By Ken Vogler, Primary Investigator
On Friday, October 18, Dr. Ken Vogler (University of South Carolina) and Ms. Jennifer Gribben (Darlington County School District) presented Using Storyboards in the Classroom at the 2024 South Carolina Council for the Social Studies Conference. The 50-minute presentation detailed a sampling of the first storyboards created by Darlington (SC) and Sumter (SC) School District teachers/grant participants from information they learned from a recent (summer 2024) travel study to Jamestown/Williamsburg and Philadelphia. This travel study was part of a grant titled America: A Story That Must Not Be Forgotten funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s American History and Civics Education National Activities Program.
Storyboards, if you don’t already know, are a visual tool used to plan and sequence a story (like American History) by creating a series of images representing key moments. This presentation was just the first—participants will be giving presentations detailing their Storyboard creations every year of the 3-to-5-year grant. As Ms. Gribben noted, “I felt this presentation will allow the work of the teachers in the grant to help support other teachers and districts across the state and the country. This presentation was a starting point to the sharing and potential impacts that this grant will have on social studies instruction in South Carolina and in other areas across the country.”
Please visit our Storyboard Archive to view all the Storyboards created by participants during this first year.
Event Photos
Click to view the PowerPoint Presentation from the event
