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This week's ELH Challenge (#88) was to create an interactive soundboard, so I decided to have some fun and use some of my favorite Sesame Street characters for this demo.
Design Inspiration
Impressed with the cool interactive soundboard examples David shared with us in this week's challenge, I knew I had to join in although I am a bit late with this submission. I wanted to mix it up with this challenge and just have fun; I can be all too serious about my work sometimes. Having just spent the weekend with my nieces and nephew, I was inspired to use the Sesame Street characters for this demo.
I decided to create triggers that, when hovered over, each image would play a sound. I decided to also set a trigger that would play each sound when the learner clicked on the image in case they were using a mobile device (hovering is not really an option on mobile devices).
Nothing too special here - just wanted to keep it short and sweet. My last design decision was to make the demo appear to be floating in the browser (inspired by Jackie Van Nice's post on her blog about going full screen and losing the player). I really like how clean it looks without a player - less distracting.
I decided to create triggers that, when hovered over, each image would play a sound. I decided to also set a trigger that would play each sound when the learner clicked on the image in case they were using a mobile device (hovering is not really an option on mobile devices).
Nothing too special here - just wanted to keep it short and sweet. My last design decision was to make the demo appear to be floating in the browser (inspired by Jackie Van Nice's post on her blog about going full screen and losing the player). I really like how clean it looks without a player - less distracting.
Content Decisions
I selected these fun little Sesame Street characters after spending some time with my nieces and nephews over the past weekend - oh how I miss those carefree days of childhood! The content was simple - selecting some cool audio clips for each character that I found on this site.
I can see a number of ways I might use interactive soundboards in my course design, especially for assessments and content-heavy slides. I can see a scenario where the learner listens to feedback, recommendations, or suggestions from a number of different people and then having to select which solution would be best. With content-heavy slides, this would be a great way to share information without overloading the learner's cognitive capacity. I will be using this design concept this week as I work to build test-out questions for our online course at Ole Miss.
Here's the file:
I can see a number of ways I might use interactive soundboards in my course design, especially for assessments and content-heavy slides. I can see a scenario where the learner listens to feedback, recommendations, or suggestions from a number of different people and then having to select which solution would be best. With content-heavy slides, this would be a great way to share information without overloading the learner's cognitive capacity. I will be using this design concept this week as I work to build test-out questions for our online course at Ole Miss.
Here's the file:
| audioboardssesamestreetcharacters.story |