Storyboard,+Peer+Review+1

Storyboard Peer Review, Part 1 || **Share** your storyboard with your Learning Team for feedback. Storyboards must include personalization, segmentation, integrated text and graphics, and a worked example.
 * **Individual**
 * Provide** each team member with constructive feedback to improve the effectiveness of the storyboard components.
 * Submit** a summary of the constructive feedback you provided to your team members. ||

Here is myStoryboard, Part 1:

Dana, I love how you added narration to your storyboard. The narration models think aloud well. You segmented your storyboard into the different steps of how to create a PowerPoint presentation. You effectively used a pedagogical agent and conversational tone. You incorporated links in your storyboard to provide worked examples so the learner can see what to click on or how to mainpulate the object. I think you did a great job. I am going to use yours to help me improve mine. :) -Mary Ann

Dana,

I enjoyed reading through and looking at the illustrations that you used. The storyboard shows the steps clearly and the narration helps the reader to follow the directions to fulfill the task. Using the girl as a model and having her be the character that is performing the task was great. The learner can personalize this lesson and put themselves in the place of the character and ask themselves the same questions the character has. The screencasts allow the learner the learner to see exactly what the screen will look like and also you provided the learner an opportunity to try out and get some extra help with the steps. Good job! Joyce

Dana, I really like your storyboard. Segmentation, personalization, and pretraining are applied throughout the presentation and offer effective help to the learner. Your graphics are very related to the topic and narration makes it easier to understand. You are trying to make use of all the components that we have been learning about through the course, adding some others of your own, and I believe the final product will be excellent. Niurka

Here is my attempt at a storyboard. Joyce's storyboard.

Joyce,

I like that your storyboard is full of examples; this will definitely help the kids to distinguish between fiction and nonfiction. Also, it’s good that you included immediate practice and feedback to your students.

On your second slide, the one that measures students’ prior knowledge on the subject, are you going to have some kind of transition or entrance for the question & question answer after the students have read through the example?

One more question- do all of your examples have to be typed out? Can some of them include a graphic with audio narration?

Dana Thanks Dana for the feedback. I was so unsure what I was doing and I tried to get close to what was asked. I have no idea how to add sound but thanks again for the help and feedback. I think that would be a great idea to add a graphic with audio narration and I need to come up with some type of transition to the question and answer segment. Joyce. Joyce, Your storyboard includes pretraining on the difference between fiction and nonfiction. This is a difficult skill for my second graders and takes a great deal of practice. You provide multiple passages for the students to practice and provide them with immediate feedback. Are you going to change the color of the background? I think adding narration would enhance this great storyboard. It will allow you an opportunity to have a think aloud. -Mary Ann

Joyce, I enjoyed your storyboard and I believe that you are offering specific and clear examples. Your graphics are relevant and the slides are simple and concise. You are pretraining your students and as a narrator you are using personalization. Your use of segmenting princple is also evident by using one genre at a time. One suggestion would be to recheck if the font for the last two slides (the ones with the last two passages) is big enough for the students to see it. I am sure that the students will end up with a clear understanding of the difference between fiction and non-fiction. Way to go!

Niurka

Here is Part 1 of Mary Ann's Storyboard. I am unsure how to add narration to my storyboard. How would I go about doing this? I look forward to any advice or feedback on how to enhance my storyboard.

Mary Ann,

All you really have to do to add sound is go to Insert, Sound & Music, Record Sound. [|Click here to see a quick video on inserting sound to your PowerPoint.]



I really like that you include a review of math terms and things that you hope would be prior knowledge (i.e. tens, ones, sum). This is a good use of pre-training.

Suggestion- Why don’t you provide a couple more examples of re-grouping before presenting the strategy of “drawing a picture”? That way you have clear segmentation between the two (yet related) concepts. Plus, your kids will already have additional worked examples.

Dana Thank you for the suggestions Dana. I will go back to add more examples of regrouping. I will also try to add some narration to the storyboard. I will have to add this while my children are sleeping so they will not be heard in the background. :) Mary Ann,  I love teaching younger kids and I love your story board. Could you use some type of character or person to do the narration part? I like the way you review the words and skills that were pretaught. You are using segmentation to teach new words and skills.The thinking bubbles are a great tool to have the students personalize the information and have them thinking to themselves about what they should do. Love it!!! Joyce

Mary Ann, I have to tell you that I felt like one of your students with what you have so far for your storyboard. It is amazing!! It is child friendly and you are using the content of our course with vocabulary, the way to activate prior knowledge and your personalization in the narration. I love the backgroung color of the slides. My humble suggestion will be that if your are going to add some other feautures, to do it in a simple manner, so you can keep your extraordinary work simple and relevant. I tell you that because I find it so clear and to the point that the same style would keep it as wonderful as it is. I like the idea from our readings that less is more and you are nailing your concept in a very firm and friendly manner. Good job!!! Niurka

Thank you team for the suggestions. I will try my best to implement your feedback as I am working on my storyboard. I still feel like I am blindly creating my storyboard, but your storyboards and feedback are giving me guidance. -Mary Ann

Niurka's Storyboard on how to make flan: Thanks Dana for your wonderful help and your patience with me. This is my storyboard. The instructor told me that my last slide had to much text written on it, so I will follow her suggestions and try to figure out how to record my voice to have the audio instead of all the text. I will see if I can add some other slides to advance. I will get in the computer toninght around 9:00 P.M. EST. Thanks for everything dear team!!!! Love, Niurka

Niurka, I love your introductory slide! It is very welcoming. You have the personalization principal down!

Check out the link that I posted above for Joyce; it will show you one way to record audio in your PowerPoint.

Suggestion- Can you add animation to your second & third slides so that the different cooking utensils and ingredients come in at the precise moment that the audio mentions them?

I agree with the professor about your fourth slide having too much on it. Maybe you could break this down into two or even three slides with text & audio. I think that the pictures and the hints that you’ve included with the directions are extremely hepful!!!

Don’t forget to delete the fifth slide that you have. It’s about the parts of a bird. This is probably just a left-over slide from the example that the professor gave us. Haha. No worries!!!

Dana

Niurka, I have never heard of flan. Thank you for introducing it to me. I love your opening slide. It is friendly and you use the visbile author for your personalization principle. It allows me to feel connected with you on this cooking adventure. Your second slide allows us to see the cooking items needed and explains what they are. This is a pretraining slide. Slide Four contains a great deal of information. Is there any way to breakdown some of the information or add audio? A struggling or slow reader may find this overwhelming. -Mary Ann Niurka, Love the welcome slide, makes me want to learn to cook the flan. You used slides to show pretraining and segmenting. As the learner I feel that I am ready to follow you to preparing this recipe because now I know exactly what I need to get started. Could you possibly take slide 4 and have the steps broken down and have some animation or illustrations and sounds to help the learner feel more connected during this process.? I love caramel so anything with caramel sounds good to me and I am ready to move on to next steps for preparing the flan. Joyce

Dear ladies, Thanks for your suggestions. I appreciate the time you took to watch and review my storyboard. I am learning from you all because you have offered quality advises. Technology is not my forte, but the desire to assist one another and your genuine derire to help have given me the eagerness to continue learning and to relay on you to enhance my technology learning skills. Thanks for everything. Sincerely, Niurka