The primary vehicle for instruction during these workshops were the slides provided below.  Steve began each section by presenting the slides, occasionally in tandem with other visuals aids like the arduino or a wiring diagram.  As mentioned later in the critique, and as can be seen in the slides, occasionally the vocabulary and information presented in the slides was a little over the students' heads, but overall, they offered a solid base understanding of the topics at hand.

Specifically related to the design of the slides, I believe the form could have been somewhat improved to better support the function (i.e. relaying content information).  Many of the slides were very text heavy and could have been edited to include more simple explanations and less text.  This would have also supported Mayer's coherence principle, which argues for the elimnation of extraneous material.  

An additional of Mayer's ideas, the Redundancy principle, could have been implemented during the first night, when Steve was explaining how to wire the Arduino chip.  On the second night, he included wiring images, which were incredibly helpful, and thses could have also been included so that the learners could have seen visuals while also hearing Steve present, which would have likely been beneficial to the leraners.

Finally, the slides could have employed more of Mayer's Signaling Principle, which argues for the integration of cues to help the learners identify important information.  This could have helped, especially on the text heavy slides, so that the students could better determine what information they needed to pull from the slides.

Otherwise, the slides proved to be an effective instructional aid, and overall, the students echoed the opinions presented above, in that, at times there was more information than they needed/understood, but in general they were able to pick up the gist of what they were expected to learn.

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