OMG! (as in Oh My Goodness)
You HAVE to read this post by Jenna Rayburn and you MUST start following her blog! This gal is one of my favorite go to people for great and creative therapy ideas!! She has made my list of (insert angelic ♫♪♫ sound here) "SLP Goddesses" like Cindy Meeser!
Jenna is an SLP from Ohio working with preschool and elementary speech kids. She has all the alphabet soup at the end of her name making her qualified to work magic ;) She is bubbly and fun and one of the sweetest gals you could ever meet.
When I read her blog on how to take Pinterest images and create your own picture boards for therapy activities, I knew I would have to share that with you because it is
too good to miss!! I thank God for creative people like Jenna.
Used with her permission here's her recent blog post.
Turning Pinterest Boards Into A Therapy Activity!
If you follow me on pinterest, you might notice I use it A LOT. A few weeks ago PediaStaff
started creating boards with pictures to be used in therapy. They made
boards with action pictures, pronouns, problem solving, inferencing and
concepts. As soon as Heidi emailed me and told me about them, I knew I
could adapt them for speech therapy on the ipad. I figured it would be
way more entertaining than printing them all out! About the same time, I
won an app called TapikeoHD.
After playing with it for a while I realized it was perfect for the
PediaStaff pinterest boards. Let me show you what I came up with!
The app I used is called Tapikeo and available at this time for $2.99 in the app store. Tapikeo
allows you create your own audio-enabled picture books, storyboards,
audio flashcards, and more using a versatile grid style layout. Check it
out for yourself in the itunes store here.
First I opened Pinterest on my ipad and decided I would make an activity working on labeling verbs. I opened their board for actions words.
Then I saved the pictures to my ipad by holding down on them to save.
Next
you will head on over to the app and start a new grid. When you click
on the empty grid square you will get a screen like this. If you want
text to accompany your photo/audio (and I did because I want to support literacy skills!) you
can type that in at the top. I type " The boy is ___." Then select
'browse' to add the photos you just saved to the ipad. Then select
record. For my grid I saved my voice reading "The boy is." When I use it
with younger students, all they need to do is name the verb. For older
students working on full sentence generation - I can turn the sound off
and they are responsible for developing the whole sentence.
Once I finished adding all my cards (it took me about 5 or 10 minutes) the board looks like this.
When
the student clicks on one of the pictures, it expands to fill the
screen and the audio/visual joins the picture. This is when my students
identified the verb or created a new sentence!
There
is also an 'e-book' setting where the app transfers your pictures into
more of a slideshow like setting. I kept mine on the grid formation so I
could work on receptive language skills at the same time. I had the
students pick their picture a few different ways: by following
directions with spatial concepts, by answering WH questions, or by
listening to clues and making basic inferences.
These
boards are easy to make in the app and PediaStaff has done most of the
work finding all these great images. What other topic boards would you
like to see PediaStaff create?
Hello There,
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to see if you were currently interested in additional guest bloggers for your blog site.
I see that you've accepted some guest posters in the past - are there any specific guidelines you need me to follow while making submissions?
If you're open to submissions, whom would I need to send them to?
I'm eager to send some contributions to your blog and think that I can cover some interesting topics.
Thanks for your time,
Tess