Again, my aim is to assist Registered Nurses in the hospital identify changes in their patients with respiratory acidosis. This tool organizes the identifies a process in the patient assessment without numbers but uses top down, left to right alignment pg. 128-133. I have chunked the information in 4 large chunks and not more than 7 content chunks, pg. 125 states that these are within the 0ptimun limits for learners. I have used clip-art with color to create learner appeal pg 265 for better visual cues of the process. I also felt that the information was better designed in a table format rather than a concept map as I wanted to emphasize the "steps" or process rather than the interaction of the information page 133. Even though the values for pH, PaCO2 and HCO3 are not words, I placed those chemical notations before the values so that the learners would be able to refer to the values pg. 139, and also I added the arrows so that the nurse who did not remember the normal values would know that the value was greater than or less than and could utilize that information to diagnose the patients underlying condition.
Please let me know if this is organized and if you are able to follow the process. Should I use numbers or arrows to send the learner to the next process? And finally do I need to use bold? Thank you very much for your feedback
Ann: I could clearly follow it in its organization of left to right, top to bottom; and the four large chunks as well as the color. I feel all these can direct the learner to follow it as planned. I would say it is good enough as it is.
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Ann, this is really good! I love how you used the table format - that makes it very clear about what's going on and the colorful clip art adds interest or *novelty effect* too.
ReplyDeleteSomehow the text to the right doesn't quite fit. (me thinks :>) Maybe the arrows are too thin so you don't get a quick sense of temperature up... perhaps they should be thicker & in color to show a strong relationship? Or maybe leave them out as they add busyness to the verbiage?
Also what about more white space in the text chunks to facilitate information processing (p.125)or perhaps use a sans serif font so the text align more with your images which have distinctive lines too ?
I think the top down left to right methods works well because it's clear where the learner should start. This also supports classification of the categories.(p.131) Great justification! Kim