This document provides a storyboard for an interactive textbook covering basic electronics and decibel concepts across 19 screens. It describes each screen's content, including images, text, interactions, videos, and transitions between sections. The textbook covers topics like electricity, circuits, the decibel, referenced decibel scales, and includes reviews, sidebars, and an appendix on mathematics.

1. Multitouch Textbook (iBooks) Storyboard
Section: Description of this section: Textbook Cover Page Screen 1 of 19
Textbook Cover Page
Background: Screen Size: 768 x 1024 Narration:
Faders Image Image: Faders none
Font Color/Type/Size:
Audio:
White/Helvetica/144
intro music - short and
Actual Text: upbeat
the decibel
Title superimposed over image.
Transition to next section: animated book opening to table of contents

2. Multitouch Textbook (iBooks) Storyboard
Section: Description of this section: Table of Contents Screen 2 of 19
Chapter 1
Table of Contents
Background: Screen Size: 1024 x 768
Studio Image Image: Faders
Font Color/Type/Size:
White
Helvetica
Bold & Normal
18 & 48
Actual Text:
Chapter 1
Basic Electronics
What is Electricity?
Simple Circuits
Title superimposed over image.
Screen thumbnails along the bottom.
Transition to next section: section 1

3. Multitouch Textbook (iBooks) Storyboard
Section: Description of this section: What is Electricity? Screen 3 of 19
Section 1
Background: Screen Size: 1024 x 768 Narrated animation or
video:
White Image at top of section start: Faders
Video will explain
Font Color/Type/Size: electricity as the flow of
electrons in a conductor.
Dark Gray/Helvetica/ It will demonstrate both
15 DC and AC current flow.
Content:
Electron flow, current, voltage, AC vs. DC, resistance, impedance
Transition to next section:

4. Multitouch Textbook (iBooks) Storyboard
Section: Description of this section: Measuring Amplitude Screen 4 of 19
Section 1 Sidebar
Background: Screen Size: 1024 x 768 Interactive Image:
interactive image showing
Light blue Image: none a bipolar waveform and
the three common
Font Color/Type/Size: methods of measuring its
amplitude
Dark Gray/Helvetica/ Content:
Italics/15 peak vs. peak-to-peak vs. RMS
Transition to next section:

5. Multitouch Textbook (iBooks) Storyboard
Section: Description of this section: Simple Circuits Screen 5 of 19
Section 2
Background: Screen Size: 1024 x 768 Interactive Image
White Image at top of section start: Faders simple circuit diagram
showing a voltage source,
Font Color/Type/Size: resistor, and conductor
with each part labeled
Dark Gray/Helvetica/
15
Content:
Simple circuit, Ohm’s law, Watt’s law
Transition to next section:

6. Multitouch Textbook (iBooks) Storyboard
Section: Description of this section: Water Tank Analogy Screen 6 of 19
Section 3
Background: Screen Size: 1024 x 768 Narrated animation or
video:
White Image at top of section start: Faders
Alternate explanation of
Font Color/Type/Size: electrical circuits as water
flowing from a water tank
Dark Gray/Helvetica/ tank thru a pipe
15
Content:
electricity flow / water flow analogy
Transition to next section:

7. Multitouch Textbook (iBooks) Storyboard
Section: Description of this section: End of chapter review quiz Screen 7 of 19
Review
Background: Screen Size: 1024 x 768
White
Font Color/Type/Size: Content:
Interactive review quiz as supported by iBooks Author
Dark Gray/Helvetica/
15
Transition to next section:

8. Multitouch Textbook (iBooks) Storyboard
Section: Description of this section: Table of Contents Screen 8 of 19
Chapter 2
Table of Contents
Background: Screen Size: 1024 x 768 Narration:
Studio Image Image: Faders none
Font Color/Type/Size:
Audio:
White
Helvetica none
Bold & Normal
18 & 48
Actual Text:
Chapter 1
The Decibel
Title superimposed over image.
Screen thumbnails along the bottom.
Transition to next section: section 1

9. Multitouch Textbook (iBooks) Storyboard
Section: Description of this section: The Decibel Screen 9 of 19
Section 1
Background: Screen Size: 1024 x 768 Chart:
White Image at top of section start: Meter logarithm chart
Font Color/Type/Size: Video:
Dark Gray/Helvetica/ Video showing how
15 logarithms can compress
huge ranges of numbers.
Content:
What is it? Why is it used? Use of logarithms
Transition to next section:

10. Multitouch Textbook (iBooks) Storyboard
Section: Description of this section: History of the Bel Screen 10 of 19
Section 1 Sidebar
Background: Screen Size: 1024 x 768
Light blue Image: none
Font Color/Type/Size:
Dark Gray/Helvetica/ Content:
Italics/15 History of the Bel
Transition to next section:

11. Multitouch Textbook (iBooks) Storyboard
Section: Description of this section: Decibel equations Screen 11 of 19
Section 2
Background: Screen Size: 1024 x 768 Interactive Image
White Image at top of section start: Meter when to use each form
Font Color/Type/Size:
Audio:
Dark Gray/Helvetica/
15 none
Content:
Decibel equations
Transition to next section:

12. Multitouch Textbook (iBooks) Storyboard
Section: Description of this section: End of chapter review quiz Screen 12 of 19
Review
Background: Screen Size: 1024 x 768
White Image at top of section start:
Font Color/Type/Size:
Dark Gray/Helvetica/ Content:
15 Interactive review quiz as supported by iBooks Author
Transition to next section:

13. Multitouch Textbook (iBooks) Storyboard
Section: Description of this section: Referenced Decibels Screen 13 of 19
Section 3
Background: Screen Size: 1024 x 768 Interactive Image:
White Image at top of section start: Faders Each form of the decibel
equation can be touched
Font Color/Type/Size: to show a more detailed
explanation of what it
Dark Gray/Helvetica/ applies to and when it
15 should be used.
Content:
dBSPL, dBm, dBV, dBu, dBFS
Transition to next section:

14. Multitouch Textbook (iBooks) Storyboard
Section: Description of this section: Weighting Curves Screen 14 of 19
Section 3 Sidebar
Background: Screen Size: 1024 x 768
Audio:
Light blue Interactive Image: SPL weighting curves
Examples of pink noise
Font Color/Type/Size: and music thru each
weighting curve
Dark Gray/Helvetica/ Content:
Italics/15
Transition to next section:

15. Multitouch Textbook (iBooks) Storyboard
Section: Description of this section: End of chapter review quiz Screen 15 of 19
Review
Background: Screen Size: 1024 x 768
White Image at top of section start:
Font Color/Type/Size:
Dark Gray/Helvetica/ Content:
15 Interactive review quiz as supported by iBooks Author
Transition to next section:

16. Multitouch Textbook (iBooks) Storyboard
Section: Description of this section: Appendix A Screen 16 of 19
Appendix A
Background: Screen Size: 1024 x 768 Narration:
Studio Image Image: Math image none
Font Color/Type/Size:
Audio:
White
Helvetica none
Bold & Normal
18 & 48
Actual Text:
Mathematics Review
Title superimposed over image.
Screen thumbnails along the bottom.
Transition to next section: section 1

17. Multitouch Textbook (iBooks) Storyboard
Section: Description of this section: Exponents Screen 17 of 19
Section 1
Background: Screen Size: 1024 x 768 video or narrated
animation:
White Image at top of section start: exponents image
explanation of exponents
Font Color/Type/Size:
Audio:
Dark Gray/Helvetica/ Content:
15 none
Transition to next section:

18. Multitouch Textbook (iBooks) Storyboard
Section: Description of this section: Logarithms Screen 18 of 19
Section 2
Background: Screen Size: 1024 x 768 video or narrated
animation:
White Image at top of section start: logarithm image
explanation of logarithms
Font Color/Type/Size:
Dark Gray/Helvetica/ Content: Audio:
15
none
Transition to next section:

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Section: Description of this section: Glossary Screen 19 of 19
Glossary
Background: Screen Size: 1024 x 768 Interactive Image
White Image: none
Font Color/Type/Size:
Audio:
Dark Gray/Helvetica/ Content:
15 definitions of words used throughout. none
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