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According to Rich McCue’s two versions of storytelling. The audio just describes the 3-2-1 backup plan briefly, and mentioned the story of a student who lost her laptop during the fire accident. This audio gives me an auditory sense but no visual sense, which enhances my working memory (Brame, 2015). For one thing, this audio recording is useless for audience engagement. For another, recording audio clips have a similar function to storyboarding. Audio recording can highlight the thesis of the story.

The video version extends the real-life story from the audio version. This time McCue has used the first person to introduce this story. McCue describes why that student’s laptop is destroyed as well as further details of the fire. Images that link to the story give me a strong visual effect. Then the rest of the video McCue concludes the importance of the backup plan.

McCue’s storytelling of the 3-2-1 backup plan has satisfied all of Mayer’s multimedia learning principles. However, the most apparent principle is the pre-training principle. Even though the audio recording has mentioned the backup plan, it gives context before audiences watch the video.

In addition, this storytelling regardless of action learning both in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Merrill’s principles. Both video and audio focus on describing the real-life story (Merrill), but there’s no further step in using the 3-2-1 backup plan. According to McCue’s objectives for storytelling, both video and audio do not meet these objectives. For example, where could people find suitable storage is not mentioned.

this is my script for the video in learning purpose

I refine my script by adding several personal experiences. This storyboard shows what scenes I would show to audiences.

Reference

Brame, C.J. (2015). Effective educational videos. Retrieved [todaysdate] from http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/effective-educational-videos/.

James Greenwood (n.d.) https://www.james-greenwood.com/instructional-design/toolkit/merrill/#:~:text=The%20premise%20of%20Merrill%E2%80%99s%20first%20principles%20of%20instruction,principles%20are%20necessary%20for%20effective%20and%20efficient%20instruction.%E2%80%9D%28p44%29