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1. Boardmaker Version 6 Presented by:
Karen Miller
kmiller@harrisonburg.k12.va.us
2. Opening Boardmaker Insert boardmaker disc
Double click on boardmaker icon
3. Opening a New Board Click on Open a New Board
Set up your board to make icons
Set icon size
Use button sprayer tool to reproduce as many uniform buttons as poosible
Change the buttons shape
Select all/ use the corner tool
Encourage cutting on a handout
Select all/ use the thickness tool
Fill in with symbol maker
4. Creating a new board Make a button
FINDER SETTINGS
Can have 2 language lines
Can change line size
Can move labels to top or bottom
5. Opening a Saved Board Click on Open a Saved Board
Choose the file you would like to open
Edit the file or use as is
6. Opening a Saved Template Click on Open a Saved Template
Choose the Template
Edit the template
Save your changes
7. Improved Button Resizing Press and HOLD Ctrl Button
Resize your button while resizing the icon
Press and HOLD Ctrl Button and Shift Button
No distortion of the button, an easy modification to allow a student to have a 1X1 and another student to have a 2X2 without additional work
8. Shuffle and Swap
9. Swap Buttons Swap to put like colors of fruit together
Highlight one button you would like to change
Shift and right click the other box you would like to swap
Edit, Swap buttons
10. Shuffle Buttons Ideal to make bingo boards for a review
Gross resorting of the highlighted buttons on your page
Can choose to shuffle some versus all, just highlight the group you are swapping
11. Change Text Uniformly Select All
Go under Text
Change Text size
To make the text bigger in correlation to the symbol size
Shift, control, right click
To change a large number of boxes’ size
Select all, go to the bottom left corner of the box, Control, shift, drag
12. Other Features Cursor
Button Tool
Freeform Button Tool
Button Sprayer Tool
Line Tool
Text Tool
Symbolate
Color Tool
Thickness Tool
Corner Tool
Shadow Tool
13. Alignment and Centering
14. Drag and Drop
15. Drop into a Board Open your image either by opening a file or searching Google images.
Highlight a drag your image down to the Boardmaker icon on the task bar
Boardmaker will pop open, pull your image into the image box
16. Drop into Symbol Finder Have your symbol finder open before you open your image file or do your Google search
Drag your image down to the boardmaker icon on the toolbar and drag it right into the symbol finder
Assign a category for your image, rename it, and close it
Your image is now available in the symbol finder
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