Please start with the following:

1.Open Boardmaker Studio 2.Create a Boardmaker Achieve account using your district email3.Remember your username and password

Tacoma Public Schools

Boardmaker Studio“Quick Start”

Training

Housekeeping

• Please turn off cell phones• Please consume outside of the room• Closed water containers are okay• Let’s be fully present! • Clock hour forms will be signed at the end

• Date: October 2, 2013 Time: 4:00-7:00 pm Hours: 3• Instructor: Courtney O’Catherine Class: Boardmaker

Quick Starts

• Please ask questions during the training!• If you are thinking it…there are probably 2 other people who are

thinking it and 2 others that wished they were thinking it ;)

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Boardmaker Studio

Ideal for creating activities for Learning and Literacy

Special Features of Boardmaker Studio : • 100’s of Onscreen and Print Templates • Collection of Popular Features called Gadgets• Included Video Reinforcements• Collection of tutorials and online videos

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BoardmakerAchieve.com

•Free Board Sharing• Postings from all over the world of 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 discussions with one another.

•Tacoma Public Schools• A private group for TPS employees to share activities and

have discussions (look for email invitation to come).

Handouts

• Boardmaker Studio PDF Tutorial• Studio Starter Templates Overview• Import Boardmaker Boards• Group Buttons• Symbolate

• BoardmakerShare (Achieve) PDF Tutorial• Presentation Notes worksheet• FAQ• Jump Start – Autism• Quick Start Templates

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Boardmaker Studio

• The main goal of the program:

• Less time creating, more time using the activities with your students!

• How?• When you launch the program, think:

• How can I use the Templates in the program to create the activity that will be the most meaningful for my students?

• Have I checked BoardmakerAchieve.com?

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Studio Starter Templates

• Studio Starter Templates will redefine how you think of “templates”

• A Studio Starter Template is the quickest way to make a print or onscreen Boardmaker Studio activity. It provides the format and the programming the activity requires.

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Boardmaker Studio

• Studio Starter Templates

Stamping

Books

Slideshows

Calendars

Cause & Effect

Dancing Pictures

Choice Board

Comment Board

Explore

Hidden PictureFlashcards

Memory Game

Matching Game

Bingo Game

Labeling

Go-Togethers

Matching Word to Picture

CountingSorting

Hundred Block

Picture GraphBar Graph

Counting Bills

Counting Coins

Make a Pattern

Multiple Choice

True False

Yes/No

Sequencing

Time Schedule

Numbered Schedule

Fill-in Schedule

Weekly Schedule

Word ScrambleWord Making

Choice WritingEasy Writing

Easy Writing

Word Bank

Sentence Scramble

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Trainings Resources in Studio

• Online tutorials (Video and PDF)• accessible through the Help option

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Additional Training Resources

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www. Mayer-Johnson.com Scroll down to the bottom of the page

Look for Boardmaker Training Find Live and Recorded training

Contact Information

Thank You for your time!

• Questions? • Need Additional Information?

• enid@mayer-johnson.com• twest@tacoma.k12.wa.us

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Boardmaker Studio Demonstration

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