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Week 4: Video, Video Editing Tools & Accessibility

Activity: Develop Your Own Storyboard and Video

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This module presented several tools related to the significance of developing your instructional story through storyboards.  Choose one of the storyboard templates from the resources or develop one of your own for this activity. You will be story-boarding an instructional solution of your choice using a template to tell your tale.  Your assignment submission must address the following critical elements:

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  1. Description of learning/instructional goal

  2. Single objective tied to goal

  3. Minimum 5 scenes in your storyboard dictating your instructional activity

  4. Published video, 2-4 minutes, with listed license, either copyright your work or apply a Creative Commons license of your choice (publish on YouTube.  You do not need to make your video public to the world, you can select the setting to be visible only to those with the link)

 

Remember the best practices of story-boarding to help organize this week’s activity.  You can also review the videos from the module for additional suggestions on creating a storyboard.  Most importantly, consider the goal, objective, and method of delivery in your design. 

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Next week, we will be adding to your skill set by including accessibility required Closed Captioning, screencasting and animations.

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Post the assignment to the forum using the “Add a Post” option.  If you can copy and paste into the forum please do so. You can also consider alternative document posting via Google document or other resolutions you may have used to post assignment documents. 

Published Work: â€‹

Storyboard:

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  • 12 total slides:   9 lecture slides + 3 exercise slides

  • I’m so used to storyboarding directly into PowerPoint that the Storyboarding process as defined by the templates slowed me down.  On the other hand, I’ve always been both the designer and developer.  If I was working with a separate design team, I can see how storyboarding would be important because it’s too easy to misinterpret something if I had to pass the task on to someone else.

  • I had a hard time working with PowerPoint and Word for the storyboard template.  It seemed too “one-way,” and I could almost see the list of document revisions being a mile long, which would be very cumbersome especially if I were working with a team. My biggest requirement was for collaboration to be possible at the slide level.  The tool that worked best for me was Trello.  I think it fulfills all the requirements of a dynamic storyboarding tool: the ability to collaborate, the ability to share picture files, sound files, and links, the ability to easily duplicate slide content elements, the ability to assign due dates and check off when something is done.  

  • To view my Trello board for this assignment: https://trello.com/b/zIUN4gJX  

Feelings Video Storyboard.png

Learning/ Instructional Goal:

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Given the discussion and handout regarding the NVC process of communication, the feelings handout, and the “victim verb” handout, and the eLearning video, learners will be able to differentiate between feelings and thoughts (as defined by NVC) by 

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  1. Identifying whether a given statement expresses a feeling or a thought, and

  2. Rewording a thought statement into a feeling statement 

 

Single Objective Tied to Goal:

 

Learners identify if the statements being presented are feelings or thoughts (as defined by NVC). 

Digital Media Checklist for the Assignment

Files in this Video: â€‹

Click on this link to go to the interactive exercise

After the exercise, click on the video below to continue

See the Trello storyboard for these videos

Notes:

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This assignment took me longer than I thought.  The snag I ran into was adding a quiz after I decided I wanted interactivity. I knew I wanted to add an interactive element to my video, and when I saw the sample of h5p in one of the readings, I was excited by the thought of being able to add quizzes into my video.  

 

Unfortunately, while h5p has plugins for Wordpress, Drupal and Moodle, it does not have a plugin for Wix, which is where my site is hosted.  I tried to create a page on Wordpress to see if I could use it, then I found out that you can only add plugins if you upgrade to a business account.


There weren’t many options to incorporate a quiz into a YouTube video.  First, I thought I’d use cards and end slides leading to a different file/site but then I found out you couldn’t link to a website URL unless you had a paid subscription :-(.  Then I thought I’d do the whole thing in PowerPoint online—THEN I found out the animation doesn’t work right across different platforms.  Not only that, but there was no way for me to incorporate user-controlled player controls AND automated, synchronized narration/text animation.  Finally I decided that what I was going to do was have the part of the presentation that had synchronized narration/text animation in YouTube, THEN lead people to the quiz on MS PowerPoint, and THEN take them to a second, different YouTube video to close out the presentation.  I learned a lot and appreciated the process, but MAN it killed so much of my time :-).  This couldn’t have been prevented with storyboarding; these were things that I found out after the slides were done.  It was a tech features issue that I didn’t foresee.  I did think that using QR codes to take people from one site to another was pretty cool, but I would need to create a “how-to” tutorial at the beginning of the course because not everyone knows how to scan a QR code.


I did end up using the YouTube end screen feature after all: as a way for users to easily go to the “part 2” presentation after they were done with the quiz :-).  


I also found a “look” that I want to achieve in the future when creating eLearning videos on YouTube.  It combines video and a PowerPoint presentation.

Lessons Learned:

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  • Storyboard: Plan out your slides and interactions, then design it.  But if it’s your first time to add interactions to your video (as it was mine), before you even start thinking about what interactions to use, check which tools are actually available to you first.  It saves you a whole ton of time because you’d already know going in what is actually possible given your circumstances vs. writing out a plan and then trying desperately to find a tool that would match the interaction. 

  • Narration:  Do the narration last.  After I changed my approach, I had to redo the narration which was a pain.

  • YouTube Interactivity Tools:  

    • Poll questions had a 50-character limit, poll choices have a 30-character limit

    • There is a maximum of 5 choices per question

    • When you put cards close to each other, you get a note that says “Cards are more effective when they're not too close to one another. Try spacing them out.”

    • If adding an end screen, consider putting it in the last 20 seconds of the video.  Make sure you leave enough space and time at the end of the video for an end screen. Make sure you consider the video's last 20 seconds when editing it.  Add an extra 20 seconds

    • It was SUPER helpful to have old YouTube videos I’d published in the past that I could use as guinea pigs for what the features can do before I plan out my interactions

  • Publishing to YouTube vs. Publishing to OneDrive:  What I like about using PowerPoint online: You make changes, the link is still correct. With YouTube, you can’t make corrections without republishing the whole thing.

Feelings Handout

Victim Verbs Handout

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Class Discussion Worksheet

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