Learning objectives

When you have completed this session, you should be able to

• define term "storyboard",
• create one of the most important documents in planning an e-curriculum.

Storyboard

After the approval of he synopsis may star the detailed design work. The key planning tool for multimedia systems is the soryboard. First of all let's review the work phases, developing tools, and required experts.

Activity	What is it about?	Who?	Tools(software)
Design	Planing the screens. Composition, colors (background, text and navigation elements), font, font size, etc., template pages	graphic artist, teacher	graphic software, mint e.c. CorelDraw, PhotoShop (or manual)
Storyboard compilation	Flowchart discribing the structure of learning units. The items displayed on each screen describing the properties and their interactive steps.	teacher, e-learning method expert	Word processor, a special flow editor. (May be prepared manually!)
Collect and edit media elements	Create pictures, sounds, narrations, video, animations	media editor, teacher	Mediaeditor software
Writing curriculum	Writing the curriculum, practicing, illustrative of tasks and their solutions. Definitions, concepts.	author, teacher(s)	Word processor, HTML editor
Proofreading I.	Professional,linguistic, stylistic control.	expert	Word processor
Integration, implementation [1]	Edit the e-learning unit from the elements based on the storyboar in a frame system.	teacher, mediaeditor, programmer	Multimédia szerzői rendszer (pl. Macromedia Director, Authorware, Adobe Flash)
Data entry	In online frame systems you should upload the LO-s, such as definitions, test etc.	teacher, administrator	frame system
Testing, modification, documentation	Testing the completed e-learning unit in several enviroment (configuration, browser)	teacher, student programmer	Runtime environment (hardware+szoftware)
Proofreading II.	Methodological, pedagogical evaluation.	expert, student	frame system
Modification	Possible variation on a proposal of the reader	programmer, media editor	frame system
Master copy	Create a master Multimedia CD for the reproduction.	programmer, media editor	frame system
Documentation, archiving	Archiving the sources.	teacher, programmer	Word processor

No strict order for the work phases. Some of them can be parallel (e.g. writing curruculum, design plans, collecting elements)

Teachers can create a digital repository from their LO-s. This allows picture, audio, video and more materials can also be used in several lessons.

Storyboard

Storyboards provide a complete picture of what the final program will look like, its a kind of constuction manual. Contains all the information for developing without asking the authors. Annex, or part of the revised textbook developed by the authors contains thee text elements (explanations, tasks, concepts).

Storyboard has the following major elements

There is no standard. The point is to reach a transparent documentation for processing.It's worth making a sketch even if the teacher is a person, author, and programmer. You can use flowcarts for example. More people working together in development, the more important that each item identified clearly.

For larger software developments worth designing a template library, single tables, pre-defined content worksheets.

Storyboard -General description:

• basic information (author's data, topic, unit, structure)
• navigation tools („scroll”, „search”, help, start test)
• describes the orientation marks

Description of construction (building from the elements):

Screen planning

You should describe all different screen structures and their elements, the physical location, role and content of each element. You need a list of media elements for each screens to identify them.

Flowchart

Represents the curriculum structure, progression of the different levels and navigation options.

Screenplans

Graphical presentation of the curriculum ( colour, background, font, navigation elements) Based on the design plan it's worth creating several templates,which significantly simplifies the design and construction as well.

The consturctur needs the exact plan of each screen, place of elements, functions, interactivity). You can use a simple form, where sign the text, image, navigation elements

Form for mediaelements

The annex of screenplans is meadia elemets describing with ther metadata:

Text elements: the whole text (file, path), font, size, type

Graphic elements: name, size, format

Sound, video: lenght, size

Some additional data if needed:

Unit:	Metadata	Screen:
		Element:
description
file
format
size
media
creator
author
copyright
interaction
notes

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