Beret Study Buddy: Vocabulary Beret Study Buddy: Vocabulary is a vocabulary program that can be used in your classroom to motivate students to practice and learn content vocabulary words. This program keeps track of word lists and uses the words in these lists for games.

Main Screen There are 5 square buildings on the main screen. All Words Quiz Guess? Word Find Tic-Tac-Toe There are 3 oval tutorial bubbles on the main screen. Help! Setup Stats

Main Screen View All Words 1 st stop Quiz Guess? Word Find Tic-Tac- Toe Stats Set upHelp!

The “All Words” Building This is the building you tap into to create and manage your lists of words. You can tap into: All words This shows all the words in your word list. New This will let you add a new word to your list. Copy This will let you copy words from one list to another list. Add a new list This lets you create a new list.

“All Words” Screen Layout All WordsDefault List Find:_________________ copy DoneNewAdd New List

The “Quiz” Building This building lets you take a matching quiz. You will read the given definition and then tap on the correct answer choice. Tap on the forward arrow for the next definition.

The “Quiz” Screen Layout Quiz CLUE: An animal with black and white stripes. A. dog B. cheetah C. zebra StartQuit Done

The “Guess” Game This is a game in which you have to guess the letters for the word that matches the definition. Guess all the right letters before Herbert runs out of suitcases.

The “Guess” Game Layout Guess 00:00 CLUE: An animal that barks. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Answer:***

The “Word Find” Game Word Find is a word search game in which the students have to find the words hidden in the letters on the screen. When you locate a word, tap on the beginning letter and the ending letter to select it. Tap on the pop-up screen in the upper right-hand corner and a list will appear to show you a list of all the words in the word list.

The “Word Find” Game Layout Word Find 00:00cat AKLPJDILDBBLDIUDFHA CATJFIANCLBNDUIUOIG HFUIPDUIFYPAIHFEOUV Found ___ out of ___ Done

The “Tic-Tac-Toe” Game To play this tic-tac-toe game, you have to answer a question correctly to earn the square. You have 3 choices to play tic-tac-toe You and a friend can take turns using one handheld. You can play against the handheld. You can play against another handheld using infrared.

The “Tic-Tac-Toe” Game Layout Tic Tac Toe Player 1 is X Score:__ Player 2 is O Score:__ Partners handheld infrared

Help! The help tutorial bubble brings you to a screen that lists a table of contents. Tap on a word in the table of contents. The help tutorial will link you to a step by step process in order to help you answer your questions about the program.

Help Layout Help Topics (Tap on for Help) Table of Contents Introduction View All Words How to add a word Creating a new word list Removing a word list Game setup Etc…..

Stats This bubble will take you to a screen that will keep track of the last 10 times you ran Study Buddy. The Stats page keeps track of the number of problems correct and the number of problems attempted. This screen is valuable for the teacher in evaluating how the students performed.

Stats Layout DateCorrect/Total=% 5/25/06 10/10= 100%

Setup The setup bubble brings you to a screen that lets the teacher determine aspects of the game, such as; Time allowed to answer questions Volume Difficulty level for tic-tac-toe Number of quiz questions

Setup Layout Guess? Timeout: min. How good is Herbert at Tic-Tac-Toe EasyGood Great Volume: Off Low Med High Word Find Scrolls Number of quiz questions:___ Keep quizzes for ___ days. Done

Let’s Practice Now that you have seen an overview of how the Study Buddy Vocabulary program works, lets create a word list so we can play each of the three games.

How to Create a List To add a new word list: Tap on “Add New List” on the “All words” screen Enter a name for the list Tap on the “OK” button Now you can start entering in your new words and definitions. Go ahead and enter 7 words and definitions.

TIME FOR FUN Now that you have a word list created, go ahead and play the game of your choice. Play each game for approximately 7 min. I’ll let you know when to switch games. When all three games have been played, we will go to the statistics and evaluate how you did.