For my storyboard script for the home page video I tried to follow the advice in the article by Nancy Duarte called “Structuring Your Presentation Like a Story”. I tried to follow the general pattern of her recommended path for a persuasive story that convinces the audience to adopt new ways of thinking or new behavior. “By reminding people of the status quo and then revealing the path to a better way, they set up a conflict that needs to be resolved.” I began with a common status quo, reading from a book. Most language arts teachers, especially teachers who have been in the trenches for many years and who might be the ones who might need to hear about my capstone project, will connect to reading from the good ole fashioned print book. Hopefully, this makes a connection to the viewer and sets up a rapport to hearing the conflict, or problem to be solved. Then I set up the conflict of reading and reading instruction being changed by modern technology tools and the digital age mindset. There is a bit of scare tactic at use here. What if reading actually became obsolete? What if in the future books became historical curiosities under glass cases in a museum? Most language arts teachers will not want this to happen. Now that the potential problem is presented, the “what could be” is given next. The final part of the storyline is to imagine a best case scenario where digital tools are used to enhance and bolster reading. This is an invitation to explore the resources of the latest technology and incorporate them into the teaching and learning of reading. It is a call to action, but as Duarte says, it isn’t too burdensome. It is the “hook” into making the audience curious enough to want to explore the notion of transliteracy with me by continuing to read the rest of my Learning Innovation Lab website. My challenge during the storyboard process was imagining video and images to match the script. I have glorious ideas about what could be, but I know I do not have the experience in shooting video to actually accomplish the fabulous ideas of my imagination. I know I have to be realistic about what I can produce. I have basically no experience shooting video. I’ll need a partner to shoot the video if I try to accomplish what I’m envisioning. I know I want to bookend my video with a close up shot of a book (pun intended). I also want the second and second-to-last shot to be of me in the shelves of a library. Following the recommendation that we, the teacher-researchers, be visibly present in some fashion in the video, I want to do the live portion of the video (the narration) from the library. Hmmmm - not sure the library staff will be cool with that! My idea is that the video will cut back and forth from live video of me speaking directly to the audience to still images, screen shots, or action shots of my students. I want the overall effect to be a montage of live & still, playful & serious.
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Nai Saelee
10/31/2017 04:14:56 pm
Hi Nancy,
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james landis
11/1/2017 07:25:35 pm
Nancy,
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