Storyboarding for eLearning

Cathy Gillespie

TCANZ – Christchurch

13 November 2013

Storyboarding …

• What is it?

• Examples of eLearning

• Process (briefly) and why you need to be involved

• Impact of not being involved

• Action mapping

• Tools

• Examples of storyboards

Best Practice in Online Teaching and Learning

• Presentation

• Engagement

• Facilitation

• Assessment

• Creating learning objects

• Evaluation

… part of the Post Graduate Diploma in Education (endorsed in eLearning and digital technologies)

Variety in types of eLearning

Stand alone course Facilitated

course

LMS (Moodle)

It is not just taking an face-to-face or print-based course and putting it on screen …

What is storyboarding?

A storyboard is a tool that maps a learner’s experience through activities in a learning event.

A storyboard is a detailed course plan to help in the development of an eLearning course. It specifies the content that is to be covered, presented screen by screen, based on a logical and educationally sound pathway through the learning. It includes details of the resources the learner will be exposed to and explains how the learner will engage with the material.

?

Learner experience

You are writing for an experience – not always a narrative, not always simple step by step.

Think in 3D!

Development process

AVOID REWORK

Where do you start?

Action mapping

Cathy Moore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj5M4KCfTwohttp

http://blog.cathy-moore.com/2008/05/be-an-elearning-action-hero/

http://tayloringit.com/2011/02/craigs-thoughts-on-learning-podcast-1-action-mapping/

Interactivity

• Need to know what it is to be able to write for it.

• Need to write to a deeper level of instructional information.

http://www.articulate.com/community/showcase.php

http://blog.cathy-moore.com/resources/elearning-samples/

Interactivity

Interactivity

• Need to know what it is to be able to write for it.

• Need to write to a deeper level of instructional information.

examples

TRUE FALSE

#1. The earth is flat.

#2. The earth is billions of years old

#3. We cannot fly into space.

#4. Plastic can be re-used.

#5. The earth was formed from a huge explosion.

#8. There are 8 colours of a rainbow.

Quizzes

MarkingFeedback AmbiguityLearning or

testing?

TRUE FALSE

#1. The earth is flat.

#2. The earth is billions of years old

#3. We cannot fly into space.

#4. Plastic can be re-used.

#5. The earth was formed from a huge explosion.

#8. There are 8 colours of a rainbow.

What is storyboarding?

A storyboard is a tool that maps a learner’s experience through activities in a learning event.

A storyboard is a detailed course plan to help in the development of an eLearning course. It specifies the content that is to be covered, presented screen by screen, based on a logical and educationally sound pathway through the learning. It includes details of the resources the learner will be exposed to and explains how the learner will engage with the material.

Do I have to?

Rapid Build Tools

Tools and example storyboards

Make sense?What

storyboarding is

Example of eLearning

Impact of not being involved

Action mapping

Examples of storyboarding

Possible tools

Rapid development

Development process