Beret Study Buddy: Vocabulary

1. Beret Study Buddy: Vocabulary • Beret Study Buddy: Vocabulary is a vocabulary program that can be used in your classroom to motivate students to practice and learn content vocabulary words. • This program keeps track of word lists and uses the words in these lists for games.

2. Main Screen • There are 5 square buildings on the main screen. • All Words • Quiz • Guess? • Word Find • Tic-Tac-Toe • There are 3 oval tutorial bubbles on the main screen. • Help! • Setup • Stats

3. Main Screen View All Words 1st stop Quiz Guess? Word Find Tic-Tac- Toe Stats Help! Set up

4. The “All Words” Building • This is the building you tap into to create and manage your lists of words. • You can tap into: • All words • This shows all the words in your word list. • New • This will let you add a new word to your list. • Copy • This will let you copy words from one list to another list. • Add a new list • This lets you create a new list.

5. “All Words” Screen Layout All Words Default List Find:_________________ copy Done New Add New List

6. The “Quiz” Building • This building lets you take a matching quiz. • You will read the given definition and then tap on the correct answer choice. • Tap on the forward arrow for the next definition.

7. The “Quiz” Screen Layout Quiz CLUE: An animal with black and white stripes. A. dog B. cheetah C. zebra Start Quit Done

8. The “Guess” Game • This is a game in which you have to guess the letters for the word that matches the definition. • Guess all the right letters before Herbert runs out of suitcases.

9. The “Guess” Game Layout • Guess 00:00 CLUE: An animal that barks. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P QR S T U V W X Y Z Answer:***

10. The “Word Find” Game • Word Find is a word search game in which the students have to find the words hidden in the letters on the screen. • When you locate a word, tap on the beginning letter and the ending letter to select it. • Tap on the pop-up screen in the upper right-hand corner and a list will appear to show you a list of all the words in the word list.

11. The “Word Find” Game Layout Word Find 00:00 cat AKLPJDILDBBLDIUDFHA CATJFIANCLBNDUIUOIG HFUIPDUIFYPAIHFEOUV Found ___ out of ___ Done

12. The “Tic-Tac-Toe” Game • To play this tic-tac-toe game, you have to answer a question correctly to earn the square. • You have 3 choices to play tic-tac-toe • You and a friend can take turns using one handheld. • You can play against the handheld. • You can play against another handheld using infrared.

13. The “Tic-Tac-Toe” Game Layout Tic Tac Toe Player 1 is X Score:__ Player 2 is O Score:__ handheld infrared Partners

14. Help! • The help tutorial bubble brings you to a screen that lists a table of contents. • Tap on a word in the table of contents. The help tutorial will link you to a step by step process in order to help you answer your questions about the program.

15. Help Layout • Help Topics (Tap on for Help) • Table of Contents • Introduction • View All Words • How to add a word • Creating a new word list • Removing a word list • Game setup • Etc…..

16. Stats • This bubble will take you to a screen that will keep track of the last 10 times you ran Study Buddy. • The Stats page keeps track of the number of problems correct and the number of problems attempted. • This screen is valuable for the teacher in evaluating how the students performed.

17. Stats Layout • Date Correct/Total=% 5/25/06 10/10= 100%

18. Setup • The setup bubble brings you to a screen that lets the teacher determine aspects of the game, such as; • Time allowed to answer questions • Volume • Difficulty level for tic-tac-toe • Number of quiz questions

19. Setup Layout • Guess? Timeout: 1 2 3 min. • How good is Herbert at Tic-Tac-Toe • Easy Good Great • Volume: Off Low Med High • Word Find Scrolls • Number of quiz questions:___ • Keep quizzes for ___ days. Done

20. Let’s Practice • Now that you have seen an overview of how the Study Buddy Vocabulary program works, lets create a word list so we can play each of the three games.

21. How to Create a List • To add a new word list: • Tap on “Add New List” on the “All words” screen • Enter a name for the list • Tap on the “OK” button • Now you can start entering in your new words and definitions. • Go ahead and enter 7 words and definitions.

22. TIME FOR FUN • Now that you have a word list created, go ahead and play the game of your choice. • Play each game for approximately 7 min. • I’ll let you know when to switch games. • When all three games have been played, we will go to the statistics and evaluate how you did.