Storyboarding

The article I read was titled, "Storyboarding: A Story from Start to Finish". It defines a storyboard as "a sketch of how to organize a story and a list of its contents". The site includes a description of what a storyboard does, how to build your own and an example of a storyboard.

Storyboarding relates to teaching by providing students a way to sort out their information for a project and is a good tool for following directions. For example, students could use a storyboard for a book review. The first slide could be a picture of the cover of the book, the title, author and the student who is doing the review. The next slide could be a list of characters, the next could be the plot, the summary and finally the ending. The slides could include pictures depicting a scene or some other visual. It would also be good in a Geography class where you could incorporate maps and videos.

In my opinion, storyboards could be a valuable tool in the classroom. It expands the students minds and makes them learn the information in order to put together the project. It could also be used for adults at meetings or trying to explain something new to a group of people.

This is the first time I have heard of storyboarding, I knew about it but did not realize it. I need to do some more research into the topic though because I still do not know much about them and would like to know where else they could be useful.
http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/reporting/starttofinish/storyboarding/