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 * Sites that violate the //Spatial Contiguity Principle://**

Hetzel: Here is my document for the spatial contiguity principle!

[] After trying myself to tie this knot I was utterly befuddled! Now I know that I am a female who has never really had a reason to know how to tie ties, but one never knows when there will be an event that I have to tie a tie for my husband, so I looked it up! I thought this short learning opportunity in violation of the spatial contiguity principle in two main areas. First: this lesson left out a relationship that should be there. The directions never tell you not to look in the mirror as you begin to follow the steps. If you try to follow the directions in the mirror you will end up with a catastrophe of a tie. And second the graphics are helpful, but are lacking directional arrows that could really help in trying to get the tie tied correctly, and the area of focus is too small for the learner to properly see the correct way.

Moran: [] This site is to demonstrate how to find the slope between two points on a line. This site violates the Spatial Contiguity Principle in that it does not place the text on the illustration/demonstration, so that the learner can easily and more directly see the relationship between the points on the line and the appropriate substitution of the coordinates into the equation. A remedy to this might be to place the formula for slope on the coordinate map so that the learner can easily see the corrrelation between the formula and the points on the map.

Creighton: @http://www.craftyarncouncil.com/instructions_kn.php3 Toward the bottom of this page of directions for beginning knitters are two series of illustrations that are numbered with the directions above the illustrations in a numbered list. According to mayer’s spatial contiguity principle, the text should be directly below the illustration, one at time. How to roll out dough @http://www.ochef.com/427.htm This site gives step by step directions for rolling out a pie crust dough but does not include pictures of the process. Instead, it shows pictures of an ad for losing belly fat and an ad for a smart phone. According to Mayer’s theory of multimedia, this site should include pictures along with the text. It would be much more comprehensible for a beginning cook if it included pictures of the process, even simple ones, and posted the ad photos elsewhere on the page. The Water Cycle and others Having taught the water cycle every year, I find this site very confusing. It does have nice graphics, some even 3-D, but the way the page is laid out, the graphics take up the entire page and the user has to scroll down to read the text that explains the graphic, which then is out of site. Moreover, at the bottom of the page are a series of charts, with one following another and no explanation in between them. The site could be much more useful if it were laid out with the graphics on one side and the text beside it, in keeping with Mayer’s spatial contiguity principle.**
 * @http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.westsidercd.org/Images/Water_cycle.png&imgrefurl=http://www.westsidercd.org/Education.html&h=589&w=860&sz=762&tbnid=13jhHN7D-b4QGM:&tbnh=99&tbnw=145&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwater%2Bcycle&hl=en&usg=__3M6Uwr7X570YGYuE6RQylufj-Ns=&ei=0VNKS5DgI4SVtgeq9PHjDQ&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=4&ct=image&ved=0CBEQ9QEwAw

Anne B-G Contributions:

How To Solve A Rubik's Cube []

Thia website violates Mayer's spacial contiguity principle by separating the text and the diagrams, as well as just plain being confusing. If they had combined the graphics and text or put them side by side, or provided animation rather than arrows, this would have helped (although I've never been able to solve one of these).

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 * Installing Ceramic Floor Tile **

May the home imrpovement deities look after anyone who must depend on this site for their information and guidance, because the information is so deeply buried in the site that it is almost unavailable. Mayer would have a field day with this one, as there is just WAY too much text and not enough pictures and diagrams, and they need to be positioned better for reference purposes. Imagine trying to use this site when you have thinset mortar all over your hands and you have to page or mouse up and down through the text to find the one step you need to finish the project you are working on.