John Johnson by John Johnson

Energy Hog

discardthestars — 2013-09-19 03:25:23 UTC

http://www.energyhog.org/childrens.htm

This was the simulation I chose to work on.

Coherence

discardthestars — 2013-09-19 03:35:28 UTC

I thought it was fairly coherent at first but the further you get into the program the busier it seems to get. There are a lot of graphics that I think are meant to make you feel more authentic in the role you are playing but ultimately feel distracting from hat you are trying to learn.

Signaling

discardthestars — 2013-09-19 03:36:43 UTC

I didn't find too many keywords highlighted or focused on but the things you were supposed to click on were not too hard to find.

Redundancy

discardthestars — 2013-09-19 03:37:45 UTC

There was very little redundancy.

There were not a lot of words repeated maybe a few

of the graphics but that was more about game play

than the actual learning.

Spatial Contiguity

discardthestars — 2013-09-19 03:39:10 UTC

I think this is where it was most successful.

The relevant texts were next to the action or thing

that it was describing. Things grouped nicely together so that

you immediately knew when something new came up what

it related to.

Tem

discardthestars — 2013-09-19 03:44:05 UTC

Temporal Contiguity

discardthestars — 2013-09-19 03:44:06 UTC

Energy Hog works well in this manner to. All the information you need comes forth right after an action to take. If you make a mistake it corrects and it affirms the correct actions that you take. It made me feel very guided.