Week 17 Learning Journal - Reflecting on the storyboard process (activity 15)

Reflection on this activity

·      Good fun. The storyboard tool is good to use, feels like a table you can shift things around on in a free way.

·      I liked having to structure my thoughts in this way. It helped me, in particular, to focus initially on ‘learning outcomes’.

The role I played

·      I felt I played my part.

·      I drafted my own storyboard.

·      I reviewed David’s, John’s and my storyboards and tried to synthesize the combined learning points – I think this synthesis is helpful (at least to me!)

·      As part of this I tried to make the learning outcomes quite detailed and specific. This then made it easier to think ‘how would each of these be assessed?’

·      I updated our draft storyboard partly with the increased detail but felt I should check with my team whether they found this useful, I’m aware that I sometimes want to go to a greater level of detail than may be required at certain stages.

What I have learned

·      Again, the value of collaborative processes – e.g. John’s ideas of having learners.

Questions and concerns

·      Of course the ideal storyboard, for me, would be a physical board that I could stick things on and move around – something that I could stand back from and get an intuitive feel for the shape and balance of the whole thing. I like the storyboard tool we are using, but I find it hard to ‘see the whole picture’ on my screen.

·      I’m not sure we’ve incorporated enough of our work to date in arriving at the storyboard – the design principles etc. Some are there – e.g. the phasing and scaffolding. But it has felt as is we’ve pressed on to something new, and the previous work is lodged in the back of our minds rather than directly connected.