An article in the e-Learning section of The Guardian 15th November covers the Interactive Storyboards that I’ve been developing further recently.
Andrew Field, head of ICT and a history teacher at Neale-Wade community college in Cambridgeshire, gave a virtual presentation on his interactive storyboard, available on his website at www.schoolhistory.co.uk. It uses boxes that students can fill with provided graphics plus their own text, so minimising time wasted on playing with fonts and other details that students are apt to concentrate on, Field says.
“We need to create things that can be put together easily by teachers and that add benefit in class. With my interactive storyboard, students are given a scaffold which they can structure in the way they want to in terms of historical interpretation, but which limits the amount of ICT messing around they can do.”
It is excellent that they have been mentioned, although unfortunate that the part that I’m quoted is something that I’ve never actually said and it makes me sound both rather arrogant and a bit of a dimwit. What’s innacurate there then? 
Well - what I’d actually said is that teachers need to strive to explore ICT-based solutions that can be easily used and have a real added value. In my presentation at the time I was trying to explain that effective e-Learning materials must help students achieve at a higher level that they would have been able without the use of ICT. My interactive storyboards are my efforts towards such a goal - trying to extend the use of ICT beyond closed questions and suchlike - extending the use of ICT into much more open-ended and thus higher level tasks. They have been created to encourage students to focus on content and interpretation rather than style and design.
Anyway, it was good to be mentioned and hopefully some of these concepts will be explored by other teachers as a consequence. I wish the E-Help project every success. I hope it is able to achieve the laudable goals that it has set out.
For more information see:
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showforum=213
http://www.historiasiglo20.org/EHELP/index-en.htm
http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupHomepage.asp?GroupID=24439