What’s on the Multimedia Principles poster
A 7-row table: Principle · Do this.
Each principle names a way to cut load from a multimedia explanation.
- Coherence — Delete anything decorative
- Signalling — Highlight what to look at
- Redundancy — Do not read the on-screen text aloud
- Spatial contiguity — Put labels on the picture
- Temporal contiguity — Show words and image together
- Segmenting — Let the learner control the pace
- Modality — Narrate a graphic, do not caption it
Well supported and repeatedly replicated. Effects are largest for novices and for material the learner cannot pace themselves.
Questions about the Multimedia Principles poster
- What’s on the Multimedia Principles poster?
- A 7-row table: Principle · Do this. Each principle names a way to cut load from a multimedia explanation. Coherence — Delete anything decorative; Signalling — Highlight what to look at; Redundancy — Do not read the on-screen text aloud; Spatial contiguity — Put labels on the picture; Temporal contiguity — Show words and image together; Segmenting — Let the learner control the pace; Modality — Narrate a graphic, do not caption it. Well supported and repeatedly replicated. Effects are largest for novices and for material the learner cannot pace themselves.
- Who is the Multimedia Principles poster for?
- Multimedia Principles belongs to the Education section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning educational technology can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Multimedia Principles poster?
- Apply them to every slide deck, explainer video and online resource you make. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Multimedia Principles belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Multimedia Principles?
- Adaptive Software, Generative AI In Teaching and Digital Natives sit alongside Multimedia Principles in the Education section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Adaptive SoftwareGenerative AI In TeachingDigital Natives
- Is the Multimedia Principles poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Multimedia Principles downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Education section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Multimedia Principles poster print at?
- Multimedia Principles is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Multimedia Principles loses nothing.Printing guide
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