Thursday, August 17, 2006
Storyboard software
Meeting this morning and all the inevitable catch-ups after meant that didn't get started until around 1.30 today...then got bogged down with trying to hunt down some news stories for the portal. Never mind, I did get some time to look at some story board software.
I'm not entirely certain whether anyone creating elearning content would ever want or need to go to the expense of using storyboarding software, but if you can stretch to around £150.00, it really does bring your ideas to life. You can create scenes and scenarios, customise characters and basically do a mock-up of how you want the module to play out. It would possibly be more useful to someone planning some roleplay scenarios, but I could see a use for it in content creation. There's something about holding a pencil in your hand though, that gets the imagination flowing...perhaps I'm getting old. I'll post the links to the software once i have a few to compare...watch this space
I'm not entirely certain whether anyone creating elearning content would ever want or need to go to the expense of using storyboarding software, but if you can stretch to around £150.00, it really does bring your ideas to life. You can create scenes and scenarios, customise characters and basically do a mock-up of how you want the module to play out. It would possibly be more useful to someone planning some roleplay scenarios, but I could see a use for it in content creation. There's something about holding a pencil in your hand though, that gets the imagination flowing...perhaps I'm getting old. I'll post the links to the software once i have a few to compare...watch this space
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As a long standing developer of e-learning content Virtual College have used two forms of "Storyboading" over the years (storyboarding is what we do with the raw content material before it is passed to the e-learning development team to turn into a Flash module). We have used Word and PowerPoint. We now use PowerPoint exclusively and have developed our own storyboarding template. The advantages are that it enables you to see how the screen will be laid out eg the split between text and graphics, where characters may appear and what colour schemes might be used. We often pass the PowerPoint storyboard on to clients so that they can comment and approve before it goes into development (avoiding costly amends later.
Will be interesting to see what "custom" software offers that our PowerPoint template doesn't.
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Will be interesting to see what "custom" software offers that our PowerPoint template doesn't.
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