Write All About It

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Write All About It

• Creating Writing Activities with Boardmaker Plus

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Learning Objectives

• Participants will be able to
• use features of Boardmaker Plus to create an
  on-screen writing activity.
• design on-screen writing activities that target
  specific written expression goals.
• differentiate writing activities based on student
  levels and needs.

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Boardmaker Software Family

• On-screen writing activities can be created using
  Boardmaker Plus or Boardmaker with SDPro.

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Review of Writing Samples

• Look for formats
• Look for features
• Look for writing goals addressed

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Writing Goal

• It is imperative that you identify what your goal
  is in the writing activity.
• Is it
• To teach a specific writing skill?
• Spelling
• Sentence Order
• Punctuation
• To capture students ideas, thoughts answers?

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Review of Design Strategy

• Content
• Design
• Format

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Content What you present

• What information do you present?
• More obvious for writing.

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Design How you represent it

• Objects
• Photos
• Symbols
• Multi-media
• Orthography

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Design Visual Representations

• Objects
• Photos
• Symbols

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Design Visual Representations

• PCS Animations
• Video
• Auditory Feedback

Put hands in pockets
Falling in Love
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Design Symbol- Supported Text
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DesignSymbol Supported Text
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Format How you present it

• How are you grouping words?
• How are you presenting word options/banks?
• What is the layout?
• Is color-coding being used?
• How much per page?

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Lets take a look at some samples!
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Hands-On

• Learning Boardmaker Plus through the context of
  writing ideas.
• Try to broaden how you think of features so you
  arent limited to JUST writing activities!

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Hands-On

• The anatomy of a writing activity

Message Display
Message Actions
Input Buttons Picture Buttons and/or Text Buttons
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Hands-On

• Basic components
• Symbol Supported writing
• Text based writing
• Mixed symbol/text
• With sound reinforcement
• With Pop-up boards
• Writing between multiple boards
• As time permits Set Button Properties
• As time permits Independent Practice

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Review New Tools in Development

• Examples of templates utilizing advanced features.

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