What To Expect
Transcript
In the last Learning Module we looked at the "big picture" as well as the "little picture." In this Learning Module we'll focus on the bridge: storyboarding, a way of breaking down larger units into smaller ones and of showing how the smaller ones relate to each other.
You'll be selecting a smaller segment of the class or topic you're working on for your "sandbox" Learning Module and then listing the elements of that segment (lecture, discussion, reading assignment, and so on). You'll be introduced to the idea of storyboarding by which you can show the relationships among each of the elements in the smaller segment you've selected.
This smaller segment will be what you will use in developing your new Learning Module in your "sandbox" and, if you like, you can begin now by creating some of the Lego pieces or inventory you know you'll be needing (such as sample quizzes, assignments, discussions, Web links, and lecture/presentations). Right now, though, we're still in the preliminary stages of working step by step through a Learning Module creation process and you may want to make revisions as the course progresses.
A subsequent Learning Module will ask you to pair each small element with an appropriate online tool, but that will come later.
This Learning Module also raises the controversial issue of learning (and teaching) styles. We've already touched on the matter in the Begin Here Learning Module; your view on the matter may well influence which elements you include in your storyboard (such as lecture rather than group work or group work rather than lecture).
The next pages introduce you to three interrelated concepts:
- storyboarding
- time shifting
- learning styles
The second writing assignment appears in this Learning Module. It asks you to develop a storyboard for the small segment you've identified and then publish it so it can be shared with others in the class. We won't be directly discussing the actual storyboards you develop but others in the class might be helped by your contribution; if you do have comments on the storyboards feel free to post them in the Learning Cafe. This storyboard (which will be fleshed out in a later Learning Module) will form the basis for the development of your own Learning Module in your course shell "sandbox."
Enjoy!