MODULE+3+Group+Discussion

Your Discussion this week allows you to organize your thoughts and ideas by participating in a **three-step jigsaw** activity. For the jigsaw, the class will divide into five groups. As a class, decide which group is assigned to each of Mayer’s five principles.

Then, each group will do the following:


 * Step 1:** On the Web, find two multimedia pieces that violate your assigned extraneous cognitive processing principle. Provide specific examples and support them with references to your resources. Include a Web link to each site you selected. Each group member should find at least one example to share with the group. Your group can then work in one member’s wiki to discuss the examples and decide which two you think are best to present to the class. Then, as a group, select the two best examples to post in the Discussion.


 * Step 2:** Post the two examples and Web links to the Discussion by **Week 6**, **Day 3**. Include a brief two-sentence explanation of how each violates Mayer’s principle.


 * Step 3:** Individually, respond to the posts of at least two classmates from two different groups by **Week 6**, **Day 6**.


 * 7/8/10 - Jesus Berrios**

The Coherence Principle states that people learn better when extraneous material is excluded rather than included. Although the link below will present a web page that is conspicuously devoid of sound (the inclusion of which would have enhanced its learning objective), it makes up with an excess of written words. While the relevance of some graphic representations is debatable, the irrelevance of extraneous text is not. This is why I’ve cited it. Check it out.

@http://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/quadratic-equation.html

I ran across this website when I was looking for ways that my students could improve their writing skills. The webpage definitely violates the coherence priniciples by having too many pictures with links and too many words. The material iould probably have been presented in a bulleted list making it a lot shorter and to the point. I think it was a little too busy even though the author's purpose was genuine. As a reader, I did not want to read the article just click on the links.
 * 7/8/10 --- Carol Lee**

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7/9/10 Jane DeWitt

I saw this site as I was looking for items to use in class covering various content areas. The page violates the coherence principlea as outlined by Mayer as it overwhelms the viewer with video clips, flashing advertisements, []

7/11/10 Rebecca Raichle This site offers learning games for children. When looking at the coherence factors of being concise, this web site violates that with too many graphics, a header with too much movement that is distracting from the content of the site, multi-color fonts which make the site very bright, but also distracts,and too many hyperlinks to the same things on both sides of the homepage. http://www.kidsknowit.com/

Here is a link to some incredible websites that meet and __**insult**__ the coherence principles. http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/worst-over-the-top-web-sites-of-2009.html#axzz0tONVSUi3 Just scroll down the page - the thought that more is better gets a whole new meaning from these sites.

If you go to the webpagesthatsuck link, you will be amazed - see if you can even figure out what it is about. http://www.goldenmean.info/