Script – 

The video opens with upbeat music playing in the background. Text overlay reads: “Welcome to our cooking tutorial: Hot Rasam Bowl

  • There is no such thing as a lentil soup in India. It is always rasam. When you are sick you don’t get a bowl of chicken soup but a big hot steamy bowl of rasam with a big dollop of neii. My mom always claimed that if we drank one bowl of this soup every day, we would have no digestion issues. Now I’m not sure how credible that information is and I have never bothered googling it either.
  • “Ingredients” Voiceover: “First, let’s gather our ingredients.

We need lentils obvious, onion, garlic, and tomato for the tempering we need cumin, mustard seeds garlic, black pepper, dried curry leaves chilli, salt pepper and chilli powder

Add ginger garlic paste to the lentils boil them until they are soft,

Mash them into a rough paste

Now in a separate bowl add oil, mustard seeds, cumin, and dried red chill. Wait for them to stutter, Now add onions tomato and the dry spice powders.

Add them and let it simmer.

A hot bowl of rasam is ready 

1) What is the learning purpose of your video?

The learning purpose of the video multifaceted

  1. Recipe Sharing – The video teaches the viewers how to prep and make a dish called “Rasam”. This shows the ingredients you require and the cooking method. 
  2. Cultural Awareness – As I share a story from my childhood and culture, this also emphasizes the importance of food in Indian culture.

Q2) Why is video a good medium for this learning purpose?

I feel like after going over the Mayer’s principles, I have realized that education and communication has a lot of depth. Video becomes a good medium for this learning purpose because it leverages Mayer’s principles of multimedia learning to enhance understanding and engagement. Through the integration of narration and demonstrations, it facilitates active processing by providing learners with multiple channels for processing information simultaneously. The use of real-world demonstration aligns with the coherence principle, ensuring that content remains focused and relevant.

Q3) Which of the principles we’ve covered this term (e.g., Mayer/Universal Design for Learning/Cognitive Load Theory) did you incorporate into your design and why?

While writing the script and storyboards, I incorporated principles from Mayer’s Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning to optimize the learning experience.

Mayer’s Personalization Principle: Research shows that people learn better when information is presented using conversational language, rather than more formal speech. In this video, I have used a more conversational tone as if I am having a conversation with a friend

Mayer’s segmenting principle –  

The video is short and segments into various parts like ingredients and methods.

 Merrill’s first principle- The video ends with a question asking the viewers to think about the connection of food to their culture. This engages the listener. as it asks them to consider alternatives

UDL Guidelines – The video has captions and transcripts 

These use a simple, sans serif font that’s easy to read.

Signaling principle – Using text overlay to indicate the beginning of a new segment helps learners to focus their attention.

Active Processing: Viewers actively engage with the information by visually identifying the ingredients.

Q4) What was challenging about capturing your own video?

The most challenging part for me was managing the camera angle. As I was shooting the video to just show my hands while cooking making a stand to hold the camera was very challenging. It was also hard to get the lighting right.

The selection of the recipe that I wanted to showcase and adding a cultural component without taking away from the recipe and finding that balance was also challenging.

Q5) What did you find easiest?

The easiest and most fun part was creating a working demonstration. I love cooking and being able to showcase that with the class was something that made me really happy. I also enjoyed writing a script that attempts to weave in a story to make the video interesting and engaging. Despite finding it challenging to find the right camera angle, I really enjoyed the process of figuring it out.

Q6) How would you approach capturing video differently next time?

Next time, I could borrow the camera from the library and improve the video quality, making the video much better.

Elaborating on the story component where I can talk to some of my friends from a similar cultural background to share stories could also help engage the videos and increase the educational value of the video further