Storyboarding

The topic for this week was another one I was not to keen on. I had never heard of storyboarding before. I could only relate the word to story telling, so I figured it had something to do with makin a story with technology somehow. The article I choose for this week's topic was found in a section of a website called Using & Teaching Educational Technology. The title of the article is "Digital Storytelling: A Pratical Classroom Management Strategy," published August 3, 2006. It is written by Mechelle M. De Craene who is a teacher.
Digital storytelling is when an individual or group of people craft a movie from start to finish. Storyboarding can be used in the classroom for students to enhace their creativity and writing skills. There are three phases that are in involved when making a digital story. Phase one is pre-production, phase two is production, and phase three is post production. Mechelle only talks about phase one, pre-production, in the article. She says this phase is the gearea for teachers. Pre-production is the cornerstone of building a digital story. It is the first stage of producing a video when idea sharing takes place and responsibilites are assigned to the students. The first phase is also where sketches and text seem to animatedly evolve. Children at this phase are excited and love to throw in their ideas for the story making. The students usualy get really hyped up and crowd around the teacher, this can be quite a fiasco for the teacher.
Using this type of curriculm in a classroom is great for classroom management and success in digital storytelling. It can also be suggested as language arts curriculm. So students are having fun while leaning.
I think that storyboarding is great to use in a classroom. It is a different way for students to engage with each other. It seems like a fun activity for both the students and teacher. When the story board is done the students have accomplished a movie. I can definently see students getting escited about this type of learning, claiming that they have made a movie and all.