Hi Katie,

Your post this week was a great read, and as a Health Information Science (HINF) student myself, I really enjoyed your in-depth analysis of the Telus Med Access platform! One thing I particularly liked about your blog post this week were the images you included. In adding these images, not only did it add value to your post, but it also helped segment your post into digestible chunks of information. Additionally, I appreciated the infographic you created which summarized your SECTIONS evaluation of Telus Med Access. In particular, I like how you integrated the Signaling Principle into your infographic by adding arrows to redirect viewers’ attention. Considering people learn better when key information is emphasized through application of cues, your application of the Signaling Principle made the content of your infographic easy to follow, and helped enhance my overall understanding (Mayer, 2014).

Like you mentioned in your post, technology and media are heavily utilized within the HINF program; therefore, the SECTIONS Model is a useful guide when evaluating new tools which are to be integrated in the program. Although Telus Med Access did not fulfill all components of the SECTIONS Model, using this approach revealed the platform was still valuable. For instance, like you said in your post, Telus Med Access does not support networking, but the tool still promotes interactivity between students. Despite the networking drawback, evaluation using the SECTIONS Model provided instructors with an all-encompassing view of the technology which demonstrated the tool was still beneficial. As a result, I think your analysis successfully demonstrates how using the SECTIONS Model can be an effective guide for teachers when evaluating technology.

Great work!

Xinh

References

Mayer, R. E. (Ed.). (2014). The Cambridge handbook of multimedia learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139547369