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Category: Multimedia Learning

Assignment 4: Multimedia design group project (Group-H)

Group H members:

  • Disheng Zhang
  • Edward Yan
  • Tiancheng Zhang
  • Zhengqiao Zhong

Overview

This course mainly introduces:

  • The history of Chinese cuisine. Knowledge of different cuisines and the history of Chinese food will enable you to create not only delicious food but also an appreciation for the history and culture that the cuisine represents.
  • Various Chinese seasonings. Understanding commonly used Chinese food seasonings is crucial for the study of future courses. Different Chinese dishes require different seasoning combinations to create the most delicious food possible. Without understanding various seasonings, it is almost impossible to create tasty Chinese cuisine.
  • How to make a Chinese dish on your own. Learning how to make Chinese cuisine by hand can give you an understanding of the cooking methods that are drastically different from those of other cuisines. Chinese cuisine does not have strict requirements for the amount of seasoning used but rather allows for a lot of flexibility to suit individual tastes. Completing this process will also make you more adept in subsequent learning.

Lesson Objectives

By the end of this class you will be able to:

  • Understand the history of Chinese cuisine.
  • Identify common Chinese seasonings and understand their use.
  • Independently prepare a taught Chinese food.

Read/Watch

Chinese Food 101: North vs. South vs. East vs. West – Eat China — (4 min) Some essential explanations about the food in different regions of China.

The 12 Must-Have Chinese Seasonings — (10 min) Some common condiments in Chinese cuisine are introduced.

The Five Major Cuisines of China — (9 min) The five most famous Chinese cuisines and their differences.


Content

Chinese cuisine uses a variety of condiments to enhance the flavors of dishes. Here are some common condiments used in Chinese cooking:

Commonly used Chinese food seasoning

Chinese cuisine features:

Chinese cuisine is one of the world’s oldest and most diverse culinary traditions. It can be divided into the eight local cuisines of Hui, Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Sichuan, and Zhejiang. Each region has unique flavors and cooking techniques, but some general characteristics are common to Chinese cuisine.

  • Flavor balance: Chinese cuisine pays great attention to achieving flavor balance. This involves balancing sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, and salty flavors to create harmonious flavors.
  • Use fresh ingredients: Chinese cooking often uses fresh ingredients such as vegetables, meat, seafood, and herbs. However, using seasonal ingredients is also essential in Chinese cuisine.
  • Cooking techniques: Chinese cuisine adopts various cooking techniques, such as stir-frying, steaming, braising, boiling, and deep-frying. Each technique is used to bring out the taste and texture of the ingredients.
  • The importance of color: Chinese cuisine attaches great importance to the color of dishes. The use of different colors not only enhances the visual appeal of dishes but also represents different flavors and nutritional values.
  • Use of sauces and seasonings: Chinese cuisine uses a variety of spices and seasonings to enhance the flavor of dishes. These include soy, oyster, hoisin, and Chinese five-spice powder.
  • Health benefits: Chinese food is known for its health benefits. Many dishes contain ingredients believed to have medicinal properties and can be used to prevent or treat disease.

Introduction to Eight Chinese Cuisines:

Introduction to Eight Chinese Cuisines

What should be paid attention to when making Chinese dishes?

When making Chinese food, there are a few things to pay attention to:

  • Preparation: Chinese food usually requires a lot of preparation, including shredding, marinating, and blanching. Make sure you have all your ingredients ready before you start cooking. 
  • Heat control: Chinese cooking usually requires high temperatures, so being able to control the heat of the stove or wok is very important. Preheat the wok or pan before adding ingredients, and adjust the heat as needed to prevent burning or overcooking. 
  • Balance of taste: Chinese food pays great attention to the balance of flavor. Pay attention to the dish’s sweet, sour, salty, and savory ratio to ensure a harmonious taste.
  • Timing: Many Chinese dishes are prepared quickly, so timing is essential. Before you begin cooking, ensure all the ingredients are ready and pay attention to the cooking time to avoid overcooking or undercooking. 
  • Texture: Chinese cuisine also emphasizes achieving a variety of textures in dishes, such as crispness, softness, or chewability. Pay attention to cooking methods and the order in which ingredients are added to achieve the desired texture.
  • Visual: Chinese cuisine usually consists of colorful and visually appealing dishes. Pay attention to the presentation of dishes, including the arrangement of ingredients and garnishes.

Make a Chinese cuisine dish by yourself

We will explain to you how to make a famous Chinese dish—-Kung Pao Chicken, by yourself.


Reflection Question

These questions are designed to inspire you to think about this lesson. Choose one or more issues that interest you and comment on them.

  • What do you think are the characteristics of Chinese food in general? What are the differences from other cuisines?
  • Which Chinese cuisine are you most interested in? What attracted you most to him?
  • What problems do you encounter when trying to make a Chinese dish? What do you find different from other dishes?
  • What don’t you know about Chinese seasonings? Which seasonings are you most interested in? Why?

To do this week

  • Complete all reading/viewing activities and read all the material for this blog.
  • Make a video of yourself making Chinese food and post it on your blog. 
  • Evaluate other people’s production videos.

Reference

Facebook.com/thewoksoflife. (2022, October 9). 8 Chinese cuisines & how they differ. The Woks of Life. Retrieved April 6, 2023, from https://thewoksoflife.com/8-chinese-cuisines/

The top 10 most common herbs and spices used to flavor Chinese food. (n.d.). Retrieved April 6, 2023, from https://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/chinese-food/herbs-and-spices.htm

Chinese food culture. (n.d.). Retrieved April 6, 2023, from https://www.chinadiscovery.com/chinese-food/food-culture.html

Chinese food culture. Chinese Food/Cuisine: Culture, Ingredients, Regional Flavors. (n.d.). Retrieved April 6, 2023, from https://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/chinese-food/


Theories and Principles

Infographic: I incorporated the principles of “Limit your color palette”, “Keep imagery simple” and “White space is a good thing” into my infographic on Chinese seasoning ingredients. By limiting the color combinations to several lighter colors, the infographic became easier to read and less confusing. Additionally, I used only a few simple images that were relevant to the content, as complex images can distract from the main message. I also made sure to leave ample white space, as an infographic that is completely filled with content can be overwhelming and uninteresting. These design principles helped me create an effective and visually pleasing infographic.

Sketchnote: About Sketchnote, I Segment Chinese cuisine with painting to simplify it. And add a few words to explain the characteristics of each significant cuisine to facilitate understanding.


Final Project Plan

Final Project Plan

Blog Post#5 Active and Passive Learning

This week, we learned about active learning and passive learning, which are two very different teaching methods. Active learning is an approach to instruction that involves actively engaging students with the course material through discussions, problem-solving, case studies, role plays, and other methods. Passive learning is a method of learning or instruction where students receive information from the instructor and internalize it. In comparison, active learning can effectively increase students’ learning motivation, make them more interested in learning, and promote their active learning.

Most of the courses I have studied have been through passive learning. However, through studying EDCI337 this semester, I have found that the majority of our teaching methods in this course are active learning. Every week, we learn new software or strategies and explore how to use them by ourselves. In this learning situation, I find that my memory of the course content is deeper.

Historia, the example of game-based learning in this week’s Read/Watch list is relatively low tech – how would you use multimedia tools and content to support and enhance the active learning? What would it allow them to do that they’re not doing right now?

I think Kahoot! is a great multimedia tool to enhance active learning. Kahoot! is an online game-based learning platform. It allows instructors, organizations, and parents to set up fun web-based learning for others. Instructors can use this software to create interactive quizzes to assess students’ understanding of course content, which can include multimedia content such as images and videos. It will undoubtedly increase students’ interest. Kahoot! can also be used to create polls and surveys, allowing instructors to collect feedback from learners on their learning experiences. This feedback can be used to improve game-based learning experiences and customize them based on student’s needs and preferences. It can also promote collaborative learning, allowing students to form teams and compete with each other. This can help students develop teamwork and communication skills, as well as cultivate a sense of community and engagement. Additionally, the most important thing is its gamification strategy, where Kahoot! incorporates gamification elements such as points, badges, and leaderboards to motivate learners and maintain their engagement. This creates healthy competition among students and can help learners maintain focus and motivation, therefore enhancing the effectiveness of game-based learning experiences.

Compared to the current situation, using this multimedia tool can have several benefits for students. Firstly, its gamification strategy can increase student motivation and engagement by creating a more competitive environment. This can lead to a stronger desire to learn and even encourage students to continue learning independently outside of class. Additionally, teachers can use this tool to create more interesting and interactive quizzes, making learning more enjoyable and effective for students. Finally, the tool also allows for easier and more efficient feedback collection from students, allowing teachers to make more informed decisions about how to improve their teaching.


H5P

I decide to use “Drag and Drop” for my H5P project. This is my project content.

Assignment#3 Core Multimedia Skills

Since I returned the film camera to my professor after completing my photography class assignment, I was unable to create a video related to last week’s storyboard. Therefore, I created a new storyboard related to watercolor painting and used it to create this video. This video covers the knowledge that needs to be understood before learning watercolor painting.

Storyboard

When beginners start painting, they often wonder if they need a variety of painting materials. In fact, for beginners, only a few brushes, paints, and basic watercolor paper are sufficient. Therefore, I think this part should be placed at the beginning. Many people may have no prior knowledge of watercolor, so for the second part, I choose to talk about “Understanding watercolor paints for beginners”, which allows students to know that watercolor painting is essentially the mixing of water and paint in different proportions to create their own artwork. Once students have mastered the first two parts, they can begin to prepare for painting. Therefore, for the third part, I choose to discuss some of the most basic watercolor techniques. These are the most fundamental and important techniques in watercolor, which are needed by both beginners and professional artists. It is hoped that students who have watched this video can learn the fundamental knowledge of watercolor painting and be ready to start their subsequent learning.


While creating the content for this video, I found the multimedia learning principles I learned in this course are very helpful. I used five of Mayer’s principles: The signaling principle, the Multimedia Principle, the Personalization Principle, the Voice Principle, and the Image Principle.

The signaling principle is that people learn more deeply from a multimedia message when cues are added that highlight the organization of the essential material. In the video content, I used arrows and different colors to highlight important information. The multimedia principle means people learn better from words and pictures than from words alone. In my video, I used various images to illustrate key points. Those images can help to clarify meanings. The personalization principle means people learn better from multimedia presentations when words are in conversational style rather than formal style, so I choose to use a conversational style of expression in my video. After considering the voice principle, which means people learn better when narration is spoken in a human voice rather than in a machine voice, I choose to record my own voice instead of using a machine voice. For the last principle, the image principle, people do not necessarily learn better when the speaker’s image is added to the screen. Therefore, I choose to only record my voice in my video rather than show myself on the screen.


Reference

Mayer, R., & Fiorella, L. (2014). Principles for Reducing Extraneous Processing in Multimedia Learning: Coherence, Signaling, Redundancy, Spatial Contiguity, and Temporal Contiguity Principles. In R. Mayer (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology, pp. 279-315). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139547369.015

Principles of Multimedia Learning – Center for Teaching and Learning | Wiley Education Services. (2016, July 19). Center for Teaching and Learning | Wiley Education Services. https://ctl.wiley.com/principles-of-multimedia-learning/

Blog Post#4 AI Tools & Storytelling

What tools did you find useful in your explorations this week and how did you use them? Which ones were not useful?

Recently, I have heard a lot of discussions about artificial intelligence tools, and last week I learned about AI-related knowledge and tried using several tools. I tried using ChatGPT to search for a game introduction to help me remember the game process, which can assist me in thinking about related issues in my video game class. I also came across the issue mentioned in class. When I asked ChatGPT to find a few articles for me, it would fabricate an article that meets the requirements, including its introduction and URL. When I tried to confirm it with ChatGPT, it would admit that it was incorrect. Here is my experience using ChatGPT.

Experience of using ChatGPT
Issue of ChatGPT

What might you use AI tools for moving forward? What would you not use them for?

For short analytical and computational problems, I believe using artificial intelligence tools is feasible as it can help us save time and increase our work efficiency. However, for questions that require our own thinking, I would not choose to use it. I believe we should not let AI replace our own thinking.

Storytelling

Through this week’s learning, I have discovered that storytelling is a highly effective teaching method. It can make learners more interested in the content and more focused on the subject matter. I would like to use this method to share my knowledge about how to use film cameras that I have learned this semester. Below is my script:

After setting up the film camera, the next step is to use the camera to take photos until the entire roll of film is used up. For my photos, I used a Jellycat toy as the subject.

Once the photos have been taken, it’s time to develop them in the classroom. The first step is to put the film in a completely opaque bag and roll it up before placing it in a black bucket. Next, two chemical solutions provided by the teacher are used to develop the film. After about half an hour of processing, the film is rinsed, dried, and blown dry. Finally, the photos are cut to the desired size and put into a bag. These are the basic steps for using a film camera.

Here is my storyboard:

Blog Post#3 Infographic & Lesson Design

In the week5 I learned the knowledge of how to make a good PowerPoints and infographic. Before I learned this content, I always made a mess of PowerPoint but couldn’t find the problem. After learning this week’s content, I found that I lost a lot of principles when doing PPT in the past. I also learned how to create my infographic in Canva. Infographics are a powerful tool for organizing and presenting information and telling a story. We can always see all kinds of infographics in our daily life, which can increase people’s interest in reading and watching. Canva is a website that helps people make infographics, it allows me to create my infographics more easily.

Infographics

I made a infographic of how to improve focus, the reason is that when I study, sometimes it is difficult to concentrate, it may be interrupted by some trivial matters or not managing time well, etc., I have been trying to solve this problem and make my study more efficient. This is my infographic.

Infographic of Four ways to improve your focus

Which design principles did you use to create your infographic in Canva? Which elements of a ‘good infographic’ were you able to incorporate? What other principles did you consider?

I think many principles are very useful, I used “Limit your color palette”, “Keep imagery simple” and “White space is a good thing” on my infographic. I think an infographic should not have too complicated color combination, which will make it look confusing, so I choose to use several lighter colors to make it more comfortable to read. Too complex images will affect the focus of the infographic, and people will pay more attention to the images rather than the content, so I chose to use a few simple and content-related images. I think “White space is a good thing” is the best idea, if an infographic is completely filled with various colors and content without any white space, it makes me feel a little disinterested, so I put lots of white space on my infographic. I think it also similar with “Leave lots of negative space”.

Lesson Design

For the design class, I designed a plan for a dessert making class. This is my lesson design planning template.

Dessert making class design

Blog Post 2# Sketchnotes

Generally, I used to take notes to record the content explained by the teacher, or record the important content in the ppt for later review. Most of the content is text. This has led to a very serious problem that there are very few ideas or content of my own in the notes, so that I can’t always find what I am looking for when reviewing.

After learning sketchnoting in the third week, I found that it is a very useful and efficient way of taking notes. Sketchnotes are rich visual notes created from a mix of handwriting, drawings, hand-drawn typography, shapes, and visual elements like arrows, boxes, and lines. It can better allow me to record what I have learned in my own way, and I will never forget the position of the note again.

I am a person who likes to draw very much, so sketchnoting makes me feel that taking notes is not so boring. I use this to take my notes in painting class this semester, this allows me to learn in a more intuitive way. It makes me no longer constrained to use the form of words to record what I have learned. The biggest advantage of this is that when I see what I have drawn, I can immediately recall the thoughts and practices when I recorded these contents. When I don’t look at the notes but simply recall what I’ve studied, these images can also appear in my mind to help me recall.

In The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning, Wolfgang Schnotz wrote: “What is multimedia learning? From a psychological point of view, the core of multimedia learning is the combined comprehension of text and pictures. This does not necessarily require high technology. Multimedia learning is also possible with printed books or blackboards instead of computer screens and with the human voice instead of loudspeakers. Multimedia learning is therefore not a modern phenomenon.” I think this is very similar to skethnoting. They both combine graphics and text to make it easier for people to understand the knowledge they need to learn.

This is my sketchnotes I did from my painting class and my health economic class.

AE306 Sketchnote
ECON317 Sketchnote

Reference:

Van Merriënboer, J., & Kester, L. (2014). The Four-Component Instructional Design Model: Multimedia Principles in Environments for Complex Learning. In R. Mayer (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology, pp. 104-148). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139547369.007

Blog Post #1 Introduction

Hello everyone, welcome to my Blog. My name is Tiancheng Zhang, you can also call me Arthur which is my English name.

I’m a forth year economic student and this is my last semester at Uvic,I hope I can gradate successfully, since I putted at lot effort on my study. After finish my undergraduate program, then I can plan for my future, maybe about my future study or my career. I’m not sure what kind of job I want to do in the future. This is one thing that I have been thinking recently. During leisure time, I like reading, drawing, watching movies and playing video games. This is the view from me lying on the couch.

My favorite view

I have taken many online courses during covid 19 period. Last semester I have 2 online courses. The 1st is econ 321, which is my Required Course, the 2nd one is ahvs 311F, which is horror video game, and its really interesting. Personally, I like online study, it provide me more flexible time, I can study from home instead of driving to school, it is time saving.

The reason I choose this course is that I’m very interested in interactive and multimedia learning. I want to try a variety of learning methods, because I think it is an essencial part in nowadays education, especially in online study. I hope that through this course, I can learn relevant knowledge in depth.

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