September 2007
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
10h 53m
English
Suppose you are presenting a verbal explanation along with an animation, video, or series of still frames. Does it matter whether the words in your multimedia presentation are represented as printed text (that is, as on-screen text) or as spoken text (that is, as narration)? What do cognitive theory and research evidence have to say about the modality of words in multimedia presentations? You'll get the answer to these questions in the next few sections of this chapter.
Based on cognitive theory and research evidence, we recommend that you put words in spoken form rather than printed form whenever the graphic (animation, video, or series of static frames) is the focus of the words and ...
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