Storyboarding

Storyboards are a creative tool that help children to get their thoughts out and into action. The actual definition of a storyboard is a graphic organizer such as a series of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of previsualizing a motion graphic or interactive media sequence, including website interactivity. These storyboards can be used at many different grade levels and in many different subjects. For instance, when children are just learning to write short fictional stories they may have trouble getting their thoughts organized. By using a storyboard, the children can draw their thoughts out in a short sequence that may help them get their thoughts together for their paper. I think that storyboarding sounds like a new age way of constructing a rough draft. When I was in grade school we would be required to write a rough draft before all major papers. These rough drafts were usually in the form of some chart that would demonstrate our flow of thought. Storyboards sounds strikingly similar with a bit more fun built in. I would like to see further research done to prove if this method of previsualizing is indeed more effective than some older methods that have been used for years. Also, I wonder how well these storyboards would work if they were group assignments in which each student contributed a little of their own original thoughts. Storyboarding sounds like a fun activity for individual students and for classrooms as a whole!!

Article Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyboard