USING STORYBOARDS TO PLAN YOUR PRESENTATION
The article I read proved how important storyboarding is, and how everyone can benefit from it. It is important for children to write down their thoughts and ideas as soon as they think about it, and then express themselves while using images and pictures instead of words. Microsoft published this article to show the importance of using storyboards, and transferring them into PowerPoint slides, with minimal wording as possible. The article talked about how students can learn to transfer the statements from the story template to PowerPoint, and then transforming the PowerPoint presentation into storyboards.
Storyboards are really important, helping us shift from creating a presentations of images, to creating pictures that work together to tell us a story. Therefore, the world of visual storyboarding can be really helpful, especially to younger children. Usually, younger students like the draw more, and don’t rely and writing very much. Storyboarding can help them develop their ideas, by ways they enjoy, and things they like doing. According to the article, storyboards ensure that everything you say and show maps back to the structure and sequence of a story.
I think students learn a lot better if they have visual aids or props in front of them. Therefore, storyboarding before they start writing gives them a brief idea of what they need to accomplish, and what they are trying to do. I know I learn better if I draw things, because my mind is able to grasp the concept a lot faster. Therefore, using storyboards in the classroom has many positive aspects that can benefit the students in more than one way.
I would like to do further research on the use of storyboarding in the classroom today. I highly doubt that teachers are using it as a tool to enhance learning, or even an aid to teach nowadays. I think that if teachers became more aware of the benefits of storyboarding, they will definitely reconsider, and put it to use in their classrooms.
The original article can be found at the following link:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA011886711033.aspx
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4 comments:
Krystel I think this summary of storyboarding is very useful! I liked how you talked about using PowerPoint slides as a tool for storyboarding. I did not think of that. My question was how technology can be used with storyboarding and that answered it. Thanks!
I also agree with your comment on how this would be useful for younger students. Using visual aid deffinitaly helps children learn better then with nothing.
Although you do comment that it may not be used by teachers as a teaching aid, I do think it can. Teachers can have group storyboarding in order to enhance the students ability to work together and grasp the understanding of the stories they read.
Great job
Alicia
I really enjoyed your article. While I was doing research on storyboarding, I was thinking about how I would be able to implement it in my classroom. I want to teach elementary school, specifically kindergarten or first grade, and everything I was reading, even in other peoples' blogs were about how it could help develop a student's writing. I was getting a little bit discouraged, but then I read your article where you pointed out that storyboarding would help younger students tell their stories by using a technique they already know: drawing. I was very excited that you pointed this out! I hadn't even thought about that at all; I had only thought about possibly only using it for my own lesson plans, so thanks for pointing that out!!
Krystel, I agree that storyboarding is very helpful for children. Children think mostly in pictures and storyboarding is exactly what encourages this. I do think storyboarding is a great teaching aid and will get students excited about subjects like english and reading. You have a great post!
i think you surely summed up what storyboarding is about. i really didnt know what it was until i did my research. i didnt know that you could use powerpoints. i also agree how it can be a visual aid. im a visual learner myself, so i can relate to that.
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