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bjbjz Well, good afternoon everybody. Welcome to our new day for the iPad app webinars.
We re going to be doing these on Tuesdays at 3:00 central from now on. And so this will
be the first one on Tuesday. And today, we re going to look at a tool called Abilipad.
I m going to open it up here. It s this s right in the middle of my screen. It s right
there. This Abilipad app, this is an adaptive writing tool that combines customizable keyboard
with word prediction and text-to-speech, to allow students that have disabilities to be
able to use their strengths to type on the iPad itself. So as you look at the top of
the screen oh, and it costs it retails for $19.99 in the App Store. They have just done
it if you ve used Abilipad in the past, they ve just done an update that s made it much
easier, and much nicer to use. If you look at the top here, you can see there are two
things. There s notepads and there s keyboards. With notepads, we open that up; we can start
typing within a notepad. I m going to hit keyboards because I would like to show you
kind of how we can do different things. We can create different keyboards. So what we
ve got on this screen is there are three folders right now. The middle folder that says templates,
that s the one that comes with it, and then you can start adding your own keyboards as
you go. You can do anything with these keyboards. We can make these keyboards we can make the
keys larger, we can change the size. We can change the color, we can change the font.
We can add pictures. I m just going to pull up one keyboard to show you kind of something
that I ve done with it. This is one called weather. I open up that keyboard, if you look
toward the bottom of this, you re going to see it s a keyboard that I created that has
a set a couple of phrases to start sentences, followed by images on the bottom. If you look
at the top, this is in our editing keyboard mode. We ve got numbers, letters, punctuation.
We can add those to different pieces of the keyboard here. I m going to show you m going
to go back to the home page quickly, and I m going to show you how what a blank keyboard
looks like, and then how we can kind of mess around with that. So I m going to go first,
I m going to hit add. Well, let s I guess take a look first at the grouped big keys.
If I hit that big key folder, what you should be able to see there is I ve created four
keyboards where I ve made the keys larger, and easier to hit. And I want to add my fifth
keyboard that s going to have X, Y, and Z on it. The way I would do this then, is I
m going to close that. I m going to hit the add button up in the top left corner, the
plus key, and it s going to show me a new keyboard sitting there. I m going to take
and hold on that keyboard, and I m going to drag it, and I m going to drop it on top of
my grouped big keys folder. When I do that, it should disappear into there, so that we
can now now it s in that folder. So then I open up my grouped big keys folder, you re
going to see my previous four keyboards, and you re going to see my new keyboard over there.
If I tap the new keyboard, this is going to open up a template for what the keyboard is
going to look like. You look across the bottom of this page, you re going to have basically
your standard iPad keyboard layout. Up across the top, we re going to have a whole bunch
of different letters, numbers, punctuations, that we can then add to the keyboard at the
bottom. So what I want to do here is I want to make keys bigger. I m building this keyboard
for a student that needs keys in a larger size. So I m going to take and I m going to
tap two keys. You re going to see they re going to turn blue when I tap each one of
them. And then if you look toward the middle here, at the button that s got two arrows
pointing together, if I tap that, it merges those two keys together into one larger key.
You can only merge two keys at a time, so I m going to continue to do that. m going
to continue to tap keys, and then I m going to merge them, and I m going to do that again.
It might take a second to catch up with these. All I m doing is tapping on different keys,
and merging them together, so that we can create one large key out of these. We re doing
six re ultimately merging six keys together to make one large key. I m going to do that
ll just do that three times here, so I m going to continue. If it takes a second to catch
up, eventually it will. All I m doing, again, is tapping two keys, and then merging them
together. I m going to do that for three keys here, so that we have our X, Y, and Z, remember
is what we re trying to add to our keyboard. m going to add that X, Y, and Z. I will merge
those three together. Okay, so now that I ve merged those keys together, if I wanted
to get rid of the rest of the keys to the right of those three big keys, you select
one and hit the trash can, it removes it. So we could get rid of all of those if we
wanted to. Now to add something to that key, to each of these keys, I m going to tap on
a key, and you re going to make it blue. And then I m going to go and tap the letter that
I want to add to it. Now when I tap a letter, it could be a letter, it could be a phrase,
it could be a number. We could put anything into this that we wanted to. I m going to
put X. I m going to put Y. Then I m going to hop over one last one, and I m going to
add Z to this one. Now I ve got my three things in there. Those are very small representations
of those letters, so we can change the size of those. To change the size, you tap the
double A button here, and it s going to give you a slider bar. I m going to take that slider
bar and I will slide it back toward the high end, and it s going to change the size of
those keys for me. The other thing we can do here is we can change the background color
of these keys. To change colors, you see the three the red, green, and blue dots there,
if we tap that, that gives us access to colors for the text, for the background, and for
the grid, and it gives us lots of different colors. You look on the bottom, it says apply
only to selected keys, so we could make if we turned that on, we could make each key
a different color if we wanted to, the background and the text within that key. We could make
it a different color, if our student had a visual impairment and needed the keys to stand
out a certain way. m going to leave that off right now because I want to make the background
of all of these keys yellow, to make them stand out a little bit more. I m going to
leave the text color black. If I want to change the text color, I would just tap text up here.
If I want to change the grid color, I d tap grid. I m going to leave it on background,
and I m going to choose this bright yellow over here. When I do that, you should see
all of my background is turned to yellow, so I have done that. If we look across here,
we could change with this F button here, we can change the font of the we can change the
different we can change the font of the keys. We can change and I ll show you in a little
bit how we can add audio or images to these keys. We can put those keys together. We can
unmerge keys. In fact, let s merge a couple of these keys together and add an image, just
to show you how that s done. m going to go back in here and choose two keys, and merge
them together. I m going to choose two keys again and merge them together, and do that
one more time to get a large key. I m going to select that key, and then I m going to
go to the button next to the microphone. That is going to give me access to the iPad library
or the Abilipad library. Within the Abilipad library, we have some images that are available
through Abilipad. Within the iPad library, we ve got access to any picture that we ve
taken on here. I am going to go to the Abilipad library, and we will just let s put one of
these let s put the bear in there. If we choose the bear picture, it s going to add that to
our key. Now what we probably want to do is tap within that key, and type the word bear
in as well because it s not going to do anything if it s just a picture of a bear, but if we
type the word bear, now if we were to select that key, it would add the bear. It would
type bear for us. Okay, so we ve got our keyboard the way that we want it here. I m going to
go and hit the home button up at the top. It s going to take me back to my main page,
and it s going to have all these keyboards that we ve created. Now, since I want this
to show up in order, I m going to tap on this keyboard and hold it down, and I m going to
move it after the T. It s not going to move. Sorry. It s going to take us out. I ll let
you come back here. What we re going to do here is we re going to rename that keyboard
so that it comes after the T, and to rename it, I m going to tap where it says new keyboard,
and we ll get access to the entire name of that keyboard. We ll just select it all, and
we ll call this X. That s what starts it. Then I ll hit done, and now you ll see my
layout. It layouts A, G, L, T, X, so I ve got that laid out the way I want. Now let
s look at notepads. m going to close my keyboards. I m going to choose notepads, and you see
there I have one notepad. It s an example that s set up. If I choose examples and open
up that notepad, I have my keyboards connected to this. If we look down at the bottom now,
there s five dots. Down at the bottom here, there s five dots. That indicates that there
s five keyboards connected together. What it s using is every keyboard within that folder
that we made. If I wanted to type my name, Jim, I could scroll slide from right to left
across here and change keyboards. And I have a big key there now for J. I ll tap the J.
It ll type the J. You can see here, it starts to predict what I m trying to write. There
s my word prediction up to the top right of the keyboard. I m going to tap the I, and
we ll let those change. You re going to see, there s Jim in there right now. If you want
to listen to one of these, you can tap on the bubble. This is where it gets a little
bit sensitive. If you tap on the bubble, it plays back in an audio format what s on there.
If you tap on the word, it speaks it and enters it into our document. It also runs spell check,
so if we spell something incorrectly, let s say we spelled giraffe J-I, and then we
ll scroll over to another keyboard and we ll say R, and we ll scroll back two keyboards
to A, and we ll say A, and then we ll scroll one more keyboard. Oops, I didn't put F in
my keyboard, so we re not going to be able to add the F from here. But you can see here
it hash it does put this is not predicting anymore. It s trying to correct on the right
side, so or on the left side, so spell checking comes up on the left side. Word prediction
comes up on the right side. I apologize for that. But you see here the idea being I can
use I can create these keyboards, I can use multiple keyboard together. I can change colors,
I can change sizes. I can change keyboards as well, so if I was done using this keyboard,
I can go up to the gear area here, tap on that, that s our settings, and it s going
to give me several options, the first one being keyboards. I m going to choose keyboards,
and I can use the folder for the grouped big keys like I was. I could use the templates,
or I can use weather. I m going to go to this weather one. Within this weather one now,
I created this one where I merged keys together and added phrases and pictures, and also recorded
things into this. Remember, when we were working with the keyboard, there s a little record
button. You can record your voice into one of these buttons. So now with this, we could
have our students doing a unit on weather. They might be struggling with writing. We
can give them everything they need right there, and they could play they could tap on today
it is, and then choose let s say sunny, and you could hear that was me speaking because
I recorded the word sunny onto that as well, so it would play back when I added that into
my document. Then I can hit the period, and then if I go up to the top right corner, there
s a speech bubble there, and I tap that, it ll read that back and highlight as it reads.
That was a little bit slow, the voice was a little bit poor, but it does there s our
read back, so we ve got our read back, we ve got our word prediction, we ve got our
spell check, we ve got our customizable keyboards here. Let me show you just a few more of the
setting options, if we go up into settings. So we saw keyboards as an option. Let me look
at preferences quickly here. I m sorry, look at pages quickly. If I tap pages, you ll see
the page that I m typing within. If I select that page, now I ve got some options across
the bottom of the screen. And here, I can change the size through the same way we did
it on the keyboard. I can change the size, hitting the double A button down at the bottom,
and dragging that cursor across. I can change the font if I want. There are several different
fonts. And here s what we can do, if we have students that struggle seeing black on white,
we could change our text to maybe maybe being yellow text. And so we ll grab this little
crosshairs, and drag it up into the yellow area. Then we ll go down to the bottom slider
and we ll take that point and drag it all the way to yellow. Maybe yellow on black is
what this student needs. Then we ll hit choose. You ll see our text has changed to yellow.
Then if we hit our little three dot color button, then we can change our background
by sliding that bottom thing over to the black, and change our background color to black,
and hit choose. Then we re going to see it s going to show up as yellow on black. So
now, if I hit the settings button, it s going to take me back, and it s going to change
that paper, so that the background color is black, the text color is yellow. It might
stand out a little bit easier, be a little bit easier to see. Just a few more things
in settings, and then we ll be done here. If we look at preferences, we can change we
can turn word prediction, spell check, on and off. We could have it speak as we type.
We could have it speak sentences, words, keys. We can change the rate of speech. You heard
mine was a little bit slow. I could crank that up if I wanted to. Under voice, we ve
got several different voices that we could choose, yeah, different accents that we could
choose there. We can share these things via email. We can print them as well. And I will
point out one other thing with Abilipad here, if we go back to the home area I know this
is all moving kind of quick and I go to keyboards, and I hit the arrow key in the top left, I
can access things via Dropbox or the Abilipad library. What the Abilipad library is, is
it takes us to a website that has pre-made keyboards that other people have shared, that
you can then go and download. Here, we ll change it to the keyboard corner here, and
you can see there s different keyboards that you can download, and then use on your own
before you even go make them. So this is a pretty well-rounded app. Their new update
has made this a very, very nice easy-to-use tool. We can make as many different keyboards
as we want. We can link them to as many different notepads that we want, and we can have different
student we have the same student using several different keyboards throughout the day. A
downside to this is that it only I mean these keyboards are only going to work within Abilipad,
so it s not going to be something that s going to work if you want to open up the internet
and have the student search for things on the internet through Safari using a keyboard.
It s not changing the main keyboard within the iPad. It s just making it so that we can
write with an adapted keyboard within Abilipad. Overall, it s a very good app. I d certainly
recommend it, and I d be glad to answer any questions if anybody ever had them on there,
but that s Abilipad. Good luck using it, and I hope it works out well for you. [End of
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