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I’m going to put it on the table I use in one of my loud and full classrooms. I found a volume scale on the community board. I made an amazing new cart set up this year, but my classroom peers have been a little interested in all my cool bins! I created my own resource quickly to add some STOP signs on each side of my cart. Add the item to “My Activities” and then open it to edit! If you don’t need to make any changes, just print!

There were over 5,000 results which gave me a great headstart. Instead of creating one from scratch, I searched on the Community Activities section of the Boardmaker Online website.

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The biggest timesaver for me is the community-made resources! Just download and go!įor my caseload, I needed a social story about going to a new school for a student starting next month. When you use their Boardmaker Online account it’s like having the old school Boardmaker Share website and the Boardmaker CD all in one. Like most things, Boardmaker has upgraded to digital storage making things a ton easier. I’ve been rocking the CD version for years even after our school laptops stopped having a built-in CD drive. Boardmaker provided me with access to their online platforms for this school year.Ī decade ago when I became a school SLP, I found a CD for Boardmaker symbols among my materials left from the previous SLP. I recently partnered with Boardmaker after chatting with them at the ASHA convention last year and knew I could start there for some pre-made visual supports and then make my own too. One of the things I immediately realized was that this year I had some students with different needs than last year. It’s a massive amount of work to learn a new caseload (even if it is only part of one) and new teachers. I’m still working in full inclusion in a district preschool but I have 28 new-to-me preschoolers this year and three new-to-me teachers. Is it possible to build a machine that's not just quieter than a standard PC, but completely inaudible? As studio computers get faster, they get noisier.We’ve been back to school for a few weeks now and I’m digging into learning new goals and student objectives. My complete 'silent PC' weighs 3kg in total, and will easily fit under your arm.

There are no optical drives - this machine is designed for use on a network.Although computers are a great deal more capable of complex audio processing tasks than they were just a few years ago, the cooling implications of all that power mean they are a great deal noisier too. In the days when computers such as the Atari ST found a place in many MIDI studio setups, acoustic noise from computers wasn't an issue, and musicians could use the same off-the-shelf computer hardware as anyone else.

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Now specialist music PC suppliers have to utilise expensive tweaked components and sound-damping cases to bring noise down to acceptable levels. Even the Mac, as it has shared more and more components with PCs, has lost some of its traditional advantage in this area.

When conversation turns to the relentless progress of computer technology, you will often hear 'Moore's Law' quoted. This law states that the number of transistors that can be packed into a CPU will double every year or two, and so far this seems to have held true, resulting in the exponential growth of computer performance. Gordon Moore is the co-founder of Intel, so this may be something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Low power consumption - and therefore cool running and quiet operation - does not appear to have been a design priority with Pentium chips, while the equivalent AMD processors, such as the Athlon, run even hotter. The Power PC chips used in Macs are said to run cooler than the equivalent Pentiums, but they too are often fitted with fans. PC cases are now available ready-fitted with acoustic material.The C3 processor might not be as powerful as some other chips, but it runs cool.A typical contemporary computer has a CPU fan, a power supply rated at 400 Watts or more which has another fan, a fan on the graphics card, perhaps a fan cooling the high-speed disk drive which has a whine all of its own, and maybe a couple more fans to blow air in to the front of the case and out of the back. This kind of computer makes so much noise that subtle judgements about sound can be impossible without turning up the monitor amplifier to potentially ear-damaging levels. It's one thing to sacrifice those 'golden ears' in a lifetime of service to rock & roll, but to waste them because of badly designed equipment would be a tragedy. Unfortunately this kind of computer is all too common, because most manufacturers don't believe that the mass market is interested in ergonomic issues.Īpple's G4 Cube, with its large passively cooled heatsink, was perhaps the closest a mainstream manufacturer has got to a silent system in recent years. It wasn't available for long, being launched in the summer of 2000 and discontinued one year later.

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