Boardmaker and Speaking Dynamically
Where you find one you will typically find the other software. These two very
popular tools have one focus - to make communication available. That is want
most people thing of when they hear the products' names. But if you have these
tools at your school and that is all you think they do - you are missing out on
using the unique features of the products to improve learning for all the
students with whom you work. With a bit of imagination you can create
educational work sheets and support material to improve the learning in all of
your students.
Use the following Links to learn more:
Boardmaker - So you think you know how to use
Boardmaker in your classroom? Well get some ideas you may not have thought
about!
Speaking Dynamically -So you think you
know how to use Speaking Dynamically in your classroom? Or you thought it was
just for communication. Well get some ideas you may not have thought about!
Resources for Training Material
Boardmaker
will help the user (Parent, Teacher) create printable communication aids that
can be used in the environment (classroom, home, community, etc.). It can also
be used to develop worksheets and educational support material that can improve
learning in all students. All of this can be done
with very little training!
1) Use the pictures as cues for reading assignments.
2) Create communication wallets and boards for various activities in the class
or at home.
3) Create worksheets with matching activities.
4) Build literacy skills by creating tiles with the symbols that can be arranged
to create sentences and stories.
5) Organize thoughts and develop relational knowledge of new concepts - by
giving students a set of communication symbol tiles and ask them to arrange them
to show their relationship to one another.
6) Create Calendars - schedules and MORE!
Speaking
Dynamically will turn a computer into a communication device - but
that is just the beginning of what you can accomplish with this very versatile
software tool. You can easily create anything from a single switch presentation
to a powerful test preparation and test taking activity and everything in
between.
1) Create a computerized multi-page communication system (dynamic display).
2) Make classroom / educational information available in electronic format to
support students with LD as well as other students.
3) Create practice tests / quizzing activities to improve the students'
knowledge and comprehension of key concepts.
Resources
for Training Material These are some favorite
sites with helpful step-by-step instructions and great ideas!
http://www.atto.buffalo.edu/registered/Tutorials.php
http://projectparticipate.org/high-tech.asp
http://www.ci.swt.edu/common/TechnologyTutorials.html
http://www.aacintervention.com/talk.htm
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