Benefits of Storyboarding
I really believe in the benfits of storyboarding. Usually in an online environment, we are only partially able to post things, say on the Announcements section. I love including articles, tid bits on pitfalls of the week, extra questions to have students ask themselves and possibly a few videos from youtube for students having a hard time with a subject. It's the part of the course that I love to be creative! Usually, it's an evolutionary process. By the 3rd time or so I teach a course I have many layers of components I have storyboarded and implemented. How do you use storyboarding in your courses? Where do you have creative freedoms in the courses you teach?
I also like to add you tube videos as a way to supplement my lecture online as well as further explain or give a visual to the concept. Each student displays a different learning style and therefore offering the material in different mediums is important. If you can offer your material designed for each learning style, everyone would benefit. Seeing, hearing, applying, etc.. All give the learner a better shot at retaining the material and gaining a better understanding of it.
Dawn Huber
Donald,
It is a lot like comic books, organized graphics!
Shelly Crider
I do not know what is meant by storyboarding in an online course. When I think of the word "storyboarding", I think of Martin Scorcese making up storyboads for the movies that he directs. I also think of comic books. Am I missing something here?
Each module, as well as the course, should be designed in a way to assist students in mastering the competencies. By developing a story board, the student will be allowed to build a foundation, add layers, and be assessed appropriately. From beginning to end, the students should feel engaged and understand that they are building on their foundational knowledge.
FYI...Storyboards are the blueprints of an interactive courseware design and development process and depict a visual outline of a computer mediated learning module. They provide a combination of text (instructional components) and a description of the supporting multimedia components (images, audio, video, etc.). The more complete, detailed, and accurate the information is, the fewer the assumptions, questions, delays, confusion, and errors that occur later, during the costly development phase.
Christopher,
I would like to think that instructors online are very creative!
Shelly Crider
I agree storyboarding is an excellent way to tap into multiple learning techniques and keeps the student engaged. I think it is great to use clips, articles, definitions and examples. Teaching through this process is only limited by your own creativity.
I can "see" the usefulness of storyboarding as it provides the designer/developer of e-learning courses the basics and details of materials to be used and presented in the course. It should be a "living" system as it can be a pictorial checklist to include the basics and additional materials that are found useful as the course matures. The downside of the "storyboard" process as a pictorial system (such as used in video/picture programs) may be quite time consuming to those not adept in such techniques.
Lara,
Students love these resources! I do not currently use storyboarding in my class, however, I am looking forward to other comments!
Shelly Crider
