Storyboarding your Idea / Building a PowerPoint Catholic Distance Learning Network -- March 2007 Dr. Ralph Olliges Webster University Part 1 of 3

What is a Storyboard?

Our Philosophy of Composition Photo from America’s LibraryAmerica’s Library For Unity of Effect: Keep it short Write with your end in mind Edgar Allen Poe ( )

Start with a Meaningful Activity Resolve two things first –What is the point or purpose of my lesson? –What kinds of exploratory questions can I ask a student encountering it for the first time? Develop the activity Make use of popular search engines in the framing of your activity. There is a great deal of material already online concerning your topic. See if any of it can be modified for your purposes before you invest time and energy in creating something new.

Discuss the Activity Break the idea into parts –What are the component parts concerning it? (Each is one slide.) –What are the supporting ideas for each of the component parts? (All supporting ideas go on the same slide with the component part they support.) –What are the develop- mental ideas for each of the supporting ideas? (Quotes, narrative examples, and such can be moved to the audio narration.) Every idea is a system with component parts. Each part will have its own complexities that support its role within the greater system. All you’re doing is breaking that down for your learner. Photo from NASANASA

Taking Care of the Tangents Link to Slideshows that Can Fully Explore Tangents using –PowerPoint FormatPowerPoint Format –Web FormatWeb Format –Producer FormatProducer Format Photo from Illinois.govIllinois.gov

Conclude the Activity Explain the idea in context with the environment of which it is a part –What is the significance of your point or purpose? –What is the impact of that idea on the field? –What is the applicable value that can be derived from this explanation? The fundamental principle that our ends are bound up in our origins is at play in this kind of project design because we started with our end in mind. Photo from Berkeley LabBerkeley Lab

The Impact on You What you Have –A learning module that any student can use as a means by which to interact with the course materials –A slideshow that you can share with colleagues within your discipline for their own use or with colleagues outside your discipline for cross- referencing Photo from Wikipedia.comWikipedia.com The Match-Cut Transition in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Our tools build on themselves.

The Impact on your Discipline Where you’re Heading –An entire collection of learning modules that will provide students with a choice-making opportunity –A slideshow database to which your colleagues contribute in the effort to develop resources for one another. Photo from NasaNasa