Creative Process, Teaching, Learning Tell your story in bite-sized pieces. A storyboard is a planning tool that describes a narrative visually, in blocks or cells. A graphic novel is a long storyboard. Once a tool used only by filmmakers, today business folk use them to pitch product ideas and educators use them to summarize a text.  Richard Byrne has collected resources that simplify the process. He’s got a history of storyboards, online tools that provide pre-made, drop-and-drag artwork, and videos that show how to make templates that use Google Slides or Powerpoint to break your story into easy to understand pieces. Article: How and Why Students Should Make Storyboards