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Heather Besecker

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Heather L. Besecker EDU 588: Curriculum and Instruction Capstone Grand Canyon University November 13, 2024 Mary Webb

Professional Development Design

Storyboarding

Audience: K-12 Teachers Duration: 2 hours Goal: To provide teachers with strategies to engage their students through the use of storyboarding in the classroom. Teachers will explore three applications of storyboarding including Sketch & Tell, Pixton, and Storyboard That. Agenda: 1. Introduction- Review survey results and storyboarding background (10 min.) 2. Share how Storyboarding Improves Job Performance and Its Practical Applications (10 min.) 3. Sketch & Tell - Introduction to Sketch & Tell and Collaborative Google Slide Activity (20 min.) 4. Pixton - Explore how Pixton makes storyboarding engaging and review the step-by-step process (20 min.) 5. Storyboard That - Create a Storyboard That account, explore the templates and resources found on Storyboard That, and create the job-embeded storyboard activity based on the plot of a favorite book or movie (40 min.) 5. Padlet- use the Padlet to share and collaborate on ways to use storyboarding in the classroom (10 min.) 6. Satisfaction Survey- teachers give feedback based on the professional development sesssion (10 min.)

Presentation Overview & Step-by-Step Details

12. Satisfaction Survey Revisions

8. Resources and Materials

9. Padlet Collaboration

11. Satisfaction Survey

13. References

10. Presenter Notes

7. Storyboard That and Job-Embedded Activity

6. Pixton

5. Sketch and Tell

4. What Are the Practical Applications of Storyboarding?

3. How Can Storyboarding Improve Job Performance?

2. What is Storyboarding?

1. Survey Results

Click each topic to navigate

"Simply asking teachers what they’d like to learn can go a long way toward making PD more valuable for your staff" (Mancinelli, 2020).

TEACHER Survey Results

62%

interested in Storyboard That

Storyboarding and Storyboard That

"We know that stories have a special place in the hearts and minds of learners and have the power to evoke fascination, curiosity, wonderment, and action" (Jacobs & Zmuda, 2023).

Storyboarding has been a tool used for many years to share content in a powerful way.

An animator named Webb Smith who worked for Disney Studios in the 1930s first introduced storyboarding (Jacobs & Zmuda, 2023).

An illustration can be much more than just a picture. It is a way to communicate visually.

Storyboards can be simple hand-drawn sketches or created using digital tools.

What is Storyboarding?

Anything can be told as a "story". Students are more engaged in this format of learning.

Use to summarize, explain, or outline a concept (Bakkegard, 2023). They can make learning abstract ideas more concrete.

Teachers can see their students' thinking (Bakkegard, 2023). This can improve comprehension and communication.

Helps teachers and students organize ideas into a logical sequence (Bakkegard, 2023).

Engagement

Breakdown Concepts

Visualize Learning

Organize Ideas

How Can Storyboarding Improve Job Performance?

Reflect on your learning and if the learning is clear

Predict what may come next and how it can apply to what you learn in the future

Share with others what you have learned

End of the lesson

Checking for Undertanding

Summarize the story, process, content, or material learned

Break down the concept by showing the sequence

Within a unit

Plan an essay, story, or presentation

Make predictions about how something works or how to solve a problem

Draw what you already know about the concept

Beginning of a lesson

What Are the Practical Applications of Storyboarding?

Students create a sketch based on a prompt using drawings, images, tools, or shapes. After sketching, students share it with a peer. Then they write a reflection on how the visual connects to the key concept or lesson.

Sketch and Tell

Directions: Click the resource below. Sketch or use a tool, shape, or image to illustrate your favorite dessert. Share it with a partner and then write why it is your favorite. Click the image to create your sketch and tell.

Students create a storyboard in a comic book style. Students can complete introductory lessons on the basics of creating a comic. Teachers select story starters and lessons by grade level that are premade for students to complete. Click the image to try it for free.

Pixton

Pixton provides 6 lessons for teachers to use with their students on how to introduce the concept of storyboarding. The lessons cover:

Getting Started
The Tools of Storyboarding
Storyboard Layouts
Creating a Setting
Designing Characters
Working With Problems and Solutions.

Click the plus sign to check it out.

Introduction to Storyboard Creation

Students create infographics, posters, timelines, novels, and storyboards. Teachers can find premade lesson plans, activities, templates, and articles about how to use storyboards. Teachers can create and customize worksheets and graphic organizers.

Storyboard That

Worksheets

Storyboards

Comics

Infographics and Posters

Timeline Templates

click the plus signs to explore storyboard That Resources and materials

Student Tutorial Video Resource

ViDEO

Using Storyboard That, create a storyboard explaining the plot of your favorite movie or novel. Try to include at least four scenes to show the plot including the exposition, rising action, climax, and resolution. Click the plus sign to go to Storyboard That and complete the activity.

Job-Embedded Learning Activity

This learning activity can be used in your classroom as an introduction to using the Storyboard That website. Begin by showing the video tutorial video to your students and then assign this activity.

Learning Activity Example: Can you guess my favorite movie from the storyboard?

Plan an essay
Map out a current event
Create a timeline
Brainstorm Ideas
Create goals
Retell a story
Outline the steps in the scientific process
Steps to solve a word problem
Show how to solve a long division problem
Review a book
Illustrate vocabulary
Plan the dialog for characters

Suggestions for Classroom Use of Storyboards

Storyboarding in the Classroom Article

Fun History of Storyboarding Video

Pixton Teacher's Tech Video Tutorial

Sketch and Tell Slideshow

Sketch and Tell EduProtocol Video Tutorial

Relevant Materials to support the learning activity - click each title to go to the resource

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Let's collaborate! What have you learned about storyboarding? How can you use it in your classroom? Click the arrow to share your thoughts and ideas on Padlet.

Click to take the satisfaction survey.

Based on the feedback from the satisfaction survey my colleagues took after I led the professional development training, I was excited to read that they liked being able to select the type of PD they would be attending based on their interests. They were happy to attend this presentation because it was one that they had showed interest in learning about. In addition, based on their feedback, I added video resources so that they could see more examples and templates on how to use Storyboard That in the classroom. Other teacher resources were also added for the Pixton and Sketch and Tell activities and I added an article to explain how storyboarding is being used in classrooms. A final video I added to the presentation was created for students to watch as an introduction to doing storyboarding and it was given high praise by my colleagues. They mentioned that they would definitely use it. A final revision that I made was I changed some of the titles of the slides to be more specific on how the information on that slide would benefit teachers in their practices.

Satisfaction Survey Revisions

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