Multimedia Learning and H5P
January 23, 2026
This week’s learning objectives of how multimedia material can help to make learning more engaging was very useful as a teacher candidate.
To establish a baseline of understanding of multimedia design, we were provided with two pre-class resources that helped to build a foundation of knowledge of the learning topics. One resource was a Soundcloud audio by Kevin Alexander on “Multimedia Design for Learning”:
and the other resource was a video by Dr. Ray Pastore on “What is Multimedia Learning? What is Multimedia”.
During the Dr. Ray Pastore video https://youtu.be/g-sknUVq1mk, I attempted to sketchnote my thoughts into a visual format, tieing ideas and thoughts into sketches. However, my final result was surprising as my so-called ‘sketchnoting’ resembled a text-heavy mind map. Upon reflection, I noticed that it took me longer to think of how to represent thoughts into drawings than if I just wrote the words down in a text format.
My own experience demonstrates that learners have individual learning preferences and diverse learning styles, highlighting the importance of integrating varied formats like multimedia learning.
As a teacher candidate, I do think that including H5P interactive tools would be effective in teaching secondary level social studies classes. By utilising H5P in the classroom can help students to become active and engaged learners rather than passively absorbing knowledge. In addition, by incorporating H5P helps to provide personalized learning and student agency with the ability to pause, replay, or fast forward a video.
By editing an assignment medium with video editing, would allow a teacher to highlight important concepts for student learning such as by: bolding or italicizing historical dates during the video, incorporating speech bubbles to emphasize important facts, and even having the video pause to display a formative multiple choice quiz.
In summary, while today’s class was challenging, learning a new skill pushed me outside of my comfort zone. However, a few deep breaths helped me pivot and refocus, turning a technology obstacle into a positive outcome .
Amy