How to Storyboard for eLearning

September 21, 2022
4 minutes
Tim Slade joined #IDIODC September 21.

Storyboarding is only one part of the instructional design process. But storyboarding is a craft that's been around for a very long time, and used in the design process of many creative endeavors. There are many different techniques for storyboarding as well.  Some IDs will start with pen and paper sketching out their concepts. Others use templates in digital applications. And many designers, who also develop, will storyboard directly inside their authoring tool.

Tim Slade joined us to help everyone get started with storyboarding no matter how you choose to do the work. We talked about learning the process of storyboarding as different from your instructional design work. But also take full advantage of your efforts designing instruction to help in the storyboarding process.

It's a seemingly simple part of your work as an instructional designer, but not everyone creates them as part of their eLearning development process. And if you're new to instructional design, you may have never been taught a simple storyboarding process and why it's important to do the work.

Join us for this conversation filled with process tips and tricks that sure raise the success bar on your training projects.

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About Tim Slade

Having spent the last decade working to help others elevate their eLearning and visual communications content, Tim has been recognized and awarded within the eLearning industry multiple times for his creative and innovative design aesthetics. He is also a regular speaker at international eLearning conferences, co-author of the popular E-Learning Uncovered book series, and author of The eLearning Designer’s Handbook.

You can reach him at his site: timslade.com

You can learn more about Tim on his LinkedIn!

About IDIODC

Instructional Designers in Offices Drinking Coffee (Affectionately known as IDIODC) is a weekly live videocast and podcast that helps instructional designers with pain points and provides best practices and industry insight.  

Every Wednesday morning at 10am ET hosts Brent Schlenker and Chris Van Wingerden guide us through an upbeat and candid conversation with their guests from the eLearning and training world. The live cast session encourages peers to participate in the chat and share their own personal insight! After airing live, you can catch the learning podcast on all major streams such as Spotify, Apple, and Google Play podcasts, as well as on YouTube.

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