Sound boards

I love pod casts. Of course I am a fan of talk radio. Ok, I have to confess that I will occasionally tune into Ira Glass' This American Life, even though it sadly and most often brutally depicts man's depravity: it is produced with a high degree of eloquence.

Anyway, getting back to the podcast talking about sound boards. A sound board is either a series of hyperlinked icons or text that links to a specific audio file. These can be developed with A variety of programs and apps to include Power Point. This is done by creating a panel of images, buttons, or text boxes each linking to an audio file on a separate slide that houses the audio file. I could see a number of instructional uses for this including using them with students on the autism spectrum. Such media would be perfect for social stories. However, in a classroom soundboards could be used for vocabulary, character studies, or even biographical or historical accounts. Similarly, character studies and/or accounts would be a great center idea for biblical exploration. By the way, the podcast was CBT Cafe video tutorial, and he demonstrator does a nice job of explaining how to creat a soundboard on PowerPoint.