Interactive Boardmaker

1. Interactive Boardmaker Marcia Obukowicz Cesa 9 marciao@newnorth.net http://marciaoat.wikispaces.com/ 715-453-2141

2. Saving Time • Use premade activities • Use premade templates • Make your own template • Make reusable activities • Don’t beat yourself • Too much too fast … is too confusing

3. Premade activities to download

4. To Add Background Scenes to a board: • R click on picture on the board • Send to back or anchor to back important

5. Making a “my category” • Take the pictures you want to add to the symbol library • Put Boardmaker into “silly man” mode • Go to “File” – “import” • Select picture and when it comes in to the symbol making screen select “assign categories” “my categories” and name.

6. Symbolating a song • Author: Dr. Seuss • You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.You really are a heel.You're as cuddly as a cactus,You're as charming as an eel.Mr. Grinch.You're a bad bananaWith a greasy black peel.You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.Your heart's an empty hole.Your brain is full of spiders,You've got garlic in your soul.Mr. Grinch.I wouldn't touch you, with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole.You're a vile one, Mr. Grinch.You have termites in your smile.You have all the tender sweetnessOf a seasick crocodile.Mr. Grinch.Given the choice between the two of youI'd take the seasick crockodile.You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch.You're a nasty, wasty skunk.Your heart is full of unwashed socksYour soul is full of gunk.Mr. Grinch.The three words that best describe you,are, and I quote: "Stink. Stank. Stunk."You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch.You're the king of sinful sots.Your heart's a dead tomato splotWith moldy purple spots,Mr. Grinch.Your soul is an apalling dump heap overflowingwith the most disgraceful assortment of deplorablerubbish imaginable,Mangled up in tangled up knots.You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch.With a nauseaus super-naus.You're a crooked jerky jockeyAnd you drive a crooked horse.Mr. Grinch.You're a three decker saurkraut and toadstoolsandwichWith arsenic sauce. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hDJA0HCf4D8/R3BlKBUSRmI/AAAAAAAAABc/wzbm-j0Cju4/s320/grinch.pngLyrics: Lyrics for Grinch song at http://www.seuss.org/seuss/mr.grinch.html

7. Combining text for one symbol in symbolate • Hold “ALT” key • Highlight text under symbol and type new combo • Release “Alt”

8. Adding voice to symbolate • Double click on symbolate box • Select basic • Choose how you want sound to come back: • Read it • Read and Highlight • Record the song

9. Playing Movies • Create a button • Double Click on button • Select “Cool stuff” • Click “Play Movie” • Remember the movie works in use mode not design mode. Find a symbol to represent your movie. Create a movie in elfyourself.com using the pictures from our group file and save it. http://www.elfyourself.com/

10. Interactive Board DesignConsiderations • Activity Goals? • How many boards are needed? • How many buttons? • Do you want buttons with text only or symbols and pictures as well? • Is feed back needed?

11. U and D modes • D mode is for Design • U mode is for Use. • Activities will not “play” in D mode • Activities can not be changed in U mode

12. Beginning Design • A simple talking book • Make a folder called simple book template • Save each Boardmaker page to it • Animate with “U” and check • Make a new folder copy and name • Select all (ctrl a) • Copy simple book template into the new folder to build the new story

13. Working with Moveable Buttons Example • popcorn counter plus.bm2

14. Moveable Button Tool • Add this tool to your BM toolbar • Dynamic board to • Show • Moveable button tool

15. Creating Moveable Buttons • Click on moveable button tool • Name button click ok • Click and drag button to its “destination” and drop it. • Enter a name for the destination • You can add a speak message to the symbol when it arrives at the correct spot by assigning a speak message action to the destination

16. Snap Back and Clones1) R click on the moveable button2) Select Moveable button properties3)Check the boxes for snap back and clone

17. A simple interactive board

18. Start at the end: Click on button then select change board in the actions

19. Planning board: When linking start at 1 and move up to main Main Board Start here

20. Tip for multiple board viewing • Use tile view to look at the boards you are building for an interactive page.

21. Another Sample ..\..\My Boards\The Mitten

22. Typing Boards • Create a message display button which can receive text and type it from a “board” • Select “Message display” from Dynamic Buttons and a message box will appear • Create typing board, giving each symbols the action of typing text to the message display. • Remember to space after each phrase….

23. Other Features to Explore • Pop up windows ( Add choices without messing up the main board look) • Quick Action buttons ( Board adapted on the fly) • Launcher feature can launch other programs on the computer • Variable buttons that can respond differently depending on…..

24. Online Supports • Boardmaker’s new learning site (Goes live today) http://www.adaptedlearning.com/register.aspx • Downloads/ideas www.mayer-johnson.com • Yahoo User group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boardmaker/ • Florida school user group exchange • Click under workshops and find Boardmaker Ax exchange http://teachers.ocps.net/atteam/

25. Printing Boards • To decrease frustration check print set up • Choose landscape or portrait • Change page perimeters to match