Challenge B: Healthy and Balanced Eating
Authors: Alexis Moore, Julia Snidanko, Hailey Godfroid
We are creating this project to help pre-teens feel more comfortable and confident when making their own food choices. Our team includes Julia Snidanko, Alexis Moore, and Hailey Godfroid. We chose this topic because we all believe that healthy eating is essential for both the body and brain. It’s especially important to educate children as they begin to take more responsibility for their health, so they can build long-lasting positive habits. The goal of this project is to provide clear and engaging information.
Hailey’s Video:
Hailey’s Feedback:
When looking over the feedback provided by my peers, various points were brought to my attention regarding both strengths and weaknesses within my prototype. Strengths my peers highlighted were overall thoughts on the topic, adherence to multimedia learning principles, and construction of the storyboard. On the other hand, some weaknesses addressed regarded the verbal information provided, and constructive thoughts on learning insights.
In terms of the strengths of my prototype, it was highlighted that the overall subject and setting would help encourage the audience by being more personalized and motivational: the implication of how healthy eating affects your overall performance for both recreational and educational activities. In addition, it was mentioned that the prototype makes strong use of Mayer’s Segmenting Principle with how the scenes are separated out into digestible chunks.
When viewing the weaknesses that were underlined, the prototype could have included deeper verbal cues and information. More specifically, the inclusion of audio/narrative cues would help to strengthen my overall prototype. Furthermore, providing deeper insight to how the scenario style video could help enable certain learning outcomes.
Hailey’s Reflection
My finalized video was an example of a scenario styled educational video. After receiving feedback from my peers, I was able to correct, revise and expand upon multiple points within my final product. I took various suggestions to implement when finalizing my video. I added more in depth of information and audio cues. I tried to build on my strengths of visuals and narrative, as well as addressing Mayer’s Theory to create an overall more convincing and easy to follow result. With the time limitation of the video, as well as the scenario format, I personally found it very limiting to properly balance the scenario itself with educational information. I struggled to elaborate on the learning outcome, and create a more informing video.
The process of this project proved to be a challenge to myself, with some conflicts of communication and production. During the ideation and creation phase, I fell very ill and fell behind in my coursework, this made communication within my group quite difficult as I was in a different place than my peers. Thankfully, both Julia and Alexis were very understanding and willing to work with the awkward timing. Due to these unforeseen circumstances, I realized how communication earlier on in the process could have benefited our group. When creating my video, I found Powtoon to be a highly powerful video creation tool. I had originally intended to create my own visuals and use a video editing software, however while viewing what tools my peers had utilized I settled on using Powtoon as well. The navigation of Powtoon was very simplified and easy, and I found it easy to break down in technique. In terms of the final result, I overall felt satisfied with what came of my video, and how each of our videos could work together as a series.