Development

=__Development__=

Click on the link below to view our Storyboard as a .pdf file.

====In developing our storyboard, we decided to first create a Power Point slide for each book page. We then took a screen shot of the slide and inserted that and the other detailed information about the page into our storyboard template. ==== ====In creating the slides, we incorporated some of what we know about visual design, as well as considerations for UDL. According to “Four Steps for Better Power Point Presentations” and Begbie’s “Powerful, Pointed Presentations”, presentations should not use a template. We did not use a template for our slides. Also, we chose Arial as our font because it is a Sans Serif font that is easier for most people to read. We choose a solid color dark background with white font, again because it is easier to read. ==== ====According to Schnotz’s Integrated Model of Text and Picture Comprehension, people learn better from words and pictures than from words alone. We tried to include pictures on most of our book pages. We used photographs, rather than clip art, because our target learners are adults. Our Bookbuilder 'coach' is more like a Clip Art, but we designed our own coach because we felt that 'Dr. Hootman' was better suited to our learners. The dual channel assumption tells us that learning is enhanced when more senses are involved. We therefore included narration on many of our pages. ==== ====This also follows the precepts of Mayer’s theory, which contends that humans process information through both auditory and visual channels. Mayer suggests that effective multimedia presentations should consist of both words and pictures and that the narration should not just repeat the text. We intend for our narration to explain and elaborate the points. ==== ====According to one of Gestalt’s Principles of Perception called uniform connectedness, “elements that share uniform visual characteristics are perceived as being more related than elements with disparate visual characteristics.” ==== ====For this reason, we decided to be consistent in how we placed the pictures on the slides. They are placed in the middle of the page with text below, or if they were more vertical, they are on the left side with the text beside them. ====  Analysis | Design | Development | Implementation | Evaluation | References