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Last Updated 5.19.09 | Text Only
BOARDMAKER PLUS:
Moving from Static to Interactive Materials
Date: Wednesday June 24th, 2009 Full-day Session: 8:30 am to 3:30 pm
Price: $89 per participant
Location: AT:LAST Assistive Technology Learning Center
Presenter: Diana Jurist, Assistive Technology Specialist, AT:LAST, Inc.
This full-day workshop is designed for educators, related service personnel, and parents, especially those working with students with communication issues or who are pre-literate or learning English as a second language. Our A.T. Specialist Diana Jurist will return from maternity leave just in time!
Boardmaker software revolutionized visual supports for learning as well as communication in print format. Now, Boardmaker Plus adds the on-screen interactivity of voice, animation, and video to Boardmaker’s Picture Communication Symbols to revolutionize instruction. You can use it to create both print and interactive learning materials to address standards, adapt curriculum, and provide alternate assessments.
If you are NOT a manual reader…
If you learn more quickly in a guided experience…
If you need to set aside time to learn…
… this small group, hands-on workshop is for you!
The day will cover the programming and "user settings" of Boardmaker Plus as well as:
- linking boards
- pop up boards
- writing boards
- communication boards
- classroom activity boards such as interactive schedules, interactive matching boards, and MANY, MANY MORE...
Learning Objectives
- Recognize a variety of ways to improve and adapt environment using this software
- Discuss strategies for involving and motivating students to communicate during all classroom activities
- Identify the specific individuals in your population who would benefit from a more engaging and interactive classroom experience
- Design and link communication pages
- Design an interactive “matching” activity using Boardmaker Plus
- Modify existing static classroom activities into interactive activities
We will continue our learning AND participants will have the opportunity to take paper-based boards and transform them into interactive ones! SO BRING SOME CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES THAT YOU WANT TO MODIFY.
Once you see your own work transformed you will wonder what you ever did without this valuable tool.
If you are totally new to Boardmaker, please contact the instructor before enrolling at djurist@matcoop.org.
When registering, please take note:
- You should bring your laptop with software loaded or you may request use of one of our PC laptops. (You may indicate this on the registration form.)
- Both platforms will be covered. If you are a Mac user, you must bring your own laptop, and have the program pre-installed. If you are a PC user and do NOT have the program, you can download a 30 day of Boardmaker Plus trial from www.mayer-johnson.com
- Seating is limited to 20 participants – please register early!
- Last day to register is Friday, June 19 .
- Cost for this full-day session is $89. Refreshments will be available.
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