Clicker 6 (Win/Mac) Creating a Forced Order Grid in Clicker 6. Introduction. Learning Objectives. Case Study

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1 Special Education Technology British Columbia West 75 th Ave Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6P 6G2 Phone: Fax: Clicker 6 (Win/Mac) Creating a Forced Order Grid in Clicker 6 Introduction For students who require a very high level of support forming simple sentences, Clicker 6 features forced order writing templates. These templates require a user to follow a specific sentence structure. They must choose a cell from the first column, then the second, and so on. This tutorial assumes The user knows how to open Clicker 6 Learning Objectives Completion of this tutorial will give you experience with the following: Navigating to the Templates area Configuring a template Enabling Instant Pictures feature Editing contents of a cell in Edit Mode Case Study Mr. Smith teaches a grade 3 class in which he has students with a variety of learning needs. One student, Ashton, has received a laptop computer and Clicker 6 as assistive technology. Ashton has a moderate to profound intellectual disability and is functioning at a pre-literacy level and relies on picture and auditory/oral support to complete written tasks. Verbally he uses one word utterances and requires a great deal of support forming simple sentences. The class daily works on journal writing and Mr. Smith would like to find a way to meaningfully include Ashton in this class activity. The vision is that a forced order grid will provide him with practice following a set sentence structure (i.e. noun verb noun ), using nouns and objects that Ashton is familiar with and that he likes. SET-BC 1 of

2 Create the Grid using the Templates Area 1 Plan out on paper, what you want your grid to look like. This tutorial will create the following grid: The boy likes chocolate Now we know that we will need four columns and two rows. The girl hates broccoli. From the Clicker 6 Quick Start menu choose Make a Clicker Set. 2 Highlight Templates then click Sentence Building. 3 SET-BC 2 of

3 Double-click 5. Forced Order to expand the list. Click Forced Order 1 to show the preview. 4 5 Change the number of Rows and Columns that you will need for your forced order grid. Our example will need four columns and two rows. 6 Click Create and the grid will appear at the bottom of the page. SET-BC 3 of

4 7 Save your work by clicking the ClickerSet drop down menu, choosing Save Clicker Set As and give your file a meaningful name. Enable Instant Pictures The next step requires going into Edit Mode where we will be able to enable instant pictures. 1 At the very bottom of the page, click the Edit Clicker Set button. Click the Clicker Set drop down menu and choose Clicker Set Properties. 2 SET-BC 4 of

5 3 Under the "Media" tab, enable the checkboxes for "Use Instant Pictures in cells" as well as "When this Clicker Set is in use, use Instant Pictures in the Document." Add Text and Images to Cells using Instant Pictures 1 Now that Instant Pictures in cells has been enabled... Hold down the shift key and click one of the cells. 2 Type "The boy" or similar text that you want to appear in that cell. Press the Tab key on your keyboard. 3 Pressing the 'Tab' key will do two things: An instant picture will be found and inserted into the cell. Your cursor will move to the next cell in the grid. SET-BC 5 of

6 Add Text and Images to Cells using the Picture button 1 It may be that you do not like the image chosen by Instant Pictures, or you would like to use your own photos. Click the cell you want to change so that it becomes highlighted. In the Editing Toolbar, click the "Pictures" button in the Appearance tab. 2 Note: The "Pictures" button will only appear when a cell is selected. Click "Browse." 3 Note: There are other options including painting your own image or using a webcam. SET-BC 6 of

7 To search for an image, type a search term into the field on the top of the window and press enter. 4 You may double-click the image you want to use. 5 Or, you may want to navigate to a file you have saved in your Documents folder and doubleclick it. 6 Note: Depending on your selected options in User Preferences, it may not be possible to navigate to your "My Pictures" folder nor to an external drive like an SD Card. However, you can always simply drag and drop an image right onto a cell SET-BC 7 of

8 7 Continue to add more text and images using Shift-Click, Instant Pictures, or browsing for specific images. When you have finished, click the "Edit Clicker Set" button again and save your Clicker Set file again. 8 Tip Sometimes there is an instant picture for a word in only one verb tense, for example: there is a picture for like but not for likes. In this case, type the word, such as like and use the Tab key for instant pictures. Next, shift-click in the cell and type in your new word, such as likes. SET-BC 8 of