Hi everyone. My name is Ziyi Liu. You can also call me Hazel. I was born in Hebei, China. My hometown is extremely attractive since it is a prosperous and dynamic province. Mixed with different cultures, it broadens my learning and inspirational horizons since I was young.

This is my second year and I am majoring in economics. I am always keen on reading certain books related to social development and philosophies.

When it refers to my personal interests, I like boxing very much. I join a local boxing club and it arranges two online classes a week. It teaches actions, notes and diet collocation with multimedia tools. When I have problems in boxing, I can have interactive feedback and assistance from my group mates in time.

In this course, I hope to attain more useful knowledge about  multimedia management. Multimedia learning is necessary in our daily life and it is important for us to know how to learn effectively with interactive skills and multimedia tools. 

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As for week 2’s reading materials, I am very impressed by certain basic principles of multimedia learning. Mayer (2014) proposed several important principles of multimedia learning. His words give a new perspective in certain ways. Firstly, he proposes the coherence principle and argues that when teaching, teachers should not include too much non-related elements in the lesson plan, such as background music. Previously, I thought both acoustical and visual elements are important in the multimedia class. I mistakenly thought the more teachers used these elements, the better students learn better. However, through the principles provided by Mayer, I get to know the key multimedia elements and ratio.

Reference

Mayer, R. E., & Fiorella, L. (2014). Principles for reducing extraneous processing in multimedia learning: Coherence, signaling, redundancy, spatial contiguity, and temporal contiguity. In R.E. Mayer (Ed.), The Cambridge handbook of multimedia learning (pp. 279-315). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.