On the Go with Boardmaker Software Family

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On the Go with Boardmaker Software Family

• Presenter Enid Hurtado, DynaVox Mayer-Johnson

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The Wanderer

• traveling from place to place
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Do you?

• eat lunch in your car?
• have a trunk full of materials?
• have students to see by region?
• sign in at the location you visit?
• ... visit at least 3 homes or schools per day?
• carry a bag or pull cart?

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Have you ever ?

• arrived at a site with a planned lesson to find
  it is not going to work that day?
• had a new student placed on your schedule and
  find yourself scrambling to piece together an
  appropriate lesson?

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Have you ever?

• been in the middle of instruction and think gosh
  I wish I had that visual support Ive used for
  Tommy when he was in the same place?
• Or I wish I could modify this activity for this
  parent so they can use this same strategy at home?

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Learning Objectives

• Participants will be able to
• identify how the demonstrated resources will
  allow them to present high quality visual support
  activities and overcome some of the challenges
  and obstacles they face as itinerant
  professionals.
• use the demonstrated resources of
  AdaptedLearning.com, the Print Editor, and
  Boardmaker Plus Player
• formulate a plan to integrate demonstrated
  resources in to an effective quality service plan
  to enable their clients or students to more
  effectively accomplish their goals.

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Agenda

• I. Use of Visual Supports for Itinerants
• II. Identification of Needs
• III. Boardmaker Software Family
• Difference between Print and On-screen,
  Interactive
• Samples
• IV. Meeting Your Needs
• V. Plan
• VI. Wrap It Up

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My Background Experience

• Inclusion Facilitator
• Early Child Education Specialist
• Behavior Specialist

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Boardmaker Software Family

• Quick look at Boardmaker Software Family

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Resources

• AdaptedLearning.com
• A free board sharing website
• Print Editor
• An online Boardmaker activity editor accessed
  through AdaptedLearning.com
• Boardmaker Plus Player
• A player for the use of interactive, on-screen
  activities

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Needs of Itinerants

• Survey says
• For a central accessible place to keep materials
• Activities that are easily adaptable to
  different students so that they only need to be
  made once
• Input and exchange of ideas from other
  itinerants/ professional in their field
• Parent friendly materials that they can
  generalized or use in the home/community
  environments

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Key word Accessible
Free board sharing website that houses Boardmaker
Print Editor and is accessed by people all over
the world. No longer do you need to reinvent the
wheel when creating activities with the
Boardmaker Software Family!
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AdaptedLearning.com

• Benefits
• Free Board sharing
• Postings from all over the world of Boardmaker v5
  and v6 activities
• Search Engine
• Can search by specific topic, skill, event,
  material, population, age group, domain, etc.
• Public and Private groups
• Create or Join a group by topic, department, or
  student and share activities and blog with one
  another

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AdaptedLearning.com

• Benefits
• News and Views
• Articles and Trainings that cover for main
  topics Getting Started, Classroom
  Implementation, Home, Results
• Blogs
• Ask questions to Expert users of the Boardmaker
  Software Family

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AdaptedLearning.com

• Benefits
• Messages
• Communicate with colleagues and other users of
  the Boardmaker Software Family to overcome the
  solitude and barriers that are the nature of the
  position
• Access all of these benefits from anywhere there
  is an internet connection!
• No more USB or memory sticks or e-mailing needed
  to retrieve or share boards
• No more fear of losing your boards on a certain
  sites computer or network!

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AdaptedLearning.com

• Lets check it out!

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Key word Adaptable

• Adapted Learning Print Editor
• Designed to save practitioners time
• lets users modify and print
  Boardmaker print boards found
• on AdaptedLearning.com - using any
  computer with an
• internet connection.

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Adapted Learning Print Editor

• Benefits
• Print any Boardmaker board on AdaptedLearning
  without needing to have your Boardmaker CD in
  hand.
• Very similar to Boardmaker so no need to learn a
  new system.
• Can print from any computer that has an Internet
  connection

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Adapted Learning Print Editor

• Benefits
• Import images from the internet or personal
  photos of family members, friends, pets and more
  directly to the symbol browser for use on any
  board you edit.
• Save modifies boards in private folders on
  AdaptedLearning.com to organize your boards for
  each student or class.

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Boardmaker Print Editor

• Lets check it out!

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Key word Generalization

• Boardmaker Plus Player helps deliver accessible,
• interactive, on-screen activities to students
  with
• special needs. Every student can use the
  activities
• created with Boardmaker Plus! Which can also be
• downloaded from AdapatedLearning, our free board
• sharing site. Parents can purchase Boardmaker
  Plus
• Player for installation on their home computer
• so students can work on adapted activities at
  home.

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Boardmaker Plus Player

• Benefits
• Home activities created with Boardmaker Plus! can
  be download by parents from a private group on
  Adaptedlearning.com and can work with their
  children on their home computer.
• Makes curriculum accessible to students who
  require switches, scanning, joysticks,
  head-trackers and other access methods.

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Boardmaker Plus Player

• Benefits
• Includes all students in the curriculum youre
  teaching.
• Stimulates peer cooperation during group
  activities.
• Incorporates interactive lessons from
  AdaptedLearning.com.
• Encourages independent work.

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Key wordConsultation

• AdaptedLearning brings it all together
• Access to thousands of boards
• Access to your boards
• Access to your colleagues boards
• Modify boards on location for individualized
  instruction
• Access to articles and trainings
• Communicate and share materials among an IEP team
  and parents

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Effective Service Plan
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Effective Service Plan
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Effective Service Plan

• Student will mand for help, snack, bathroom, and
  break 8/10 in 3 consecutive session with
  practitioner trials as shown thorough
  practitioners data record.
• AL Practitioner will access activities created
  by other professionals, share ideas, troubleshoot
  challenges, and post activities for family and
  other team members to support generalization.
• PE Practitioner will modify activities used
  during session for home and school use when
  visiting student in those two settings.
• BMP Practitioner will post modified interactive
  on-screen supporting activities used during
  instructional sessions that are appropriate for
  school and home setting for parents and classroom
  teacher to access and use with student to
  initiate generalization in those specific
  settings.

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Effective Service Plan

• Student will mand for help, snack, bathroom, and
  break 8/10 consecutive 3 trials at the school as
  observed by practitioner and as shown thorough
  practitioners data record.
• AL Practitioner will dialog with classroom
  teacher and other IEP team members, modify and
  post activities for as needed to troubleshoot
  challenges and support achievement of objective.
  
• PE Practitioner will modify activities, as
  needed, for student to have meaningful use and
  exchange of target words during session with
  student in classroom.
• BMP Practitioner will post modified interactive
  on-screen supporting activities used during
  instructional session at school for parents to
  use with student

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Effective Service Plan

• Student will mand for help, snack, bathroom, and
  break 8/10 consecutive 3 trials at home as
  observed by practitioner and shown thorough
  practitioners data record.
• AL Practitioner will dialog with parents and
  other IEP team members, modify and post
  activities for parents as needed to troubleshoot
  challenges and support achievement of objective.
  
• PE Practitioner will modify activities, as
  needed, for student to have meaningful use and
  exchange of target words during session with
  student at home visit.
• BMP Practitioner will post modified interactive
  on-screen supporting activities used during
  instructional session at home for classroom
  teacher to access and use with student to support
  generalization of home activities at school.

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Be a Smarter Wanderer

• Resources to make your wandering more effective
  so you can say no to these questions once and
  for all!
• arrived at a site with a planned lesson to find
  it is not going to work that day and fumbling for
  something else to do?
• have a new student put on your schedule and find
  yourself scrambling to piece together an
  appropriate lesson?
• wish you could modify an activity for parents
  during the session so they can immediately use
  the same strategy at home but have to wait for
  next session to give it to the parent?
• been in the middle of instruction and think gosh
  I wish I had that visual support Ive used for
  Tommy when he was in the same place?

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Access to Resources

• www. AdaptedLearning.com
• Print Editor
• Groups
• Free board sharing website
• www.mayer-johnson.com
• Boardmaker Plus Player
• Boardmaker Software Family

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Questions?

• For inquiries or additional information
• please visit us at our booth or e-mail
• enid_at_mayer-johnson.com
• Thank you!

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