visual guide Manage Users Play a SpellDown View Grade Reports
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visual guide Manage Users Play a SpellDown View Grade Reports
SpellDown visual guide Version 3.4 Create a Spelling List P. 2 Manage Users P. 4 Play a SpellDown P. 5 Play HangBee P. 6 View Grade Reports P. 7 List Sharing P. 8 F.A.Q P. 9 version 3.4 9/22/11 2 SpellDown creating a spelling list • tap inside to bring up the keyboard; enter the words • hit 'build my list' Tips: • you can change the audio, after you create the list • you can type up your words in email (or some other program) and then do cut&paste from your email to SpellDown. Just make sure each word is separated with a comma. • see the FAQ page for more options for EZ list maker 3 SpellDown editing a spelling list The dictionary holds all your words in one convenient place SpellDown comes with sample lists In this example, the word "meow" has two audio files. For this list, the audio is "What the cat says". It also has two definitions. Hit Record to record your own voice saying the word Hit Fetch to download the audio from the Internet In this example, the word "Maine" has two audio files. For this list, the audio is "Augusta". But for a different list you could choose the audio "Maine" Tips: • SpellDown makes it easy to organize "indirect" spelling lists... where the audio is NOT of the word itself, but of something else. A good example would be state capitals where the word to spell is the capital, but the audio is the state. See the FAQ page for creating these lists easily. 4 SpellDown creating/managing users tap to change color Tips: • users allow you to share a device among several people 5 SpellDown playing a spelldown (spelling bee) select a user s e le c t a tap on letter to change to cap (or accent) drag or type letters in place lis t swipe letter to delete it once you spell the word, hit the check icon to see if you're correct the report comes up after the SpellDown 6 SpellDown playing hangbee see preferences to bring up the speaker use the * key to match non-letter characters 7 SpellDown viewing reports tap on any red box to see the misspellings 8 SpellDown Sharing Bees Tips: • Both devices must bring up Sharing • Bump to connect, means lightly bump both devices together. • Both devices must already be using the same wireless network. 9 SpellDown F.A.Q. How can I create a Spelling List easily? The EZ list maker allows a few options for creating lists: Formats (version 3.3 and above) • words can be separated with a comma: apple,pear,banana • use a ':' to separate the spelling from the audio: Wisconsin:Madison, Delaware:Dover, Vermont:Montpelier In this example the word "Wisconsin" would have the audio "Madison" • use a third colons to add a definition: a::1st letter, b::2nd letter Here's what I used to create a N.E. Capitals list: Maine:Augusta, New Hampshire:Concord, Vermont:Montpelier, New York:Albany, Pennsylvania:Harrisburg, New Jersey:Trenton, Connecticut:Hartford, Rhode Island:Providence, Massachusetts:Boston, Delaware:Dover, Maryland:Annapolis Also, to save typing type, use cut & paste (e.g between some other application like mail and SpellDown). Sometimes audio doesn't work. Be sure to check in the Settings App that Sound->Ringer VolumeVolume is set on high. When your phone is muted, the ringer volume can be automatically set off. SpellDown About Hello Spellers, SpellDown was written to help my third grader with his weekly spelling lists. Despite my best efforts, "it's no doodle jump" was the result. If you have a suggestion to improve SpellDown, please email me at [email protected]. If you find SpellDown useful, I would sincerely appreciate your taking the time to rate it highly (and review it too). If you don't like it, please let me know perhaps I can help improve it. Thanks mike [email protected] http://twitter.com/iSpellDown List of most requested features (i.e. my todo list): • standard keyboard spelling bee • flash card mode/game • word analysis (view spelling mistakes) • make tests that involve only words frequently misspelled • when completed a bee, allow the option to re-do the test but only for the missed words