Comparison of Bibliographies

1. While reading the different bibliographies, I was concerned that I would not fine one similar to mine as most reviewed online resources or similar items. As I am more driven to the development of resources, I was looking more at the interface and what made for a great learning experience.

When I read Joseph Roper’s work, I found parallels to the material I had found.

Joe’s choice of “The effects of instructional media on learner motivation” parallels the work I cited with “Beyond Nintendo: design and assessment of educational video games for first and second grade students” as both works delve into the parallels of using interactive, instant feedback, electronic media and the students motivation to learn.

Joe’s choice of “Applying multimedia instruction in e-learning” looks at the proper use of visuals to augment text based learning. This fits in that now we have teaching for both left AND right brained learners. This fits in with the paper “Towards a Methodology for Educating Students with Special Needs” where content is assessed to ensure that it fits with the learner’s needs.

The paper “Design Factors for Educationally Effective Animations and Simulations” ties into the work done in paper “The Future of Computer-based Interactive technology for Teaching Individuals With Moderate to Severe Disabilities: Issues Relating to Research and Practice” where both are looking to design interactive educational material that fits the cognitive abilities of the learner.

Joe’s third source dealt with authentic assessment As none of my resources dealt with testing other than the transference of learned skills to a general setting, I don’t have a close comparison here.

2. Joe and I did not share any resources but his seems to come from an end-user perspective. The angle I come from is more doing the right thing when developing the program. Basically, designing a rubric to build a software/hardware package to. His work does seem more grounded in the connection of the multimedia to the learner’s willingness to participate in the learning process. I think that is why his resources came as close to the perspective my resources had.

3. Joe’s reply to the questions were as follows: I found my sources using the GVSU database and tried many different search options with little success. I resorted to taking articles I already had and looking in their bibliographies for useful sounding articles. I think I found 2 of my sources from bibliographies. The database I use the most is ERIC, although a general summons is my first search. To be honest I had a difficult time finding sources I actually valued. There was a lot of stuff out there, but much of it didn't seem useful to me.

My son had shown me Google Scholar and I sent a reply to Joe asking if he had ever used it. I remember years ago using PsychoLit search engine in the library to find research articles. Google Scholar uses Google’s great search algorithm to pull up research articles and may times gives a link to a .pdf of the paper. While I feel Joe’s pain in reference to his difficulty finding relevant sources, I did like his idea of searching out bibliographies of papers he already finds relevant.