Quick Overview
The target content of this instructional design video is to share the Parent-Teacher Center resource on www.starfall.com with the specific focus on ready-made and customizable worksheets that are freely available from this Educational Foundation and Non-Profit organization. The intended learners are homeschool parents, teachers, and any stakeholder in a child's education. The revised video is 6 minutes long to allow for adequate cognitive processing time between instructional steps that explain how to download, and print, ready-made and customizable worksheets. I added dead air into the video to allow for more processing time before moving on to the next step.
Audience: Educators, Professional Development, Homeschool Parent Support
Responsibilities: Visual Design, elearning, Instructional Screencast
Tools Used in Development: www.starfall.com, Starfall Parent/Teacher Center, Camtasia
Process & Skills Demonstrated:
I began by explaining what the video would teach thereby using the Pre-Training Principle by equipping the learner with with knowledge that made it easier to know what the video would be about and what the takeaways would be from watching it.
I used Mayer's Signaling Principal of Multimedia Design by using my curser, zooming in and also adding call outs. I also used the Coherence Principal by removing seductive details, irrelevant words and "extra" pictures from the video.
In effort to create framing continuity, I undid the cropping from my first take to create a 16:9 ratio throughout the entire video. I followed the contiguity principal by simultaneously presenting (revised) narration and pictures/video. Additionally, I rerecorded several audio assets that had been previously recored using a headset (that created the very noticeable difference between audio clips that were recorded with the iMac microphone and then the headset microphone).
I also finally purchased a Blue Yeti after my frustration with the sound quality on this project. Moving forward, I will be using a new microphone.
