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First-Time Storyboarding

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This week’s blog entry features reflections on their experiences as first-time storyboarders. . My only prior storyboarding experience comes from the creation of a TV commercial script. Finished storyboards and completed modules from Artisan’s previous courses for the same client provided both examples and templates.

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The Artisan E-Learning Storyboard

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The Artisan E-Learning team recently had a great discussion about best practices with Storyboarding. Our biggest discussion item was what storyboard template we would use as the Artisan standard for all projects. We had all used several different storyboard designs in the past and had some special needs for our universal storyboard.

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How to Write Your First E-Learning Storyboard

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What struggles did you face when writing your very first e-learning storyboard? Collecting and organizing your content into a development-ready storyboard can be one of the most difficult tasks during the design process. How to Write Your First E-Learning Storyboard. Three Things to Include in Your E-Learning Storyboard.

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Three Things to Include in Your E-Learning Storyboard

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Just like a script for a movie, an e-learning storyboard is a document that outlines everything from on-screen text and graphics to the narration text and how the interactions will work. . Here at Artisan E-learning , we almost always use a written storyboard (which you can download here ), created in Microsoft Word.

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One Simple Trick for Writing Your E-Learning Storyboards Faster

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Several years ago, I did a post about how you can write storyboards faster if you type faster (to the tune of saving several weeks per year!). It may take a few minutes to set everything up, but you’ll probably make all that time back the very next time you sit down to write storyboards.

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What One Thing…?

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So if I pick reviewing storyboards as my biggest priority and do that first, the storyboards are reviewed. Apply this to my storyboard review task. Here are some of the tasks we’ve tackled since that meeting: Created a style guide for storyboard writers. Revised our storyboard template. But that’s it.

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Estimating E-Learning Course Length

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For us, the best place to do that is after the first draft of the storyboards. Then we analyzed the storyboards for number of slides, words in the narration, and words in the entire storyboard to come up with some averages. One hour of content contained, on average: 8680 storyboard words. Here’s what we found.