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Clicker 6.16 (Win/Mac) Creating a Custom Stamping Activity in Clicker 6 Introduction You can create custom stamping activities in Clicker 6 using the default stamps or by adding your own that are topic specific. These fun activities provide an interactive multimedia learning environment for students. The stamping activities allow the student to stamp pictures that relate to a topic onto a background. Being able to participate and create a stamped activity provides them with an opportunity to show what they know about a topic visually. Stamping activities will allow the student to create dazzling pieces (related to a topic) independently in Clicker 6. This tutorial assumes…

• The Clicker 6 program is installed on your computer. • You know how to navigate Clicker 6. • You know how to Edit a Clicker Set. • You have saved images for the activity in a file in My Computer-My Documents-My

Pictures (for a Mac, Finder-Pictures) or you know how to locate the desired images from the libraries in Clicker 6

Learning Objectives Completion of this tutorial will give you experience with the following:

• Locating and opening a Clicker Book Making template. • Moving from Run mode to Edit mode to customize a Clicker Set. • Changing the Standard Buttons to All Buttons – Silk. • Working with the General and Tools features in the Clicker Paint Details window. • Removing current stamps from the stamp display window. • Creating and adding new stamps either from Crick Pictures, PCS library, photos or

other libraries.

Case Study Sam is a grade 3 student studying forest animals. He needs to create a drawing for his project. He cannot use a pencil and will rely on the stamp tools in Clicker Paint to create a picture and demonstrate his knowledge for his class assignment.


Selecting and Initial Set Up of Activity

1

Open Clicker 6.

Double-click on the Clicker 6 icon to open the program.

2

Select an activity. Before we can create a custom stamping activity we need an activity and a topic. For the purposes of this tutorial the Writing book activity will be used and the topic for this tutorial will be forest animals. With Clicker 6 open, locate Make a Clicker Set and click on it. The New Clicker Set window opens.

Locate the Quick Page Wizards

Select Writing book.


3

Set up how users will add pictures

to their book.

The New Clicker Set window opens.

Under Picture Support deselect

1. Browse for pictures on the

computer or network, 2. Paint

pictures with the paint tools,

and 3.Take photos with the

webcam.

Click Next to continue. Please Note: This is one of the most important steps. You must make sure that you deselect the three areas of how users will add pictures to the activity.

4

Making changes to the layout.

The New Clicker Set window opens.

Optional: You can make changes to

how your layout will look: choose the

sound options for the pages, number

of pages and type of layout. Or click

on More Options to make changes

to Page tools, Background or

Font.

For the purposes of this activity the

only necessary change to make to

the layout is to the Number of

pages.

Click on the pull down beside

Number of pages and change

the number of pages from 8 to 1.

Click Create when finished.

Deselect how users will add pictures to their book.


5

The blank Writing book activity

opens.

Editing the Clicker Set

1

Editing a Clicker Set.

In order to make changes and add

the stamps to the activity you need

to move from the activity to edit

mode.

Click on Edit Clicker Set. It is

located in the bottom left hand

corner.

The Edit Clicker Set turns from

grey to orange. You can now edit

the Clicker Set.

2

View Sequence of Book.

Click on the Outline tab to

view how the book will look.

For the purposes of this activity the

book that was created has a title

page and one other page.

The title page is greyed out. This

indicates that the stamps are going

to be added to it. If you want the

stamps to be added to the first

page you have to select it.


3

Add Paint button to page.

The first thing that you need to do

in Edit a Clicker Set is add a Paint

button to the page(s) in the book.

Click on the Objects tab. It

opens to the Standard set of

buttons.

Click on the pull down arrow

to the right and

select All Buttons – Silk.

From the All Buttons – Silk

locate the Paint icon.

Click to select it and drag it

onto the page.

4

Change Paint button colour.

The button that was dragged to the

page was red. You might want to

change its colour to match the

other buttons on the page.

Click on the button to select it.

Locate Color on the

Appearance tab.

Click on the pull down arrow to

the right of the colour and

select the colour that matches

the colour of the other buttons.

In this example green is

selected to match the other

buttons.

Please Note: That there are 3 tabs. This will change once you add the Paint button.


5

Accessing the Paint options.

If you don’t see 5 tabs

(Appearance, Sound & Video,

Open, Arrange and Click & Edit)

click on the Paint icon to select it.

The four handles appear on the

Paint icon indicating that the Paint

properties are available and the

tabs located above the page

change from 3 to 5.

Click on the Open tab. Directly

beneath the tab is a window.

The text in the window should

read, Open Paint.

Click on More Options to open

the Paint Options window.

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Making changes to the Paint

Options.

The Paint Options window opens.

There are 5 icons; General, Tools,

Colors, Sticky Points and

Advanced.

For the purposes of this tutorial

changes will be made to features in

General, Tools and Advanced.

5 Tabs


6a

Making changes to the General

Paint Options.

With the Paint Options window

open select the General icon.

Click on the pull down arrow

beside No Location in Send to

and

Select Cells and then click on

mainCell.

Please Note: Selecting the

mainCell is an important step. If

you don’t select it your activity will

not work.


6b

Add picture to Assistant Layer. Next add a picture to the Assistant Layer.

Click on Choose Picture.... In this example we are going to select a picture of a mountain with a forest in the background from the Mountains folder from the Crick Picture Library 3.

Once you have located the desired picture select it (it turns blue) and click Insert. This picture will be placed in the background.

Your picture is now added to the Assistant Layer. *Make sure that both the Save assistant layer with painting and the Assistant Layer Position is Underneath painting is checked.


6c

Adding a Prompt.

Optional: If you want you can add a

text prompt to display, select No

Sound or Video, Speak Text

Prompt, Speak this…. or Play

recorded sound or video…

In this example, the text prompt

‘Stamp some forest animals on

the picture’ was added.

7

Making changes to the Tools

Paint Options.

You are almost finished. Only a

few more steps to go.

With the Paint Options window

open select Tools. All the

tools are displayed.

7a

Select tools to display in the activity. You have to deselect the tools that you will not use in this activity.

Click on a tool to deselect it. For this activity keep selected: Stamp, Eraser, Flip/Rotate and Undo/Redo.

Click on the Default Tool and select the Stamp Tool. The Stamp tool is now the Default Tool.


7b

Removing Default Stamps.

Before you can add your stamps

you have to remove the default

stamps. Do this by clicking on the

double reverse arrow.

The default stamps have been

removed and the Stamps List is

now empty.

*Note: Don’t worry; you have not

removed the default images

permanently. You are only

removing them for this activity.

7c

Adding custom stamps. You are now ready to add the desired pictures for the activity to the stamp list. Please Note: It will make it easier for you if you know where you will take the pictures from before you start the activity. You can choose pictures from a variety of sources. You can use pictures that you have collected and saved in a folder on your Desktop, My Documents, flash drive or any of the picture libraries you have installed. In this example we are going to the Crick Picture Library 3 and opening the Animal Life folder.


The pictures from the folder appear in the Browse Picture Files window. The bear, cougar, deer, fox, moose, and wolf will be used for this activity. Locate bear and select it. It turns blue. Tap the single forward arrow. The bear now appears in the Stamp List. Continue doing this until all 6 stamps have been added to the Stamps List. Tip: If you are going to do several stamping activities it is better to have the pictures available in a folder so you don’t have to search for them each time. You can also add all the pictures by selecting all of them in your folder instead of adding them individually.

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Making changes to the

Advanced Paint Options.

Click on the Advanced icon.

Select Last picture completed

in Clicker Paint. Click OK

when finished.

You are now ready to check your

activity.


Checking Activity

1

Return to activity.

Click on Edit Clicker Set to get

out of edit mode and return the

activity to run mode. Edit Clicker

Set changes from orange to grey.

2

Test your activity to make sure that it functions correctly.

Make sure that the Stamp tool is selected. If it isn’t select it.

Select the animal(s) you want to add and stamp them on the background.

When you have finished testing the stamps click on the check mark to move from Clicker Paint to the book.

3

Saving Gridset and removing stamps from the gridset. Now that you know that the activity works click on the paint icon and go back into Paint and remove the stamps you stamped on the background.

Click on the Eraser tool that is located left of the picture. Once you click the Eraser the Stamps on the left of the picture disappear and are


replaced by the Clear All tool.

Click on Clear All to remove the stamps.

Click on the checkmark to return to the activity.

4

Save the Clicker Set

Click on ClickerSet, choose Save Clicker Set. The Save Clicker Set window opens.

Type a file name for your activity.

Click Save when finished.

5

The activity is now ready to be used with your student. Now that the stamped picture is added to the page you are ready to use it with your student. Have the student use the stamps to add stamps to the picture. Once they have added stamps to the picture have them type or record some information about the picture. In this example the sentence, ‘These animals live in the forest’, was typed.


6

Add additional stamping pages to the book. To create additional custom stamping activities or pages repeat the same process as above. If you want to use the same pictures throughout the book copy the Paint button and paste it to the additional pages in the book. The stamps you created for the one page will be copied to each page the button is pasted onto. You can change the text prompts to create a variety of activities using different concepts e.g. Add a large moose and a small wolf to the picture; add 3 wolves and 2 deer to the picture, stamp one animal that rhymes with goose and one that rhymes with box on the picture etc. Congratulations! You have just created some new stamps for your student to use in their Clicker activities.

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Wondering what other types of activities you can create using Clicker Paint? Get some ideas by checking out the following stamping activities located in the SET BC Learning Center and curriculumSET.

Maps

Whales

Salmon

Character and Setting Stamp

Activity

Variety of Story Maps

http://www.setbc.org/curriculumset/Resource.aspx?id=1013





