How to Incorporate the 10
Principles of Multimedia
Learning in Your Presentation
With the Stanford
Basketball Team
#1 Multimedia Effect
Present Pictures and Words Together.
• The Stanford
Women’s basketball
team is predicted to
win the Pac-10
championship and
be a national
contender.
Together
Words
Words
Picture
#2 Contiguity Principle
Present pictures and words together in time and on the screen together.
• Leading the way is 3
time All-American
Candace Wiggins
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Leading the way is 3 time All-American Candace Wiggins
Have you supported the Stanford Cardinal lately?
#3 Coherence Principle
Extraneous words, pictures, and sounds should be excluded.
• Junior Jillian
Harmon should give
added depth to the
squad
Lookee
here
I hurt my knee playing ball last night
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I hurt my knee playing ball last night
#3 Coherence Principle
Extraneous words, pictures, and sounds should be excluded.
• Junior Jillian
Harmon should give
added depth to the
squad.
Better
#4,#6, and #7 Modality,
Personalization, and Voice
Principles
People learn better through non-accented conversational spoken words.
#5, #8 Redundancy and
Signaling Principle
People learn better from animation and narration, especially when voice
signals important words.
• Coach Tara Vanderveer
is looking to get her
Not
Like
This
third national
championship for the
Farm.
#5, #8 Redundancy and
Signaling Principle
People learn better from animation and narration, especially when voice
signals important words.
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This
#9 Interactivity Principle
People learn better when they can control the pace of the presentation.
#10 Pretraining Principle
People learn better when they receive pretraining on each component.
• Now you have been
trained, so good
luck on your
presentation!