Photo by Brett Jordan, Unsplash Grown-up Guide to Clean Hands Subtitle: Meet Georgia and her little sister Holly, two tiny heroes teaching adults the importance of handwashing. Updated: February 20, 2026 Author: Chelsea Kirkpatrick Introduction It is a common assumption that we wash our hands frequently. However, in my experience working in a hospital, adults…
Remove Impairments to Improve Accessibility Accessibility ensures that all students, regardless of age, ability, or device, can access content and participate fully in their learning. While reading “Inclusive Design for Social Media: Tips for Creating Accessible Channels”, I was surprised to learn that approximately one billion people have some sort of disability and can’t engage…
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In reviewing the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning the principles of coherence and signaling seem most intuitive. If a slide is cluttered with extraneous materials and the presenter fails to highlight essential material then our working memory will not have the capacity to learn effectively. What surprised me was the Redundancy principle. I assumed people…
I am a third-year student in Public Health, returning to UVic to complete my second degree, and have been out of university for over 10 years. My skills in interactive multimedia haven’t improved significantly over the past decade and I want to be able to keep up with my fellow classmates. A lot of the…
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