Boardmaker

A resource for visual aids

My Experience

I really like the idea of Boardmaker, however I found the actual process of making materials frustrating and slow. It could be my computer, but my computer is only a few years old. I found the program loaded very slowly and didn't save my projects correctly or didn't save them at all. 

This was my first attempt:

• This is how it saved…it didn’t.

I recreated my project • In my first attempt I added the captions. This time I left them out

because the lag time with typing was frustrating.

• This is a pictorial sequence for hand washing. It can be used for preschool, ELL or special education.

Next Project – Small Talk• I thought of making a conversation starter script for my

next project. I don’t think the red instructions show up in the final version, but I took the screen shot before I hit save because I didn’t want to loose my work again. Here is the draft of the project:

Grand Finale • I thought of another pictorial board that would be helpful

for communicating with ELL and special education students: