Hi everyone, I used Veed. io platform to make this video tutorial of Slidesgo. This tutorial mainly helps new users who may have heavy mental burdens and nervous emotions about preparing and creating a fascinating presentation PowerPoint for the first time.
Reflection:
- Who did you imagine as the audience for this screencast? How did that impact your design choices?
I imagine the audience for this screencast tutorial tends to the beginner users who may not have much experience with presentation design and are seeking detailed and accurate guidance on using tools like the Slidesgo platform to create professional and eye-catching PowerPoint slides.
Well, I think my audience also can be students who are looking for creative ways to enhance their presentations, such as for school projects, and personal or group presentations. For beginners, I need to introduce the features and usage of the page at a slower pace so that they can keep up and better understand how to use Slidesgo to create a presentation PowerPoint. Additionally, I have to make sure that I provide easy-to-understand instructions such as guiding the user on how to customize the slides – changing colors, fonts, layouts, etc.
Therefore, I use the voice principle, image principle and the signaling principle in this screencast tutorial. This can be reflected in I use (veed.io- a video editing software ) to recording computer screen with voice explaination and accoring text subtitles. Due to this screencast tutrial at least more than two minutes of time is empty. I think this situation will caused audience have visual fatigue. So, I choose to add one popular visual cat animation with a white background picture in the blanken seconds. Next, I choose to use the voice principle throughout the whole process. For example: I use my own voice recording to join the same frequency as the explanation of the text with relevant subtitles, which is more convenient for the audience to understand how to use Slidesgo template to create presentation Powerpoint. Finally, I take the signaling principle, such as using mouse to show every function, how to import chosen template convert into Googleslides and how to set up your own powerpoint in Google Slides.
- Provide an example of a multimedia learning principle that you have intuitively followed in the past and an example of a multimedia learning principle that you have not followed in the past. What will you do differently now?
For my individual and group presentations in my major and elective courses during the previous four semesters, I usually used the signaling principle of using text with pictures that corresponded to the topic of the presentation. I have neither used narration or captions in a slide nor added animation to my present PowerPoint. For example: I will demonstrate the visual interface of the tool and explain the entire process with a voiceover in this tutorial, instead of simply listing a series of tedious steps. This allows the learner to focus on the visualization of following the instructions, avoiding the cognitive burden of dense text. I may not always follow the Coherence principle adding extra details or extraneous visuals to make a tutorial more engaging. For example, adding extraneous background music, or adding too many effects or transitions between sections. While these extra materials are meant to be engaging, they can distract from the core content and detract from learning.
Below is my screencast tutorial on the Slidesgo Platform:
Here is my Comment Blog link of my classmate:
I couldn’t agree with you more, before this I made videos with background music and images that were not relevant to the content of the video. But in this video, I focused on the content of the video and did not add any element that would affect the viewer’s attention.
Hi! I like how you focused on making it approachable for those who may feel anxious about creating presentations. Your design choices, such as keeping a slower pace and providing clear instructions, really cater to new users who might find presentation software overwhelming at first.