Artefact Five Evaluation

The fifth artefact produced involved kinesthetic and visual learners altering a block of text to find out how the learners would change the layout of text on screen in order to understand information more effectively. The aim of this was to be able to view the different styles of preferred layout amongst the learners in order to influence design in the final artefact. The text was emailed to several learners with instruction on what to do. It was seen that there were similarities between the layouts when they were altered. Each person divided up the text into chunks, some smaller than others, this shows that they do not think one large block of text promotes learning. The use of bold text and sub-headings was common, as was the use of colour. A few learners also used underlining as a way of separating sections. It was interesting to see how separated most of the learners made the text, this clearly made it easier to read and also therefore more appealing to extract information from. I also received some feedback from the learners on what they thought of the exercise and it was clear that by moving and altering the text they found they were able to absorb information more easily than they would have if they had just been given a piece of paper containing information to read. I have discovered how visual and kinesthetic learners would prefer to see text laid out and the information I have gained from this artefact will allow me to effectively display the information I will be using to create an interactive Flash based learning tool.