Brain Gym DVD

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Brain Gym DVD

• By
• Mari Longpre

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Primary Objective

• Facilitate the learning of motor based exercises

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Motor Learning Exercise

• Brain Gym Educational Kinesiology
• Series of 26 exercises
• Designed to enhance whole brain learning
• Book targets teachers as primary providers of
  exercise instruction

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Instructional Methodsto Learn Brain Gym
Exercises
Book
Direct instruction
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Brain Gym Book

• Cross Crawl Exercise
• Instructions
• In this contralateral exercise, similar to
  walking in place, the student alternately moves
  one arm and its opposite leg and the other arm
  and its opposite leg.

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Direct Instruction

• Certified Brain Gym Instructor
• Cost 40/hour
• Need multiple hours of instruction
• Limited availability
• Rely on memory and book to reproduce exercise
  later

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Proposed Instructional Method
DVD
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DVD

• Easy to operate
• Instant Replay
• Auditory, visual presentation
• One time cost
• Visual feedback on proper execution of form
• Multiple chapters allow quick access for review
  of just 1 or more exercises

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Video
Visual demonstration
Graphic animation
Auditory cues
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Video Studio Editing EquipmentandOperators
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Additional Personnel
Models
Subject Matter Expert
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Instructional Design Method

• Rapid Prototype
• Quick construction
• Evaluation of strengths and weaknesses with end
  users prior to full scale development
• Overlapping design events

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Low-Fidelity Prototype

• Quickly developed
• Contains the fundamental design approach
• Lacks complete functionality/interactivity
• Communicate and inform end-users
• Created one QuickTime video and subjected it to
  formative evaluation.
• Revised video.
• Repeated formative evaluation.

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High Fidelity Prototype

• Complete functionality/interactivity
• Have look of completed project
• Takes more time and money to create
• Four of the 26 exercises were filmed, edited and
  burned on to a DVD with chapters.
• Subjected to summative evaluation

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Results of SummativeEvaluation
Teachers and therapists support the DVD as a
superior instructional method to learn motor
skills. The interactive visual and auditory
media enhanced the participants understanding
of the basic concepts of the exercises.