Monday, April 4, 2016

100 Animated Step-by-Steps™ !!!

It’s official …. There are now 100 different Animated Step-by-Step titles available for purchase in the Bloom Where You're Planted Store on the Teachers Pay Teachers site.  These titles can be purchased on the TpT site, individually or in small theme-related bundles ... offering greater savings over an individual purchase. 




Animated Step-by-Steps™ are designed to support literacy, language and AAC in a consistent way across a broad range of classroom activities: Food Preparation, Arts & Crafts, Songs, Poems, Math Projects, Science Projects and Stories. Choose from three different formats: Regular (no symbols), SymbolStix-supported or Picture Communication Symbol-supported. This resource can be flexibly displayed on the ‘big screen’ (interactive whiteboard, large screen TV using apple TV) or the ‘little screen’ (computer monitor or iPad using the free Microsoft PowerPoint app)

Content is appropriate for both regular and special education. Great for providing differentiated instruction in blended classrooms.


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Several agencies/schools have opted to buy the entire library of resources with considerable savings. If your school or agency is interested in buying a bundled library of 100 Animated Step-by-Steps™,  please contact cgoossens@me.com

Regular library bundle of 100 titles  ($350)  (over $150 savings)
SymbolStix/PCS library bundle of 100 titles ($450)  (over $150 savings)


The library bundle includes 38 recipes + 34 poems/songs + 8 science experiments + 2 stories + 15 crafts + 3 miscellaneous activities

Recipes
Apple Crisp
Apple Juice
Apple Pie
Applesauce
April Fools Grilled Cheese
Banana Yogurt Shake
Banana Berry Shake
Bird Nest Cookies
Brownies
Butter
Caramel Apple Bites
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Corn Muffins
Cranberry Sauce
Deviled Eggs
Dirt Pudding
Easy Spaghetti
Egg Salad Sandwiches
English Muffin Pizzas
Food for Your Waxworms
Holiday Wreath Cookies
Hot Chocolate
Ice Cream in a Bag (single serving)
Ice Cream in a Bag (8 servings)
Instant Oatmeal
Macaroni and Cheese
Orange Juice (from frozen concentrate)
Pancakes (from scratch)
Pink Cupcakes
Pistachio Cake
Play Snow
Potato Latkes
Pumpkin Loaf
Pumpkin Pie
Scrambled Eggs for Two
Soda bread
Spaghetti (with meat)
Tuna Salad Sandwiches

Poems/Songs
5 Brave Firefighters
5 Fat Turkeys
5 Green & Speckled Frogs
5 Little Cones (Grade 2 money version)
5 Little Cones (Preschool version)
5 Little Mealworms
5 Little Pumpkins
5 Little Snowmen
5 Little Tadpoles
5 Little Waxworms
10 Brave Firefighters
Albuquerque Turkey
Apple Tree Poem
Baby What’s Wrong?
Birthday Cake Poem
Chef Salad Song
Chuga Chuga Song
Decorating the Tree Poem
Fruit Salad Song
Get Up and Dance Song
The Green Grass Grew All Around Song
Home on the Bus Song
I’m a Little Latke Song
I’m a Little Mealworm Song
I’m a Little Waxwork Song
Making Cookies with Mom Poem
Mary Wore Her Red Dress Song
Miss Polly’s Dolly Song
Mister Sun Song
My Little Waxwork Song/Poem
On Top of Spaghetti Song
Ordering Pizza Poem
Turkey on the Farm Song
Who Came to School Today Song

Science Projects
Bean Experiment
Dry-Wet Mealworm Experiment
Egg Cola Experiment
Grassy Caterpillars
Light-Dark Mealworm Experiment
Mealworm Life Cycle
Parts of the Mealworm
Planting

Stories
Helping Mister Potato Head
Let’s Make a Snowman

Crafts
Baggie Butterflies
Bottle Snowmen
Bubble Art
Butterfly Puppets
Dyed Eggs
Egg Carton Caterpillars
Glitter Jar
Jack-o-Lantern
Marble Painting
Paper Bag Pumpkins
Paper Bag Turkeys
Pine Cone Turkeys
Play Doh
Spaghetti and Meatballs
Spin Art

Miscellaneous Activities
Counting Snacks for Baby
CVC Mystery Balls
I Spy With My Little Eye


Monday, March 28, 2016

Using Guided Access with Animated Step-by-Steps™

The iPad has a nifty feature called, guided access. This feature is perfect for students that love to push buttons … literally and figuratively. The guided access feature allows you to tap the home button three times …. enter a code … and presto the iPad is now in ‘lock down’ mode, i.e., the child is able to freely interact with the current app but is unable to use the home button to wander elsewhere on the iPad. When guided access in enabled, the home button no longer takes you to the home screen / app  selection pages.

So how do you release the iPad from this guided access?  Simply tap the home button three times … enter your previously established code … and presto the home button now functions normally. If you are using guided access with an Animated Step-by-Step on the  Microsoft PowerPoint App, a single tap of the home button by the child will issue a reminder that the program is in guided access mode and you must tap the home button three times to conjure up the passcode page.

Here are the steps to setting up guided access on your ipad.

Here is the big picture path …

Settings ---- General --- Accessibility ---- Guided Access ---Set Passcode --- Accessibility Shortcut


Here is the illustrated path ….


1. Select the Settings app on your home page












2. Select General








3. Select Accessibility (scroll down to the Learning Section to find it)





4 Select Guided Access













5. Toggle on Guided Access



6. Tap Passcode Settings




7. Set Passcode (enter 6 digit number)















8. Toggle on the Accessibility Shortcut (this feature allows you to access guided access by simply tapping the home button three times)






To use Guided Access, simply launch the app you wish to use, triple click on the home button. It will show a small message informing you that guided access is on.

To exit Guided Access, triple click on the home button . You will be given the option of end (upper far left) or resume (upper far right).

If you select end, it will allow you to enter your previously established passcode and the program will exit guided access.









If the home button is touched by you or a  student while in guided access, it will remind you at the top of the page that guided access is enabled and you must triple click the home button to exit. 



Word of caution, be stealthy when entering your code. Our students can be quite observant. Also make sure the code  you select is easy to remember, especially if the iPad is being shared by several staff in an educational setting.

My cat loves her cat apps but in the process of tussling with that elusive mouse on the screen she inadvertently hits that home button then gets into all kinds of trouble. With guided access in place she can concentrate on playing with that mouse without being too distracted by the other cat apps on the iPad.

…’til the next post …  (new posts every Monday)

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©2016 Carol Goossens’, Ph.D.
Augmentative Communication Consultant
Speech-Language Pathologist
Special Educator