Ideas for Using Boardmaker

Use Boardmaker to

Make communication boards. Create calendars. Design schedules. Modify curriculum. Import digital pictures. Make photo albums. And much, much more. . .

Boardmaker Templates Boardmaker comes

with calendar templates that are ready to use.

Just add symbols and print out your calendar.

Templates Boardmaker has over 185 templates that fit a

variety of communication devices.

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More templates

Templates come in a variety of sizes and shapes. All are ready to have symbols added.

DigiVox

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More Templates

Boardmaker has templates that fit the a variety of display items.

Good way to increase communication in the community.

Boardmaker Schedule Templates

If you use schedules, Boardmaker provides 7 schedule templates that are ready to have symbols added.

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More Schedule Templates

Boardmaker Schedules come in several styles. Use the templates or design a schedule template of your own.

Ready to have symbols added

Create your own schedules

Design schedules to fit a variety of activities that will take students through the day.

Designing with Boardmaker Design an I.E.P.

form.

Use Boardmaker to create a template to communicate student progress.

Customizing Curriculum Make worksheets,

reading activities, writing activities, and more.

With Boardmaker, they can be simple or complex as you want them to be.

More Customizing Create writing activities

by using School Fonts for Beginning Writers and/or Transitional Fonts for Emergent Writers.

Both programs work with Boardmaker or any other word processing program.

Designing with Boardmaker Make picture

directions for the classroom or home.

Designing with Boardmaker Customize books

by using Boardmaker to make sentence strips.

Hint: Use Avery Removable Full Sheet Label Paper #6465. Symbols can usually be removed without damaging the paper.

Designing with Boardmaker Make your own

PECs or PCS cards.

Make a 2” grid, add symbols, print, cut apart and laminate. It’s so easy!

Designing with Boardmaker Make your own

flash cards and picture cards.

Make the cards any size or style you want.

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Designing with Boardmaker You can even

make recipe cards.

Designing with Boardmaker Make classroom signs.

These can be used to inform about class activities or to give directions.

Creating with Boardmaker Make books.

Create games and song boards.

WHALE’S TALE GAME

Twinkle, twinkle little star.

How I wonder what

you are. Up above the world

Twinkle, twinkle little star.

My ABC

Book

Creating with Boardmaker Create your own

picture and/or photo library.

Import digital and/or scanned photos directly into Boardmaker and use them to customize items for the class.

Mrs. Murphy

melon

Creating with Boardmaker Scan images from

fast food restaurant menus.

Use scanned images to create a picture menu of favorite fast food restaurant items.

Designing with Boardmaker Make a photo

album or class newsletter.

Take pictures of classroom activities, import them into BM to use anyway you want.

Designing with Boardmaker Make a place mat.

Customize any place mat with symbols or design your own with construction paper and laminate for durability.

Extra Boardmaker Symbols Add to your symbol

collection using addendum libraries. The 1998 library features a large number of animal and food symbols.

Extra Boardmaker Symbols The 2000 addendum

features a new public sign category as well as an extensive geography symbol library.

Extra Boardmaker Symbols

The new 2002 Addendum library features a new behavior symbol category and more bathroom skills symbols.

Extra Boardmaker Symbols Boardmaker has

sign language symbols to add to your BM libraries.

Extra Boardmaker Symbols Picture This. . .for

Boardmaker. These photos have been scaled to 2-inches to match BM symbol size.

This library will add over 2700 photos to your BM library.

Photos look best at 2-inches, quality lessens as the photo is enlarged.

Print ‘n Play 50 ready to print

bingo and mystery games

Print ‘n Communicate

Print ‘n Eat

21 communication boards that are great for children and adults.

50 communication boards covering favorite fast food restaurants.

Engineering Preschool Displays

Flip ‘n Talk Low-tech solution

providing access to a large symbol vocabulary.

4 different display formats are available.

Print ‘n Learn

Digital Photo Programs Picture This. . . Picture This…Pro Photo Objects Big Box of Art