Are you looking for a way to add short videos that can be viewed offline and visual scenes with hotspots to TD Snap? Come learn how to use Boardmaker 7 to create these and then use them in the integrated Boardmaker Activities. Don’t have a Boardmaker 7 subscription? No worries… you’ll also learn how to sign up for a free trial to create what you want.

Available on TPT: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/How-to-add-Videos-Visual-Scenes-with-Hotspots-in-TD-Snap-via-Boardmaker-7-11196195

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Preview

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This resource includes a 50 page PDF of my slides with step by step instructions + over an hour of unlisted videos:

• Overview Video (27:23)

• 12 step-by-step “how to” videos (totaling 41:09)

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What you’ll learn in this resource:

• The importance of honoring Multimodal Communication

• Involving the individual in the process of customizing their AAC

• How to access a free trial of Boardmaker 7 / Boardmaker 7 Editor

• Tips for saving videos and images in Boardmaker 7 Editor

• How to use Boardmaker 7 Editor to create short videos and visual scenes with hotspots “activities” for use in TD Snap on an iPad

• How to upload what you create to the Snap Activities folder in your account on myBoardmaker

• How to access Boardmaker Activities in TD Snap

• How to create a button to open a specific Boardmaker Activity in TD Snap

• How to find training resources from Tobii Dynavox about learning to use Boardmaker 7

Note: This resource was updated on 5/29/24 to reflect changes that Tobii Dynavox made to TD Snap. As of 5/21/24, they no longer offer the general public the option to do a 1x app-only purchase of this app. It switched to a subscription-based model. The 1.35.1 app update for TD Snap on 12/4/24 added an integrated YouTube player. This is a nice option for teens and adults who need the alternative access of their Speech Generating Device to play YouTube videos for leisure. Playing YouTube videos requires an internet connection and that player is not secured. This is very different from those who want to use short video clips for communication and/or self regulation and need a way to play them reliably offline in a secure way. For those purposes creating Boardmaker Activities will continue to be the best solution at this point in time

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Notes:

• Boardmaker 7 Editor can only be used to create these Boardmaker Activities on a Chromebook, Windows computer or tablet, or a Mac. Unfortunately there is NOT a way to use Boardmaker 7 Editor to create activities on an iPad (there’s no Boardmaker 7 Editor iOS app and it won’t work in a browser on an iPad). See this website for device compatibility: https://goboardmaker.com/pages/boardmaker-7-help?tab=1.
• You must be connected to WiFi in order to initially load a Boardmaker Activity in TD Snap. Then you’ll have the option to toggle on Offline Use for each activity. Offline activities are downloaded per device. If the Page Set is synced or shared to a different device, the download process must be repeated on that device to make the activities available offline.
• My demo shows these being added in the Motor Plan 66 pageset in TD Snap. You can add buttons to open a Boardmaker Activity in any of the pagesets within that app.
• My demo videos are Boardmaker 7 Editor on my Pixelbook Chromebook and TD Snap on my iPad 9th gen. If you are using a Mac or Windows device what you see on your screen may be a bit different than mine.
• The ability to play the videos may vary based on the available memory & RAM on that device.

Read in-depth info about using Boardmaker Activities in TD Snap starting on page 53 in the TD Snap User’s Manual: https://download.mytobiidynavox.com/Snap/documents/TD_Snap_UsersManual_en-US.pdf#page53

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This research article has helpful considerations for selecting media for use in Visual Scenes and Video Visual Scenes: “Visual Scene Displays for Children and Adults: Using Case Studies to Bridge Research and Clinical Practice”, https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2022_PERSP-22-00162

And an older research article: “Using Visual Scene Displays as Communication Support Options
Using Visual Scene Displays as Communication Support Options
for People with Chronic, Severe Aphasia”: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1153&context=specedfacpub

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Looking for in-depth AAC feature matching resources? See this blog post: https://bit.ly/5aacFeatureMatchingResources. That post also includes videos comparing AAC apps on various devices on various platforms.

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Looking for more AAC resources? Check out the Resource Links page my blog: https://omazingkidsllc.com/omazing-kids-aac-resource-links 

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Angela Moorad, MS, CCC-SLP, Founder of OMazing Kids, LLC, OMazing Kids AAC Consulting

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