The storyboard I used as a general outline is:
Digital storytelling can be used to demonstrate concepts that can be videoed, but not easily duplicated in the classroom - how angles are used in building construction, or showing the curvature of the earth when talking about arcs. The storytelling can also be used to explain concepts - such as in my video - with voiceovers, music, video, graphics, and web resources all compiled in one presentation to provide images along with the standard textual representations (testbooks) that are currently the primary source of information.
It was not easy showing this to a peer, since it was a first effort on a program that I haven't used before.
She did like the use of the architectural drawings to illustrate the concepts. She thought that the voice comments were a lot more effective that the written comments - you can focus on the slide and not have to read the comment, then the slide. She also thought that both my delivery and the presentation could be a little more animated. Having said that, in general, her comments were positive (surprised me, I can think of a lot more things that I could add, but the program is limited in what one can do with it). This program gets more interesting if you can upload animated videos and go from there.
I love the concept and have written down ideas for use with Camtasia,the Brightlink and recording the lesson as I teach it in the classroom - coming soon to my Blackboard site. I can envision absent students viewing the entire class and even those students who were there going back and reviewing concepts/lessons.
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