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Getting Started:
1. Open IntelliPics
2. Go to "File" and select "New"
3. Assign a title to your new file
4. Go to "Options" menu and select "Activities Preferences"
5. Turn off all visible palattes (i.e. none should have a check in
their box)
6. Go to the "Create" menu and select "Picture Items"
7. Select "New"
8. Enter a name for the picture (To arrange pictures in sequential
order, start the name of the first picture with "a)", the second with "b)",
etc.
9. Go to the "Edit Menu" and select "Picture Library"
10. Choose a picture
11. Select "copy" (Command-C)
12. Select "paste" (Command-V)
To Edit Picture Items:
1. Go to "Create" Menu
2. Go to "Picture Items"
3. Select the item to edit
4. Click on "Edit"
To Add New Picture Items:
1. Go to "Create" menu
2. Go to "Picture Items"
3. Select "New"
To Add Movement:
1. Click on "Movement"
2. Select a movement
3. Click on "Done"
To Add Captioning:
1. Click on "Advanced"
2. Go to "Caption"
3. Type in text
4. Click on "Done"
To Add Digitized Sound:
1. Select "Sound"
2. Select "Digitized"
3. Click on "New"
4. Click on "OK"
5. Speak into the microphone
6. Click on "Stop" (or record) when finished speaking
7. Click on "Save"
To Make a Picture Larger:
1. Click on "Advanced"
2. Go to "Scaling"
3. Change # to a larger #
4. Click on "Done"
To Use the Mouse Click to Advance Frames:
1. Go to "Options" menu
2. Select "Activity Preferences"
3. Click and hold on "Palatte Display"
4. Go to "Click Response"
5. Click on "Goes to next item"
6. Click "OK"
Copyright © 1998 Maro/Tufte A Potpourri of AAC Intervention Ideas
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Changing Cursor Features in Windows '95
1. Point, click and hold the "Start" button
2. Go to "Settings" and open the "Control Panel" folder
3. Double click on "Mouse"
4. Click on the file folder tab labeled "Pointers"
5. Click and hold the down arrow next to the message bar in the
"Schemes" menu.
6. Select a new pointer such as "Windows Standard (extra large)"
7. Click on "Apply"
Adding "Pointer Trails"
1. Click on the "Motion" tab in the "Mouse" control panel
2. Click on "Show Pointer Trails"
3. Click on "Apply"
Changing How Text is Displayed in Windows '95
1. Go to "Control Panels" and double click on "Accessibility
Options"
2. Click on the "Display" tab
3. Click on "Use High Contrast"
4. Click on "Settings" and experiment with different options
5. Click on "OK"
6. Click on "Apply"
More Accessibility Options!
Visit the TRACE Center web site at: http://trace.wisc.edu/world/computer_access/
© 1999 Maro
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Requirements:
- Macintosh files (IntelliPics or Overlay Maker) that you wish to convert
to PC Windows
- The program IntelliTools Converter (get from: PC version
of IntelliPics, internet at www.intellitools.com, or IntelliTools Web
Activity Exchange, CD Volume 3 (look in Training Materials folder,
then Utilities folder)
- Access to Macintosh computer that can access both Mac & PC files
and disks (must be higher model than a Performa) - samples: Power
Mac, G3
- PC formatted floppy disk (note: other options for transferring
are described on the Read Me file in the InetlliTools Converter program)
Instructions:
1) Make sure the file(s) that you want to convert are on the hard drive
of your Mac
2) Install the IntelliTools Converter program on your Macintosh
computer
3) Place PC formatted disk in your disk drive
4) Open IntelliTools Converter
5) Select the program that you want to convert (you may have to move
from file to file)
6) Click <open>
7) Make sure that you are saving to your PC formatted disk (be sure
the name of the disk is showing at the top of the destination folder),
then click <save>
8) Continue converting as long as necessary!
Problems?
This is the quick and easy instruction set! If you need more
help, see the "Read Me" file that accompanies the IntelliTools Converter
program. For example, that file helps you consider other places
to store or share the converted files, in case the converted file won't
fit on a single disk (you might want to use a zip, send through the Internet,
etc.)
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1 Open IntelliPics
2. Go to the Finder (top right of screen) and choose Finder, then choose
Hide Others
3.Open up the quicktime movie by either
a) launching Movie Player (usually in the Applications folder) choose File, Open . . .find the movie you want and click Open4.Go to Edit, choose Select All, then choose Copy
Or
b) double click on the movie and wait for a dialog box to come up asking what application you want to open it in. Choose either quicktime, movie player, or another application that can open quicktime movies such as Adobe Premier or QuickCam software.
---please note. You will need a version of movie player that can "select
all" frames. Some versions have left out editing features. Version 2.5
has these features. - it can be found on the IntelliTools Web CD
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1. Open IntelliPics
2. Select Create Picture Items
3. Select New, name it
4. Go to the Finder, Hide Others
5. Double click on the icon of the picture you want to bring in
6. A dialog box will come up asking what application you want to open
the graphic in
--you can choose Simple Text, Picture Viewer, or an application such
as Adobe Photo
Deluxe which will open digital pictures
7. Under Edit choose Select All, then choose Copy
8. Go back to IntelliPics and choose Paste
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The example I am using for ClarisWorks uses the "What is Space" overlay
on the IntelliTools Web CD. In IntelliPics I first created a picture item
,gave it a name and under Advanced, Frame Animation turned on Frame Animation.
Without closing IntelliPics I opened KidPix, drew the background of the
sky at night with the stars, copied the picture and Pasted it as the Picture
in IP. At this point do not click on Done. I then went back to KidPix
and using the move features moved the shooting star (or the moon, sun,
etc.) to a different spot and flood filled the space where I had taken
the shooting star from with the same color as the background. I then copied
this new picture, went back to IP and pasted it on top of the last one.
With frame animation on you will see the slider bar is now activated showing
that more than one picture is pasted in. I continued going back and forth
to KidPix, moving the shooting star a little further, copying the picture
and pasting it in to IP. Click on Done when finished. if the movie runs
too slow or fast go back and choose Create, Picture Items, Edit, --choose
the item, and under Advanced, Frame Animation drag the slider on the Frame
flipping speed bar.
The same can also be done in ClarisWorks. Using "Painting" instead of Word Processing, paste in a picture. Using the selection tool - either the square with the dashed lines around or the lariat draw a box around the object, choose copy and paste it into IntelliPics. Go back to ClarisWorks. Select the object again and under Transform - top of menu - choose Rotate, move the picture and then copy and bring back to IntelliPics to paste in. Or you can move a part of the picture -- as in Kid Pix and copy the whole picture again, pasting into IntelliPics, and repeating the same process as described above using KidPix.
Daniel Herlihy - Connective Technology Solutions
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In ClarisWorks to create the macro to automatically run the slide show:
1. Go to File, Macros, record macro
2. In the next screen click in the Option+Command +Key button and in
the box press 1 on your keyboard ( putting a 1 in the box) - this will
become the key content in the overlay later on
3.Click record
4.Go to Window (on menu bar) choose Slide Show, click Start
5.While in the slide show hold down the Shift+Command (Apple Key) +
J keys - this will stop the recording macro
6. Press the ESC key to quit the slide show
Your macro is now recorded that will go right to the slide show option
7. In Overlay Maker create 3 buttons, one with the key content of Option
Command 1--no commas, this will be the button that starts the slide show
feature (the macro you wrote)
8. Create the other button with a key content of Return
--this button will run it
9. Create a button with the content a mouse click
10. Create a button with the content of q esc - this stops the show
- paste esc from the specials box
11. The last two buttons to quit entirely are Command q - to close
ClarisWorks and Command d - to not save any changes and finish quitting
At this point you will have to open the adapted book for the student in ClarisWorks before running it. The final steps to put the ability to open the adapted book completely in the students hands uses a program called Fun Keys, a keyboard mapping program. It allows you to use the F1-F12 keys to launch an application. You would use it to launch the Claris file and the key content for that file on the overlay is the Function key you chose.
Dan Herlihy - Connective Technology Solutions
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