Challenge B – Substantive Post #1

For this post I decided I’d share a video I found that relates to my Educational Comic, it is called “The brain-changing benefits of exercise.” This video, featuring Wendy Suzuki, specifically looks at how exercise affects the brain, cognition, and mood.

(84) Wendy Suzuki: The brain-changing benefits of exercise | TED – YouTube

Upon watching this video, there were 5 of the multimedia learning theories that I thought were well demonstrated. The first was the Multimedia principle, which Suzuki utilizes by using both her verbal narration along with visuals to help the audience build a clearer mental image. An example of this is when she uses a brain image on her slides and verbally points out the specific areas of the brain she is referring to. Suzuki uses signaling throughout her presentation, by saying things like “number one,” “number two,” or “finally” as she goes through the slides. She also uses numerical order to guide audience attention and add structure to her presentation with statements such as “the following three reasons…” Suzuki uses Personalization by using a very conversational style of presenting that feels relatable to the audience. She does this by sharing personal stories and using “you/i” statements that makes the audience feel more connected to her. Suzuki uses her voice in a very expressive way with excellent pacing and avoids sounding robotic, thus really engaging the audience. Her delivery, timing, tone, taking appropriate pauses, and using emphasis where needed really demonstrate her utilization of voice. This leads right into the final principle that I found to be well demonstrated in this video which is her segmenting or pacing. Suzuki breaks her presentation down into segmented chunks and transitions between them with very nice flow.