I really like the storyboard. I thought that it was a great idea to think of the storyboard as a comic strip. This way you can develop your story from the beginning to the middle and finally have a solid ending. The comic strip premise also gives developers the chance to give each block picture with an action and a line or two of dialog. This is a great way to get your students to develop a story of their own too. I usually have my students draw a picture of the story setting, the main characters, and usually they like to include a monster or some other pop culture icon as the villain. Once the pictures are done they can put words to their pictures. It is really a lot of fun.
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I see the use of this with students also I want to use it as a beginning of school activity. What does the teacher need to know about me?
Hey Cean, yah story boards are a good tool. Something that I have never thought about, but would be a good idea, was using it as a tool for teaching a lesson. You can do every lesson like it was an evaluation planning each phase: what you are going to say, what you are going to do, and what it will look like. It is also a powerful tool that leads up to script writing. A story board and a written out script make a Podcast great.
There is also a reading activity that you can do that is called "read and sketch." It has the storyboard format and the kids sketch as they read...kind of like storyboarding "backwards." :O)
I do like the story sketching, because so often students tell us what they don’t know in their writing...but how do we learn about what do they know? If they sketch and then write, we can see many ideas in the sketch that may be difficult for the child to express with words. Those visuals are as important for the student to begin writing as they are for the teacher to determine if the student is getting their ideas communicated. When you can look at those pictures it gives you a starting point for helping the student go from those pictures to the written word expression.
We have to think about accessible versus the meaning behind it--which is more important? Conventions make it accessible, but is that more important than meaning? I believe the pictures allow a student to gain more with both areas and grow much faster as a writer.
For example, use this with students: I have a dog. I love my dog. My dog is nice.
Get a poster that shows many different types of dogs. Ask students to pick out the dog described in the writing sample above. It helps them internalize the understanding that they need more ideas and content.
I think storyboarding offers the best of both worlds...the meaning gleaned from the sketch and the words together.
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