Storyboarding is the use of a series of pictures in separate frames to outline or brainstorm ideas about how to tell a story. The article that I found concerning storyboarding discusses the theoretical underlining’s of a storyboard and explains the techniques for using this excise in a classroom.
Storyboards provide the visual component and the primary component, for communicating with one’s self as well as with others. For this reason, they serve as very powerful tools for learning and education, as well as for organizing thoughts, stories, and projects. It is simply a planning device used to sketch out the actions of a story. The objectives of a storyboard for students are: The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts, they will apply knowledge of literary elements to understand diverse written text, they will use a variety of strategies, apply critical thinking skills, and produce an effective composition for a specific purpose.
Storyboarding allows students to draw their ideas before writing them in words. This helps visual students access the pictures in their head and gives them an opportunity to translate their picture ideas into words. I believe storyboarding is a great technique because as a visual person, I know I would be able to understand a story better due to the visualization of storyboarding. I believe they can be used from grades of kindergarten to high school, or even in the technology world such as, filmmaking, engineering, and writing books.
Teachers can assign storyboards as a prewriting activity or to help their students identify and analyze theme, and to make comparisons with different stories. One other way to use storyboarding in the classroom is to make one class storyboard. Have students draw a major event from the story that they are reading onto a post-it note. Make sure the students write a caption that depicts their scene. Each student can then stick their post-it note on a tag board in the order that the story occurred.
I would like to read more on storyboarding to find out how they can be used with technology. More research on student’s gained knowledge after using or creating a storyboard verse those who did not create a storyboard would also is very interesting.
Article:
http://b3308-adm.uhcl.edu/School_of_Education/SoE/Writing_Project/demo/demo05/CWallace.ppt
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Great post Alicia! The article I read was on using a storyboard for videso and I did not even realize how many ways a storyboard could be utilized in the classroom. I agree that having visual students draw out scenes of a story would really help them to understand the story so much better. I know that I am a visual learner and a storyboard would be very helpful to me. Writting words on paper is really hard to do sometimes but drawing can be looked at as a fun activity and then the words might just flow. I also like the fact that you do not have to be a great artist to do a storyboard. Again great post and I learned a different asspect of storyboarding.
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