Wiki+Journal

=Due Date: February 3rd, 2011=
 * Article: "Understanding Multimedia Learning: Integrating multimedia in the K-12 classroom" by SEG Research**

Often the only times I have ease writing responses is when the text is particularly controversial, but this particular text seems to be a pretty straightforward and accurate depiction of what does (or at least //should//) happen in the classroom. Who knows? Perhaps I simply don't like critiquing articles that I enjoy reading simply because I appreciated them for a variety of reasons. Maybe I'm just lazy. Be that as it may, there is a small handful of remarks and questions I wish to pose regarding this article.

Firstly, who wrote it? There is no attributed author other than SEG Research as indicated on the front page. I suppose this isn't particularly important information, but I would like to know for my own records.

I found it especially interesting how the article slowly and easily walked through the entire steps and concept of multimedia learning. The beginning of the article goes so far as to explain what multimedia is and why it is advantageous. I also appreciate the fact that the article even goes so far as to provide the neurological research that went into the findings of the article - even if it did so in a manner that was synthesized and easily digestible to anyone who might not have a degree in the central nervous system.

The article also had a wonderful habit of pausing momentarily and allowing the reader to relax and review. Right about the time that you feel that you need to look away from this article for a moment it pauses and recaps on the information that was just presented.

In fact, one of the interesting things that this article accomplishes is that it seems to utilize the same basic principles and actual delivery of a multimedia presentation, but it accomplishes it through written text on the page. The pacing is great, it isn't overwhelming, it reviews at the appropriate times, and it uses visualizations to reinforce ideas that were presented in the text. The author (whoever he or she might be) validates the very ideas proposed in the article by using them in the typography and presentation of the article itself.

Aside from responding to the content of the article itself, which would be redundant to articulate "Yes. I agree." over and over, this article was incredibly well organized. The presentation supports the content and methodology presented in the text. On a final note, the word "panacea" is used. This is a fantastic word that I learned from a word-of-the-day calendar.