Storyboarding is an important part of creating multimedia presentations. Participants will learn how to plan a storyboard, create five slides, and save their slides in a special folder.
Participants will:
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Using a storyboard the participants will develop a plan for five slides. Slide one will be a solid colored slide. Slide two will include a border and the title "All About Me." Slides three and four will tell something about the participant, and slide five will be another solid colored slide. Participants will use a storyboard to fulfill the criteria for each slide. (The storyboard will be handed out in the exploration session or participants can use 5 x 7 cards to storyboard their project.)
The participants will create, and save five slides to a folder on their desktop.
1. Storyboard: a storyboard is a visual plan of your project. Planning a project on paper before working at the computer can save time and frustration. A separate card or paper for each slide will help organize and prepare students for production on the computer. A storyboard should include the layout, text, graphics or drawn images, and sounds that are going to be included on the slide. How much detail required is up to the assigning teacher. It is also helpful to assign which elements you would like to see on each slide in advance. For example, a teacher might ask for text supported by a hand drawn images, borders, recorded voice, and a title card. (You might also want to require a bibliography for older students.)
Now that you are familiar with the
concept of a storyboard, take a few minutes and create a storyboard
for your slide show. Use the following criteria when planning your
storyboard. Remember you are doing this on 5 x 7 cards or storyboard
paper.
 | Plan two slides of solid color. They may be the same color or
different colors. Hint: use your paint bucket. These slides will
be used at the beginning and end of your slide show.
| Next, plan a title slide with the words "All About Me." Add
decorations and a border that reflect your personality.
| Plan two more slides that tell about yourself. Each slide must
include a border, graphics, and text. (Go to the GOODIES menu and
select "Type Text" to add text.) These might include your family
or your favorite things.
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2. Kid Pix Slideshow prefers all slides to be housed in one location. It is very easy to create a special folder and then save all your slides into that folder. You can later save the completed slide show in the same folder.
To create a folder for your slides,
make sure your computer desktop is empty. (Close all windows.) Go
to the File Menu and select "New Folder." A new folder will appear on
your desktop and you can name it. If the "untitled" on the folder is
not highlighted, click on the word "untitled" one time and it will
highlight. Type the name of your project to create a new folder name.
You will save all your slides and your slide show in the folder and
then drag it to a final location. (This is okay as long as all the
slides and the slide show stay in the folder.)
3.
Saving: you are
now ready to open Kid Pix and create the first slide using the tools
you learned in the first section of this module.
When you have completed the first
solid colored slide go to the FILE Menu and drag down to "Save."
This will bring up a dialog box that asks you where you want to save
your slide and what to call it. First, give your slide a name. Call
it (color) slide. Next, click on the "Desktop" button. You
should see your folder in the box above where you named your slide.
Click on the folder to select it and then click on the "Open" button.
The Save button should then be highlighted and you can click on it
to save your slide. You will not have to find your folder next time.
It should appear at the top of the box. You are now ready to try
another slide.
Go to the FILE menu and select
"New." You should see a blank slide. Create your second solid
colored slide. Go to the FILE menu and select "Save." Name this
(color) slide. This will be your last slide. You are now
ready to create your title slide.
Once again go to the FILE menu and select "New." You will create your title slide as planned on your storyboard. When your slide is complete save it as 'Title Slide."
Go to the FILE menu and select
"New." Complete slides four and save. Repeat the process for the
final slide. You should have completed and saved five slides.
Quit Kid Pix (FILE menu, "Quit") and double click on the folder you created on your desktop to see that your slides are located within. If they are not inside you must find them and drag them into the folder. You might try looking inside the Kid Pix folder on your hard drive. (If you know how to use the Finder, you could also use that feature to find the missing slides.)
You have now completed Part Two of
the Kid Pix Exploration Module.
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