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Beret Study Buddy: Vocabulary
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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
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There are 5 square buildings on the main screen.
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All Words
Quiz
Guess?
Word Find
Tic-Tac-Toe
There are 3 oval tutorial bubbles on the main screen.
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Help!
Setup
Stats
Main Screen View
All
Words
Quiz
1st stop
Guess?
Help!
Word
Find
Set up
Tic-TacToe
Stats
The “All Words” Building
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This is the building you tap into to create and
manage your lists of words.
You can tap into:
 All words
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This shows all the words in your word list.
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This will let you add a new word to your list.
New
Copy
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This will let you copy words from one list to another list.
Add a new list
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This lets you create a new list.
“All Words” Screen Layout
All Words
Default List
Find:_________________
Done
New
copy
Add New List
The “Quiz” Building
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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
Start
Quit
CLUE: An animal with black and white stripes.
A. dog
B. cheetah
C. zebra
Done
The “Guess” Game
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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.
ABCDEFGH
IJKLMNOP
QRSTUVW
XYZ
Answer:***
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The “Word Find” Game
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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 00:00
AKLPJDILDBBLDIUDFHA
CATJFIANCLBNDUIUOIG
HFUIPDUIFYPAIHFEOUV
Done
cat
Found ___ out of ___
The “Tic-Tac-Toe” Game
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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
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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
Partners
handheld
infrared
is O
Score:__
Help!
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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
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Help Topics (Tap on for Help)
Table of Contents
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Introduction
View All Words
How to add a word
Creating a new word list
Removing a word list
Game setup
Etc…..
Stats
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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
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Date
5/25/06
Correct/Total=%
10/10= 100%
Setup
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The setup bubble brings you to a
screen that lets the teacher determine
aspects of the game, such as;
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Time allowed to answer questions
Volume
Difficulty level for tic-tac-toe
Number of quiz questions
Setup Layout
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Guess? Timeout: 1 2 3 min.
How good is Herbert at Tic-Tac-Toe
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Easy
Good
Great
Volume: Off Low Med High
Word Find Scrolls
Number of quiz questions:___
Keep quizzes for ___ days.
Done
Let’s Practice
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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
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To add a new word list:
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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
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Now that you have a word list created, go
ahead and play the game of your choice.
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Play each game for approximately 7 min.
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I’ll let you know when to switch games.
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When all three games have been played, we
will go to the statistics and evaluate how you
did.