HANDS ON BOARDMAKER PLUS:
TURNING BOARDMAKER INTO A STUDENT TOOL!
Presenter(s)
Lisa Petit
Mayer-Johnson, LLC
1237 Devonshire Curve
Day
Phone: 952—884—3198
Fax: 952—884—3198
Email: lisa@mayer-johnson.com
Presenter
#2
Lori Geist
Mayer-Johnson, LLC
Day Phone: 412—951—8223
Email: lori@mayer-johnson.com
This
hands-on session will introduce participants to Boardmaker
Plus, an enhanced version of Boardmaker. This lab
will provide participants an opportunity to witness brand new and
innovative ways to bring Boardmaker activities to
life, while providing a hands—on experience to learn
this new version of Boardmaker. The focus of this
session will be to learn the new features and tools in
Boardmaker Plus and the use of the new templates
included in the program to quickly and easily create fun, interactive
activities on the computer using Boardmaker Plus.
The
session will begin with an overview of interactive, instructional, activities
on the computer. Looking at a variety of types of boards and activities created
with Boardmaker Plus, will provide participants with a
broad understanding of how the activities can be created as an extension of Boardmaker. Participants using Boardmaker
will be excited to see this next step and to learn how easy it is to take their
activities to the next level. With a conceptual understanding of Boardmaker Plus, participants will be prepared to enter the
hands-on component of this session.
To
begin the lab portion of this session, participants will learn the new features
and tools that have been added to Boardmaker Plus
that make creating both printed and on-screen activities easier than ever.
Tools include right-click options, click and dragging symbols, new menu
options, and much more. This quick run through will have participants excited
at the new ease of creating and ready to create an on—screen activity with Boardmaker Plus!
Next,
participants will be introduced to the new templates included with Boardmaker Plus. These templates allow users to more
quickly and easily create a variety of on—screen activities .including
interactive books, writing activities, dictionary pages, recipes and much
more.’ The lab will use these templates as a starting place to learn how to
create on- screen activities using Boardmaker Plus.
Using
clearly defined tutorials and the presenters’ guided instruction, participants
will create an interactive book with templates plus a writing activity about
the book. The lab will walk each participant through the steps of opening
templates, using Boardmaker Plus to get symbols,
changing the spoken message, and linking pages. In addition, participants will
link their interactive books to the bookshelf template to demonstrate how
students could independently access and read the interactive books created.
Participants will see the simplicity in creating interactive activities with Boardmaker Plus.
The aim of this session is for participants to understand Boardmaker Plus conceptually and experience it hands-on. Through a lab format, participants will gain a hands-on understanding of programming features and tricks using templates. This session is ideal for those who want to be introduced to the next generation of Boardmaker by creating both printed and interactive activities on the computer. Participants of this lab will leave with a clear understanding of how they can use Boardmaker Plus in many new and exciting ways.
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