Story+Board

Story Board is a exceptional program which can be impletmented in many ways. I am currently doing a unit on the phases of the moon in my Science class. As a supplement to this assignment, we have begun to create a story board of the phases. My example and idea has them drawing each section and then writing a little script for that phase which will later be used to create a story for younger aged kids. This skill, to date, has led to a greater amount of attention to detail and has been a great source of conversation for my students. I created the story linked below to show them what I was looking for. I printed off a generic storyboard and grouped them according to various academic abilities and talents. I then have given them several hours over a series of days to work on this. A Copy of My story which I created as an example of their assignment. []

I think there are many positives to this program. The first pro I see is that it services a wide range of learning styles. This helps a teacher differentiate the assignment along each child's strengths so they can feel successful. A second pro to this is it is not difficult to do nor is it costly. Every child gets to be involved and paper is the only thing you as a teacher would be out. A third and final pro of this program is that left up to the student to choose and decided which allows them to gain in self confidence. If I had to find a con to this program I think it would be that younger children could have problems navigating the site and selecting pictures and properly aligning them to go where they would like them to. Another con would be the fact that the average 4th grader could not complete one of these on their own and this means having numerous children around one small computer area possibly.

This story site would be great to have students write about the endings of stories they have read and would like to see continued. This site would also allow students to take concepts and apply them to something that is not so technical and gain a greater understanding of the ideas.