I have gotten SO many emails and questions about Smarty Symbols lately! I am so excited to share with you all my new love!
Smarty symbols is a web based program much like Boardmaker, except I feel as though they are more up with the times. Depending what CD you have, Boardmaker can be tedious, images are difficult to find, you need a CD, and the images are often outdated.
Smarty Symbols offers up to date images, a request system, and IS ALL WEB BASED. you search for the image you need and it pops up and you can drag it into any program you want (I use PowerPoint)!
(& even Brody likes to help with Smarty Symbols too!)
Because the images are so much clearer and modern, I decided to use Smarty Symbols for visuals in my classroom this year, including my schedules! I did mix in some older boardmaker students that I felt were still realistic and important for my students that had already learned them
When making resources for my classroom, Smarty Symbols is now my go to! Especially when I need lots of basic objects for things like comprehension or vocabulary units!
I am so excited to keep using and transferring my classroom over to the smarty symbols world. I am so happy with the service I have received on their website, they are more than happy to help with any issues and are so receptive to customer feedback!
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Are you considering signing up for smarty symbols? I would LOVE for you to get started with Smarty Symbols using my referral link(included throughout this blog post). I receive a small credit each time someone signs up for the service with my link.
Do you pay for this yourself or does your district fund it? The price is actually not that bad. Thank you for sharing, I feel that boardmaker is very outdated and it is hard to find images that I end up having to take my own photos.
I paid myself- especially since I use the images in my products for teachers pay teachers. They are just starting out so the price is really reasonable. Much easier than searching on google images!