The video that I have made for this assignment is based on another video assignment being done for another class. Since this other assignment is a group project and is still in progress I decided to focus my video on specifically the section that I worked on which was the history of harm reduction. With this video it is presented more as an educational presentation with a slideshow presentation. Majority of my updates and changes made were to the slides and the visuals. Both presentations were made through Canva and utilized its library of icons and other elements.

Below are the original slides that are being used for the other video assignment

The updated presentation was primarily updated design wise, particularly the principle of contrast was kept in mind. The original presentation is a group project that already had a theme by the time that I had started to work on it, so I worked with what the other members had added to make my part cohesive with everything else that was added. When updating the presentation I wanted to make all my visual elements cohesive. To accomplish this I stuck to a black and white theme so that it would be easier to find and edit the visual elements to better match each other. Other than that added a slide to explain the topic better and added a intro and conclusion slide. The new topic slide sort of brings Mayer’s principle of pre-training to the video as it sort of better prepares the listener to the rest of the video.

The layout remains largely unchanged as I quite liked it and the information that I added. Though I do understand that these two presentations do not follow the multimedia learning principles to the T. They do show a decent segmentation of information in different time periods and the video allows the listener to scroll back to replay parts for better learning. The Cognitive load principle could be better executed as there are visuals, text and narration, though I attempted to make it easier by keeping the ideas separated in the text boxes and with more simplified visuals.

If I were to further improve this presentation again, I might highlight certain pieces of text to utilize the signaling principle and further point out the important bits of information. I had not thought to do this before completing the video. I would perhaps also try to further reduce the text in each slide as a lot of it is redundant, but I find it hard to follow the redundancy principle in more educational types of videos and presentations.