Storyboard,+Final+Review(part+IV)

Niurka's Storyboard part IV

Niurka, The storyboard is amazing! I really enjoyed reading and watching the preparation of the flan. The details and steps you provided, the graphics, the audio, and the personalization techniques were just wonderful. I read through the storyboard notes that you prepared with each slide and you gave a very detailed description of what each slide was being used for and what details were included to assist the learner. The graphics were an excellent depiction of materials needed and what the flan would like during it various stages of preparation. I am very impressed with the presentation and feel that a learner could definitely go to the storyboard and use it to prepare the "flan." You also made available an assessment at the end where the group can work collaboratively to assess their knowledge. I am looking forward to having a chance to try to prepare the flan. Thanks again for all you and the other members of our team have done. Great job!!! Joyce

Niurka,

I was able to fiddle around with your slide animations on my school-issues Dell laptop. Here is my second attempt at adjusting the animations on the second slide. If this still doesn't work, I'm out of ideas. Lo siento :(

Overall, I think your storyboard is phenomenal. As I mentioned before, it certainly makes me hungry, and I feel that I can follow your instructions to make my own flan. You have applied the principles that we learned throughout the course, including the principles of e-learning (i.e. pre-training, segmenting, etc.) and also the multimedia principles (graphics, audio, and animations). It was amazing to see your storyboard develop over the past several weeks, and you can definitely see an increase in both your own confidence and PowerPoint computer skills. I think that you should be very proud of your work, and I suggest that you share it with more than just our learning team. You can even make your own wiki for friends, family, and/or co-workers to share their own knowledge. By the way, if you do make your own wiki to discuss cooking tips/recipes, please invite me to join because I need all of the help that I can get in the kitchen!!!

Also, I really think you made great use of your practice exercises and collaboartive activities. Plus, the timing was perfect; you even said, "While our dessert gets ready..." Your practice exercises and discussion questions really give your audience the chance to recall the necessary ingredients and also contemplate possible issue that may arise in the preparation of the flan. By the way, what are the answers to your discussion questions?

While I was playing around with the animations in your slide, I made one change to the animations on slide number 9. Initially, the animations that you had on each of the yellow boxes was an entrance animation- meaning the answers to your questions were showing and then the yellow box covered them up. I changed your animations to exit animations so that the answers to the qusetions would initially be covered and then would "exit" to reveal the answer. Is this what you were aiming for?

Dana

Niurka, You did a fantastic job incorporating the e-learning principles into your storyboard. You utilized the personalization principle well. There was a visible author who provided personal insight and advice. The narration was friendly and held a conversational tone. You provided pretraining in the first few slides to ensure that the learner knew the kitchen tools and ingredients needed. You segmented your storyboard. I have never cooked flan before. I feel that I could follow your worked example and narration to successfully make this treat for my friends and family. Your graphics enhanced the lesson and allowed me to see what each stage should look like. This series of still photos will allow me to stay on track. Your text and graphics work hand-on-hand to provide a great multimedia presentation. You did not include any decorative graphics that distract the learner or take away from the goal of your storyboard.

You practice activities allow the learner to review about the ingredients that are needed. The learners are able to remove the yellow boxes to see whether they are correct or not. You promoted critical thinking skills when you asked the learners to response to cooking situations. It is vital to know what to do if certain cooking situations occur. ~Mary Ann

Hey Ladies, I am trying to upload my final storyboard,but it says it is too large. I tried loading it in parts but that's not working either. I am so confused. I will keep trying today. Joyce

Joyce Storyboard

I was viewing your storyboard to work on my question for the Final Storyboard Review. There is a chunk of your storyboard missing and the introduction slide is also the last slide. I see that you said you are having trouble. Is everything okay now? ~Mary Ann Mary Ann, I am sorry but I can't seem to load the final storyboard. I am working on it now. Forgive me for holding you up!!!! Joyce

Ladies, I am so sorry this took me so long. Thanks for your patience! Joyce

Joyce, You are not holding me up at all. I am glad that we were able to figure it out. I know that you put a great deal of time into your storyboard. I have been waiting to see what they all look like. :) Mary Ann

Joyce, I believe that your storyboard is very detailed and well elaborated. Your introductory part provides excellent worked examples for each genre as well as precise definitions of each one of them. Your slides are clear, have relevant graphics, and show contiguity principle in an excellent manner. I can hear your narration clearly. Your voice helps to make the narration more enjoyable because your tone of voice offers relaxation which also help with personalization to create a non-threatening enviroment during the presentation.. You have used segmentation in a way that will definitely assist your students to understand the difference between a real story and a made up one.You have added practice throughout the entire lesson, which is a real benefit for your student to grasp the concepts. The opportunity for practice that you provide for your student have incorporated immediate feedback as well. I have seen a significant pattern in your storyboard and that is: clear instruction-examples-practice-feedback. The choices to offer your examples are relevant to the topic as well as informative. Like in some of my other comments, I have to say that your narration of the on-screen text can be very helpful for ESOL students and struggle readers, so they do not feel lost at the time that the stories are read. Wonderful job! Niurka

Joyce,

I love that your storyboard has so many worked examples and practice opportunities from start to finish. Even your initial slide that measures students' prior knowledge has a great example. Plus, you definitely do a fantastic job of pre-training and segmenting your lesson. Your pre-training includes clear definitions of fiction and nonfiction in slides 3 and 7, and you've segemented your lesson into examples of fiction and examples of nonfiction. Plus, the stories that you've chosen to use as examples are age-appropriate and interesting to students; this shows your use of the personalization principle.

Also, nice use of the multimedia principles with graphics and audio. I was able to hear your audio on all of the slides except for the very first one. This is the message that my computer gives me when I try to listen to the audio on slide 1: "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. If the file is on another computer, verify that you are connected to the network. If you typed a path, verify that it is correct. If the problem persists, the server might not be available." By any chance, was your first audio clip on the introductory slide from an external audio source, like itunes or some other source that was not recorded directly in PowerPoint? If this audio is from an external source, you'll have to create a folder that includes both your storyboard and the audio file, and then send the entire thing to the professor for your final storyboard submission. Of course, if this audio file was not from an external file, just ignore what I'm saying all together. Haha.

As mentioned already,one of the major strengths of your storyboard is that you provide many examples,practice opportunities, and feedback. Some of this feedback comes up too soon though. On a couple slides, I did not get through reading the entire story sample before you provided the answer/feedback. Mary Ann's storyboard has a few slides where she has two different audio files on one slide. This gives her students ample time to work through a problem before they can select to hear the feedback. Maybe this model would be a better choice for your examples since some of your story selections take a minute or two to completely read through.

Nice job with your storyboard. I hope you get the chance to either use this in your classroom or post it on your school website for students and parents to review!!!

Dana

Mary Ann's Final Storyboard



Mary Ann,

I would like to commend you on a job well done! The storyboard takes a task that can be difficult to grasp and allows the learner to move from step to step to learn the task. You have provided the learner an opportunity to listen and follow and then an opportunity to do the steps themselves with your feedback. The graphics and drawings you use allow the learner to copy or create their diagrams so that they can visualize exactly what they need to do. I really like the way you highlighted in red the portions that they would need to remember and showed them a way to solve the problem with pictures if they needed. Way to go! I think any student would be able to follow the steps using the audio and graphics and succeed at mastering the task. They can move through the slides at their own pace or along with you and they can go back and forth to ensure that they have the steps down before moving ahead. This is a task that many of my students are still having difficultty with and I would love to use your storyboard to allow them an opportunity to work individually or with a partner to master this skill. Again I say, great job and you are wonderful!!!! Joyce

Mary Ann, You have done an amazing job on your storyboard!. I have shared with you since the first time that I saw what you were creating how detailed and chil-friendly (on narration, color choice, and instructional purposes) your work is. The skill that you chose is a skill that requires big use of working memory, and you have explained all the steps and terms included in the skill with clarity, precision, and without overloading cognitive channels. You have applied the knowledge that have been taught throughout the content of the course (multimedia, personalization, contiguity, segmentation principles as well as worked example and practice). Your students are going to enjoy the product that you will offer them. In your storyboard, you used pretraining to activate your students' prior knowledge on the topic which is a way to ease the introductory part of the lesson. You also have offered your students a wonderful piece of assessment. You began by modeling through pretraining, segmentation, and worked examples, and you ended with practice that included immediate feedback. The practice in your storyboard makes perfect use of faded worked example by giving control to the learners little by little without leaving them totally on their own without assistance or feedback. Niurka

Mary Ann,

Your storyboard looks fantastic!!! I think that all of your graphics and animations are very impressive. Plus, this time when I watched your storyboard in the the full-size slide show mode, the audio was timed extremely well with the animations. How did you get these things in sync? Did you rehearse the timings?

When I watched your storyboard, I did not feel confused at all about the steps that you were taking because you did a great job with pre-training and segmenting. Actually, I'd love to pass your storyboard on to some of the elementary teachers in my building. Of course, I would give you due credit if you allow me to do this.

Another thing I was to point out is that you provide ample practice opportunities in your storyboard. You followed the model of I do, we do, you to. That is, you modeled the steps for the students, gave the class a chance to follow the steps with you, and then gave them individual practice. Plus, I really liked that you incorporated feedback audio into your slides. If you students are viewing this storyboard without you or your classmates present, they can choose whether or not to listen to this feedback. Some students who are faster learners may skip right over it. But, the students who need extra help have this feedback in place if they need it.

Well done!!!

Dana

Hey team,

Here are the 4 portions of my storyboard. I had to break it up in order to upload the file. Right now I have my slide show set up with action buttons so that you'll be able to move from one slide to the next with forward and backwards arrows built in to the presentation. You should also be able to click on a menu button at any time to go back to the list of topics. HOWEVER... the menu will not work AT ALL unless all of the slides are copied & pasted into one PowerPoint document. Splitting up our storyboards has been a real pain in the butt, but hopefully all of the technical aspects will still work ever after they're been split up and then pieced back together. Please let me know if something isn't working for you.

Dana



Dana, I love your creativity.You have created a storyboard with amazing instructional and technological elements, and wonderful use of the course material. Your technology skills have allowed you to incorporate relevant graphics and texts as well as very elaborated and helpful worked examples. Your narration sounds clear and help with personalization because of your voice tone and self-questioning techniques used by pedagogical agents. The self-questioning shows application of the personalization principle which I believe can help your students to lose some fear by understanding self-questioning as a normal behavior when a person is learning a new skill. Your lesson is very detailed because you are teaching your students how to create a product that requires digital dexterity. The links added to some of the slides will offer your students additional practice, visual aide, and confidence with computer skills. The panic attack slide gives the presentation a touch of humor which is important while learning takes place. You also offered practice and collaboration (by having students working with a partner) at the end of the presentation as well as the opportunity to go back and recheck any of the skills that you taught during the lesson. Bravo! Niurka

PS. I could not enjoy playing with the menu because I did not place all the slides in one entire presentation :-(

Dana, Your storyboard is informative and well laid out. I like your use of the pedagogical agents. You used the girl in the second slide and an emoticon in the other slides. Even when the pedagogical agents were not on the screen, I felt that they were still present. Your audio narrations carried a conversational tone that allowed me to feel relaxed and hear the internal dialogue of your pedagogical agent. You segmented your storyboard to allow the learner to see the steps of how to edit a PowerPoint. Your screen clips and links are a vital tool for the learner. The learner has a great deal of control in your storyboard. Your storyboard has a Menu that allows the learner to go to a specific area of concern. There are also Forward and Backward buttons so the learner can work at her own pace. You used navigational effectively throughout your whole storyboard.

Your graphics greatly enhanced your text. Your graphics were relevant to the lesson and of appropriate size and nature. You followed the redundancy principle. You did not narrate what was written in text on the slides. Your storyboard is simple, yet very effective in conveying your message. Great Job! ~Mary Ann

Dana,

i really enjoyed working through the storyboard. It was full of graphics, annimations, and audio that will help the learner to master the task. The graphics grab your attention and the sound is clear. The lesson is segmented and allows the learner to move from one topic to another or choose the topic they want to work on. Using a character in each slide allows the learner to personalize the lesson because they can put themselves in the place of the character and do each task. Great job in using podcasts to help the learner. This is available for the learner at a later date. You have done a terrific job and I am always amazed at your technology expertise.

Joyce

Dana, This note is related to he questions that you asked me about the discussion questions on my storyboard. I tried to present my learners with different situstions and ask some open-ended question that do not necessary require a specific or particular answer. I believe that in the cases that I presented, learners can come up with different answers. The idea was try to promote critical thinking and collaboration and not only regurgitation of knowledge. Thanks for asking about that :-) Niurka

PS. I checked the animations that you were working on to help me on my storyboard, but they did not work at all. You were very nice and helpful to offer me your time and work. I really appreciate it. Thanks a bunch.