstrated and how, and 3) Please post your initials next to your entry. You can separate your entries by inserting a horizontal line. (The icon with the blue bar in the wiki toolbar.) To embed a slideshare presentation just copy the embed code and click in the TV icon in the wiki toolbar. You can click on "Other html" then paste the embed code and click on Save.

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"Habits of Mind" uses a few of Mayer's ten principles. The first that it uses is the multimedia principle-"people learn better from words and pictures than from words alone."(Mayer,2008) For each habit the students have taken a picture of them demonstrating the action, and placed words with the text to allow the viewer to associate the action in the picture to the Habit of Mind. The second of Mayer's principles that is used off and on throughout the slideshow is the personalization technique. In slides 1,2,6,7,9,11, and 17 it is clear that the presenter is speaking to the audience. Although not all slides speak directly to the ﻿viewer they all demonstrate

read with personality making it a personal experience for the viewer. Lastly, the presenters chose to use the segmenting principle, by only revealing one habit at a time the viewer is able to focus on the habit and what it

means. This also allows the viewer opportunities to apply the habit to their life and think about how to use. it. (Amber Traverse)

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This slideshow entitled "so you want to do a startup, eh?" demonstrates the Personalization principle of Richard Mayer's principle for fostering generative processing. In this slideshow, informal "street-talk" is used with a few F-bombs dropped in. Whether you agree with this strong use of language or not (which I personally don't) many times I've heard this type of language used by everyday people in conversations. In fact, in some societies - in the Republic of Ireland, for example - I've noticed the use of what we consider "culturally" strong language is not necessarily viewed as "strong" or "bad" language.

Additionally, this slideshow also uses a good mixture of both words and pictures to present information. In this way, the slideshow also demonstrates Mayer's principle of Multimedia: using more than just words to communicate. For example, the slideshow presents pictures from various magazines of once successful entrepreneurs and uses pictures exclusively to demonstrate the feelings and emotions in "a week in the life of a startup founder".

Lastly, the slideshow has many slides with clear text and nothing but white space. This is a good example of Mayer's Coherence principle for reducing extraneous processing. By incorporating white space the text stands out more strongly, focusing the reader's attention. (Matt Kelliher)

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The slideshow entitled "Sorting Things Out: an Introduction to Card Sorting" makes use of a few of Mayer's 10 principles. The presentation makes use of signaling on several slides by making use of font types, sizes and colors to emphasize important pieces of text. Sorting Things Out makes use of spacial contiguity by (typically) putting text immediately next to images to which it pertains. A few times text is associated with images, but in a less spatially specific way (see slide 27). The presentation makes use of pretraining and segmenting on slides 6 to 12 to explain several of the design elements that fit into the context of card sorting before the topic is covered and each piece is presented one item at a time. Slides 6 to 12 also make use of Multimedia by associating a metaphorical image to coincide with the principles of design that are being explained. The presentation also makes fairly frequent use of personalization by keeping the text and graphic design fairly informal. (MS)

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This powerpoint by Zeeshan Khan is a great example of several of Mayer's 10 principles (2008). The slides have spacial contiguity. The graphic is on top and the quote is directly below it. Mayer stresses that learners are able to comprehend information when words and pictures are placed near each other. (p.764) It also shows coherence. There certainly is no extraneous material on each slide. A pure white background, photo and quote focuses the viewer on the information, adding impact to the message. I also think "Quotes" provides an example of segmenting because each quote is on its own slide. AA (Anne Asplund)

media type="custom" key="9514462" I choose this presentation by EdCamp Philly 2011(Mary Beth Hertz) for several reasons. The title interests me. As I travel this journey toward my masters my thoughts on literacy is changing and this presentation provided some insights that support my evolution. It also includes some of Mayer's principle. Once again, it was a good example of segmenting. Each page had its own topic, some more detailed than others. Signaling was evident on slide 5 and 7. The important topic was at the top followed by the graphic and then an expanded text on the topic. These slides also incorporated spatial contiguity where the text is placed close (sometimes over) the graphic. This presentation also include a video clip of "Joe's Notebook". This is one of my favorite examples of 21st century literacy. This speaks to Mayer's principle of temporal contiguity, placing corresponding narration and animation at the same time. (p.763) AA

media type="custom" key="9514604" I got hooked on Mary Beth Hertz's presentation. Here topics are timely and well set up. In this one I saw a few new principles of Mayer's being used. On slide 3 and 4 the presentation provides pretraining by giving definitions. It also included signaling by highlighting the importance points of the definitions. The stages presented were segmented but I also found coherence in its design. I noticed that all these slides used the same design template. It also kept things coherent by providing links that extended the slide topic. This was better than putting all that information on one slide. The links were informative, but a presentation in and of themselves.

media type="custom" key="9556782" This is a somewhat long, but a very appropriate presentation on Social Media that demonstrates three of Mayer's principles, in my opinion. As you watch the presentation (82 slides are too many for any presentation) you will see the author uses: 1-Signals by highlighting essential materials, 2-Spatial contiguity by placing corresponding words next to graphics and 3-Multimedia through the presentations of few words with corresponding pictures that bring the point to the viewer clearly and succinctly. The author is a professional presentation creator, who posts on SlideShare as Presentation Advisors at Story Worldwide by the Jon Thomas. He is located in Fairfield, Connecticut and is involved with PR and Marketing. (MJD)

media type="custom" key="9561660" The presentation that I chose was created by Oh Teik Bin and it shows examples of irony. It might be perceived as being a little sexist, but I thought there were some good examples that really give you an idea of irony means. Out of Mayor’s 10 principles the PowerPoint demonstrated the Multimedia Principle, because it uses both words and pictures, and the Temporal Principle because the words and the picture that they go with are on the same slide. (KA)

media type="custom" key="9562176" This too is long, but something that makes one think. It is by Tomas Bay of CoachBay. There are some highlighted words that fits Mayer's Signaling Principle. It also meets the the Multimedia principle because there are words and pictures and the Personalization principle because it is conversational. (TG)

media type="custom" key="9576740" I found this presentation to be a great resource for a marketing or entrepreneurship lesson because it involves the most relevant elements in Mayer's Science of Learning Theory. This multimedia instructional lesson uses both words and pictures in a way that allows the learner to process the information easily into long-term memory because it highlights essential material. According to Mayer, this is called Signaling and is an essential principle to learners making a connection between both words and text. I also noticed how this presentation effectively placed printed words next to corresponding graphics using the Spatial Contiguity principle, which another key principal for learners. WH (Wallace Hall)

media type="custom" key="9587458" This presentation was created by guiramirez from bogata, DC, columbia and is a little long, but I found very interesting to follow. I thought many of Mayer's science of learning principles were followed in this presentation where you could see the highlighted words come out to you as a form of signaling and you saw words next to the graphics to show spatial contiguity. There were plenty of graphics to get the message across and the language was written in a conversational manner, which displays the modality principle. (CC)

media type="custom" key="9589528" This presentation was created by Mr. M (username Melodia). I thought that this presentation included a few of Mayer's principles. The following principles were addressed: Coherence (reducing the background to white, even though it can look a little boring at times) Segmenting (examples of conductors and insulators were given on separate slides and presented at the learners pace) Modality (sometimes used "you" instead of "the" slide 12) Signaling (didn't necessarily highlight, but did introduce the topics one at a time and used arrows to highlight key concepts for examples) Spatial Contiguity (placed printed words next to the pictures of conductors and insulators) HC (Holli Chambers)

media type="custom" key="9592914" This presentation was created by David Heller (user name David Malouf). I believe that there were several different principles of Mayer's that were found within this presentation. These principles include the following: Spatial Contiguity: there were words accompanied by pictures to represent what the presenter was trying to explain. Signaling: there were definite headlines throughout the presentation. These headlines were in the same location to make it easier to follow. Multimedia: there were pictures and words in some slides (not all). Specifically, slides 10-16 had the evidence of this principle. Coherence: there was not a lot of "junk" on the slides. Things were easy to follow along with. MM (Michael Murphy)

media type="custom" key="9598228" This presentation was created by Scott Duarte. I think in many ways this slide show exemplifies a number of Mayer's Evidence-Based Principles and effectively communicates its content to the audience. The subject of the slide show is a need for creative, multi-modal, engaging approaches in ESL programs of study, and the author practices well what he preaches. The first of Mayer's principles that is immediately evident is that of spacial contiguity. The many text and graphic pairings are engaging, with graphics literally illustrating and illuminating the written text's message. Complimentary to this principle of spacial contiguity is Mayer's principle of multimedia. Every slide in the show contains a graphic, leaving no text unaided by picture. Thirdly, the principle of coherence is well achieved by the reduction of slide content to essientially one point per slide. Personalization is the last of Mayer's principles that the slide show employs well, with the program's phrasing and language always remaining accessible and never getting too formal. BH (Britt Hainstock)

media type="custom" key="9597522" GKramer's (username gkramer) 'Causes of the American Revolution' illustrates a number of Mayer's principles with to varying degrees. Chief among the principles to be observed, in my opinion, are 'segmenting,' 'coherence' and 'multimedia.' GKramer's presentation is divided into clear segments, each pertaining to a particular legal action on the part of Great Britain or domestic conflict between colonists and British forces, leading up to the recognized start of the American Revolution. One can move through these segments successively, with natural breaks between any two. The presentation likewise demonstrates coherence as every word, every image and ever segment therein is focused exclusively on elements contributing to the start of the famed war. Extraneous material is not only minimal, it is very nearly absent. Finally, with respect to multimedia, many slides contain both compelling images and descriptive text providing context for the images. JB (Jeremy Bond)

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I have found another PowerPoint presentation. The author is Joel Yuvienco. The following are principles covered by Mayer: Coherence: not a lot of extraneous material Spatial Contiguity: when the definition of a landform was given, a graphic was displayed of the specific landform Pretraining: it provided the definition of a landform in the first slide before the author went into each landform Multimedia: author included words and pictures of each landform HC (Holli Chambers)

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media type="custom" key="9603214" The two related PowerPoint presentations by Matteo Tamburini demonstrate two methods for solving systems of linear equations. I believe that both presentations use Mayer’s coherence principle. Both have a simple white background and nonessential material is excluded. In addition, Tamburini highlights the important information by color coding the variables as the necessary steps are performed and I believe this would be Mayer’s signaling principle. Solving systems of linear equations is divided into two separate presentations and variations are presented separately in each presentation. Each step in solving the system of equations is done individually. Students self-pace through the PowerPoint. This is Mayer’s segmenting principle. In addition, Tamburini uses “we” and a conversational style when discussing the steps to take in solving the systems of equations utilizing Mayer’s personalization principle. (KS)

media type="custom" key="9605374" In this slideshow on Facebook by Marcus Nelson, several principles for designing multimedia are used. Perhaps one of the most obvisous principle used is the principle of coherence. The principle of coherence implies that all extraneous material be removed from the multimedia to elimate stress on congnitive capacity and leave more for congigive processing for relevant information important to reaching the learning outcomes of the multimedia (Mayer, p.763). Throughout the slideshow there is only the bare minium of textual information on each slide. I envision this slideshow being presented with a speaker, eliminating the need for every word to be present in text. Nelson also does a good job of implementing the spatial contiguity principle in his slideshow. Mayer describes the spaitial contiguity principle as "people learn better when corresponding words and pictues are presented near rather than far from each on the page or screen"(p.764). On several slides there are graphs with titles and text summarizing the trends in the graph. Both the graphs and summarizing text appear on the same slide. The slideshow is also organized very well. It is a rather long slideshow, however the organization makes processing the information much easier. This principle as describe by Mayer is called the prinicple of segmenting (p.765). Even though the while presenting this slideshow there is really no way for the learner to control the pace, when reviewing it on their own the organization of the information makes it easy for the learner to move from one main topic to the next in the slideshow. Last but not least, Nelson also uses Mayer's principle of multimedia, using pictures and words rather than words alone (p.766). Nelson does a nice job of using common graphics from Facebook to provide the learners a visual of the main content ideas covered in the slideshow. ~Brandy Butcher

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In this slideshow on the rock cycle by Mr. Thurston the principle of signaling is used very well. The principle of signialing can be described as highlighting important information in the multimedia (Mayer, p.763). As you move through the slideshow key definitions and descriptions are highlighted. The highlight signals to the learner that this is important information that needs to be processed. Mr. Thurston also used the principle of spaitial contguity by placing the highlighted definitons and pictures next to one another on the slide. Along with these two principles, Mr. Thuston also used the more basic principle of multimedia by incorporating graphics and pictures to accompany the text throught the presentation. ~Brandy Butcher

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Julie Anderson uses a few of Mayer's in her informational slide show on the rapidly declining number of sharks in our oceans. Julie does a great job of using Integrated Presentation from Table 1 in Mayer's acticle. In almost every slide Julie puts her informational text near the pictures that it represents. For example, one slide shows pictures of different types of sharks with a description of each shark right next to the picture. This ensures that the reader will not get confused about which shark they are reading about. There are also various bar graphs that have written explanations above each bar to help readers understand the graphs. Julie uses Signaling with arrows and bulleted points in front of many of her important points throughout the slide show. The use of words with pictures (Multimedia Principle) is the most commonly used feature in this slide show that deals with Table 3 and the Generative Processing section of Mayer's article. (DF - David Farnquist)

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In the PowerPoint titled Chapter 2 - Ecology authored by Shelly Ferguson, many of Mayer's principles are used. In this slideshow, the basics of Ecology are discussed. This includes vocabulary and how living organisms and nonliving objects makeup any ecosystem. The slideshow is clearly organized in an outline manner, with a heading and information about the title on the same page (Signaling Principle). Throughout the PowerPoint, information is given in a short, organized manner (Segmenting Principle). Also, Ferguson provides written information and a picture for almost every slide (Spatial Contiguity Principle). (JM - Jennifer Marriott)

media type="custom" key="9859265" JFK Assassination - Created/Posted on SlideShare by "justinan". The Presentation includes the following Principles of Mayer; Multimedia Principle, Coherence Principle, Temporal Contiguity Principle, Personalization Principle. The Multimedia Principle, people learn better from words & pictures than just pictures. The presentation includes a "detective" that explains various aspects of Kennedy's Assassination. Each picture contains a speech bubble with more information. Coherence Principle - there is little extraneous information presented, the presentation contains just the basics of information. Temporal Contiguity Principle, is shown by corresponding pictures and words shown simultaneously for each slide. Finally, the presentation was developed with "plain English" rather than formal language is showing the Personalization Principle. (Jenni Kushion)