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Boardmaker Speaking Dynamically Pro Presented by Amanda Garrett and Bethany Peters
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Boardmaker Plus Speaking Dynamically Pro You can still do 2 dimensional papers For PEC’s, visual schedules ect… Boardmaker SD Pro allows you to bring those papers to life on the screen
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Boardmaker Basics The tool bar The Symbol finder button The database of all the pictures on Boardmaker You can also add pictures to the database The “make a button” button Allows you to make a button anywhere on the screen The Button sprayer tool Allows you to duplicate many buttons The letter/word maker
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Basics continued.. Symbolate tool Great for social stories Color change You can change border, background ect. Frame change 3D frame Moveable button tool Control U- allows use of the interactive screen Control D- Brings the screen back to design mode
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How to drag and drop a picture into Boardmaker Plus SD Pro Open Boardmaker Create a new blank board File New Board Open the symbol finder on the tool bar Drag symbol finder screen onto the board Minimize Boardmaker Open internet browser Go to Google.com Type in desired picture (image) Open “images results” Find desired picture
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Click on the picture a will appear Drag and hover over the minimized Boardmaker tab The tab will enlarge and show you the blank board Drag the picture to the symbol finder and drop it on the picture area A pop up screen will appear and you will need to give the picture a name ( ex. Frog) and assign to a category of your choice ( ex. Animals) Type the item you choice into the symbol finder it should be there Dropping a picture into Boardmaker Plus SD Pro continued…
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Adding sound to a picture Open a new board Make a button Double click on the button- a pop up board will appear You have a few options Speak Message You can type in a message or use the button text Play recorded message Record a new sound ( your voice) Select from MJ sounds – it opens a sound folder and you can choose from the sounds available findsounds.com also has many cool sounds Drag and drop the sound just like you dragged the picture Drop it onto the picture where you want the sound
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Adding a video Double click on button that you want the video to be attached to A pop up screen will appear Click on “Cool Stuff” Click “Play movie” Go to “My Videos” and click on the video you want to put on the board
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Symbolate tool Click on Symbolate button tool Type desired message If you want to change a picture double click on the picture A screen will come up you can add extra picture or browse through the pictures
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Changing Boards When creating a board package you must first make the board you are going to change to… Create the board Be sure to make a change board back button on it Click on button-go to “Board Change” tab Click “change board back”- then click ok Save it in my boards Minimize that board after saving Also Pop-up boards available Pop-up board “pop up” on the same screen and are a smaller board
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Changing Boards continued… Now create another board that will link to the board that you just created Save room on the board for a “next board button” Make a button anywhere on the board You can put a “turn page” symbol on it Click on the “turn page” button- a pop up board will appear Click on the “Board Change” tab Then click on “Change board”- another pop-up will appear Find the board that you saved to connect to the current board Click “ok” then “ok” and it will take you back to your board Push Control U and see if it works You can link as many boards as you want this way
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Adapted Learning Adaptedlearning.com A great resource for downloadable boards Ready to use
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Adapted Learning You must first register Find item you want to download Highlight- it will turn blue Scroll up to the top and click “download” A new screen pops up and click “download” again Save the file under “My boards” If the file is a “zip” file you will have to extract the files Another comes up it gives the option to save or to open Open the file- it then takes you to a new screen On the left it will say “extract files” – click on it Follow the extraction directions After the extraction is finished on the left will be a “move file” tab Click on it and move files to “my boards”
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Sharing Videos and Boards You can also send/receive boards thru email Open BM Go to file Export Individual Board Package Choose a board to send Then save as.zbp file Open your email and send it as an attachment
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Opening emailed boards Double click on the link inside the e-mail It will an open/save pop-up You must first go to client C Then documents and settings Then to users or your name may be on the list (ex. Petersb) Open “yourname” then save it to your designated space- My boards is the easiest Click save-sometimes this take a while
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Cool websites Mediaconverter.org Convert videos, change time ect… Youtube.com If you can catch it open Try downloading and save at home findsounds.com Pre-made materials to download: http://www.ese.ocps.net/ (OCPS Assistive Technology link) http://speakingofspeech.com (materials exchange) http://www.mayer-johnson.com (downloads) http://card.ufl.edu/visual/start.html (practical tips) http://www.do2learm.com (activities) http://aacintervention.com (tips and links) http://www.angelfire.com/pa5/as/boardmakerfiles.html
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