May 27
In a previous posting, I explained how to add an image to a page in your Tobors Books. This time, I will tell you how you can have your child draw his or her own pictures for their books.
The button to use to do this is the one that looks like three crayons.
When you click it, the picture portion of the Page Area of BookMaker will be blank and the area beneath it (on the right side of the screen) will look something like this.
This is not a sophisticated drawing program. It is meant to allow a child to create a simple image on his/her own. Continue reading »
May 25
In this posting I am going to explain to you exactly how to create a typical (generic) page for a Tobors Book.
There are 5 Tab Buttons across the top. Four of them are numbered, for convenience sake. The Select Panel is what was displayed when you started Tobors BookMaker. It gave you three possible choices: NEW, CHANGE and COPY. They have already been explained. Continue reading »
May 25
The final button you can choose when you have started Tobors BookMaker is the COPY or TEMPLATE Button. If you click this button, you can make a copy of any Tobors Book that you have on your computer. You WILL be making a NEW Book that is a COPY of one of the old boks on your computer.
Why would you want to do that? There are a couple of reasons. Continue reading »
May 25
The second choice you have when you start Tobors BookMaker is to CHANGE or EDIT a book that already exists.
When you click this button, you will be shown a visual menu in the centre area of the screen. It will be a scrollable ‘list’ of the book cover images of all of the Tobors Books that you have on your computer. Continue reading »
May 25
The first thing that you will have to do when you start to write a Tobors Book is decide whether you want to write a NEW book, CHANGE a book that already exists, or COPY a book. Here’s what thse three buttons look like. Each of them have a simple animation that happens when you move your mouse over them to try to simplify things for a child. Tobors BookMaker also includes audio help to make it easier for children. The audio help can be aggravating at times, so it is turned OFF by default.
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May 11
This has also been a long time in the making, but it is definitely worth the wait.
Gone is the ‘canned’ voice that did all the talking in previous versions of Book Maker.
You now MUST have a microphone in order to write a book (if you expect to hear the words in your book).
Now each word in a book can be recorded, using a very simple method. It’s easy enough to get very young children to record each word using their own voice. I’m going to explain how I was able to get a two and a half year old girl to record the words to her story.
The Voice Recorder is only available during the SAVE function of Book Maker. If for some reason you want to make changes to the speech in a book, all you have to do is start Book Maker, and click the CHANGE (EDIT) button. Then click the Book (from the scrolling Book Menu) that you want to Edit. Continue reading »