Boardmaker Speaking

Dynamically Pro

Presented by Amanda Garrett and Bethany Peters

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

Boardmaker BasicsThe 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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

Adapted Learning Adaptedlearning.com A great resource for downloadable boards Ready to use

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”

Sharing Videos and BoardsYou 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

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

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