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Group Members: Yahira Aviles Diaz LeAnn Morris Sara Sharick
 * Coherence Principle: People learn better when extraneous words, pictures, and sounds are excluded rather than included.**

(1) [|www.brainpop.com] or [|www.brainpopjr.com] Although this website is often used by instructional personnel as supporting sites, I selected them as my first option because of one of the main character, Moby. Moby is a robot that does not speak (not our language-speaks robot); he makes beeping sounds. Therefore, in order for this character to be understood by the audience has to recur to type its questions, or the other two characters translate (by repeating) the question in Englis. This character and its sounds are irrelevant to the learning. The designer could have though of a more pertinent or coherent character for this website. (2)@http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Um9KsrH377A This second option is an advertisement. Although it is not an academic related advertisement, it does show us how important it is to use multimedia directed to a goal in mind to not lose our audience. This is an over 4 minutes Pantene advertisement (more like a short movie). As I was watching it, I could come with several other topics for this long advertisement. It could have been an advertisement for an anti-bullying campaign, motivation, values and moral, etc. However, I would never remember this advertisement as one that promotes a shampoo brand. The same way, students may be mislead to remember the non-important parts by the usage of inappropriate multimedia.
 * Yahira Aviles Diaz** -- Examples of two multimedia pieces that violate the Coherence Principle:

(1) The Cyberwise Guide to Digital Citizenship Video at [] (2) Family Online Safety Institute – Research - Who Needs Parental Controls? A Survey Of Awareness, Attitudes, And Use Of Online Parental Controls Findings From A National Survey Among Parents at [] with a PowerPoint Presentation.
 * LeAnn Morris** -- Examples of two multimedia pieces that violate the Coherence Principle:

(1) http://www.slideshare.net/SafetyFUNdamentals This example uses pictures and text but no audio. It was difficult to understand what was being covered. The graphics were terrible and at times the text was difficult to read.
 * Sara Sharick** -- Examples of two multimedia pieces that violate the Coherence Principle:

(2) http://youtu.be/t8IfQp4A4ZI This example is making fun about 5S - something we are currently implementing at our office. It exaggerates how terrible this new policy is and the robotic tones of the actors makes it difficult to listen to. = =