Overview

For this week’s Daily Creates, I focused on creating three different forms of multimedia, text, image, and audio. These Daily Creates can be found on the Today’s Daily Create (TDC) website. I first wrote a poem on sunshine, then I took a photo of an object that is meaningful to me, and finally I made an audio recording of me saying a phrase in a language I do not speak.

Daily Creates

When Life Gives You Sunshine

This Daily Create asked me to create a poem beginning with the line “When life gives you sunshine”. I gave it a shot, speaking about how beautiful the sun is when it shines upon the earth, and how something so simple is worth enjoying in the moment before the sunshine disappears.

When life gives you sunshine,

Step outside,

Bask in its warmth,

Watch as its rays

Gently touch every object and being,

For Earth's good friend has come

to say 'Hello' before once again,

Disappearing behind the shadows of the skies

Meaningful Object

This next Daily Create asked me to show or describe an object in my house that is meaningful to me. I decided to share a photo of my childhood favourite stuffed bear. I grew up with this bear for many years of my childhood, and he has followed me during many lifetime adventures. I used to bring him to and from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut (my childhood town) to Victoria, British Columbia, and places in-between when my family and I would visit relatives during holidays. I’d take him on the bus, in the car, to restaurants, and stores. I’m quite glad I never lost this stuffed bear and have kept him until this day.

Introduce Yourself in a Language You Do Not Speak

This Daily Create instructed me to choose a language I do not speak and say “Hello, my name is [my name]. I am okay.” It said I can use Google Translate to translate it, then I can listen to the pronunciation, practice saying it, then record myself saying it. I chose to say the phrase in Gujarati, as I cannot speak it but my partner speaks it. I used both Google Translate and his help to say it. It translates to “Namaste, maaru naam Janae chhe. Hu thik chhu.”

Reflection

The Daily Creates this week reflect multiple course concepts. I used different forms of media (text, image, and audio), and each of these formats contribute to learning and allowing for expression in different ways.

The first Daily Create with the poem on sunshine made me think of active processing. According to Mayer’s Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning, learners think of logical meaning through “an active process of filtering, selecting, organizing, and integrating information” (Granchelli, 2025b). Writing the poem required me to select and filter words that relate to warmth, memorable experiences, and the beauty of sunshine then organize this into a poem, integrating the meaning of the poem into words.

The “meaningful object” Daily Create relates to dual coding theory. The photo of my childhood stuffed bear allows for visualization of the object, while the text provides meaning to the object in the photo. Dual coding theory is where two separate channels of information (language and images) can be processed by the brain at the same time as one system of the brain processes language and the other processes images (Granchelli, 2025b). Schnotz (2022, as cited in Granchelli, 2025a), states that learners learn better through words and pictures together than words by themself. The photo on its own just looks like a old teddy bear in a chair, but with the text, the photo suddenly has a deeper meaning associated with it.

Finally, the Daily Create on recording myself speaking in Gujarati made me think of accessibility and Universal Design of Learning (UDL). I do not speak the language, but I was able to use Google Translate as a support tool as I did not just rely on text, but I listened to the audio of it to understand how to pronounce it. This aligns with the UDL guideline of providing multiple means of representation, as having multiple learning formats such as both text and audio helped meet my learning needs and contributed to my learning better. As stated by Granchelli (2026), in regards to providing multiple means of representation, things like providing visual and auditory channels for processing information such as alt tags, captions, transcripts, and user controls allow for customizable learning.

References

Granchelli, A. (2025a, September 11). Text and image: The sum is greater than its parts. EDCI 337: Interactive & Multimedia Learning. https://edtechuvic.ca/edci337/2025/09/11/text-and-image-the-sum-is-greater-than-its-parts/

Granchelli, A. (2025b, September 5). Theories of multimedia learning. EDCI 337: Interactive & Multimedia Learning. https://edtechuvic.ca/edci337/2025/09/05/theories-of-multimedia-learning/

Granchelli, A. (2026, May 6). Accessible multimedia. EDCI 337: Interactive & Multimedia Learning. https://edtechuvic.ca/edci337/2026/05/06/accessible-multimedia/