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Today's tip comes from Dr. Thomas Welsh, professor, consultant and longtime DSA Associate.
In days-gone-by, instructional designers developing training for CBT, web-based training, and other E-Learning projects often used an effective, yet quite cumbersome method of specifying the content for their courses. The interactive storyboard, or detailed design document, was used to spell out in detail the output for every screen in a course as well as all possibilities for learner input. This was done to allow for exhaustive content review and approval prior to the expensive, time-consuming programming process.
Times have changed. While exhaustive storyboarding and detailed design is still used in large budget – long timeline projects, most training projects do not have the budget or development cycle to allow for this type of pre-production. Luckily, there is another storyboarding technique that has several advantages over the old method.
How it Works
All you need is a screen image capture tool, such as SnagIt, an image editing tool, such as Photoshop, and MSWord. Here are the steps for really fast storyboarding:
Now the writing can begin. As instructional designers generate the content in MSWORD, they will see the E-learning template in the background. In addition, MSWORD will automatically wrap to the next page/screen when available space on the current page/screen is exhausted.
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