How can you bring some extra life into your class activities, discussions, and games? Ding, Ding, Ding! Yes, that's right, with your own custom soundboard.
A soundboard can be used in your class for many purposes:
- It could provide fun sound effects for class games, quizzes, and competitions.
- You could use the soundboard for audio cues for classroom transitions, such as indicating when time's up, or students need to clear their desks, or switch groups, or such.
- The soundboard could be used while you are reading a story out loud to your students, to bring the story to life with sounds from the story content.
- You could use the sounds to support and reinforce content being taught in class.
- If you or your students are recording podcasts and videos, a soundboard can be used to for effects and transitions while recording.
- And more!
There are certainly lots of options for classroom soundboards, but one free and easy tool for this is Google Slides. With Google Slides you can create your own custom soundboard with audio that you have recorded or downloaded from free audio sites.
See below for details on how to do this. You will find a 21-minute video I did for MoteCon24 where I go through all the steps, as well as links to my associated resource document, session slideshow, sample soundboard, and more.