so my artefacts are trying to show how digital media is an effective teaching method, due to its advantage of being able to combine audio/visual learning styles and also aid kinaesthetic learning. I will be comparing multi sensory learning tasks, with their single sensory counterparts in tests to determine which has a more positive result. My first artefact/s is a short stop motion animation about a cat. The idea is to have a group of people watch the animation along with its audio commentary, and a different group of people listen to the commentary alone. They will then both be asked the same set of questions about the story - and the results compared. I'm not 100% happy with my animation, as the camera I used didn't have a remote, therefore its very jumpy - however this will not effect the experiment.
The main things I needed to consider when creating this were:
+ Lots of objects and actions that can easily be described using audio alone. (It's no good having complex factors within the animation, as the listeners won't be able to see it, therefore it will not be a fair test. Simple objects such as the 'Blue shoes' and the 'Domino' and easily recognisable and easy to imagine.)
+ Many different colours/objects/actions to show/describe. (If I simply put the cat in a plain room with one/two objects - there wouldn't be much of a challenge and all questions could be answered easily, making the experiment appear useless).
+ A scenario/storyline which is easy to understand - (therefore does not distract from the actual objects and surroundings)
+ It's not too long! Research shows that the average person can remember up to 7 things, for 30 seconds. Therefore, I want to push this just a little by having the artefact just over 30 seconds, and around 10 questions.
Here is an example of the animation (incomplete - no audio):
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