Storyboards

The article I read this week was called creating and using storyboards. The article talks about how a storyboard is basically a breakdown of an entire production such as a movie or computer based software. A story board uses pictures and words to organize a model of the movie or computer based software from start to finish. Storyboards aid producers and designers to organize all of their material and information so that it is all easier to read and to find. The article talks about the basic form of a storyboard as well. Storyboards can help save time and money because they can prevent a producer or designer from leaving out important details in the production itself, if this happened it could cause the producers and designers to have to go back and make changes which would take time and money to do.

I think that storyboards could definatly be a good tool for teachers to use both on their own and in the classroom. They could use them on their own to map out lesson plans or even the lesson plans for the entire day or week so that they could ensure they didnt leave out any important information. Also, I think that they could be of good use in the classroom because they could teach kids organizarional skills as well as make learning a little bit more fun. Its good for teachers to introduce new methods or teaching and new tools into the classroom to keep things interesting to the students.

I think that the article was very informative and it taught me a lot about storyboards. I would definatly be interested in further exploring the idea of using story boards in my teaching career someday. I think they are a great tool for organization that you can use at low to no cost. I would definatly consider using storyboarding in my teaching career.

Link to article: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Practices/Creating-and-Using-Storyboards/