In my most recent post I shared a
collection of web-based audio recording tools that you and your students can use to
record and add your voice to Google Slides, or any project. There are many fun and engaging ways this new feature for Slides could be used for teaching and learning.
In the past I have had a lot of fun making drag and drop manipulative activities such as the
Build a Snowman,
Build a Jack-o-Lantern, and
One Fish Two Fish templates. My plan was to combine that sort of activity with the new audio feature in Slides.
To try this out I created an interactive, audio-based activity in Google Slides for
practicing short and long vowel sounds. In this slideshow, students are presented with clipart images that have attached audio files with each word spoken aloud. The students can then drag and drop the images to a box with the corresponding vowel sound. (Even if you are not a primary teacher, you can learn a lot about grouping items for any audio activities you might want to make.)
To make this work well, I had to take advantage of a neat
option in Slides for grouping items. This allowed me to combine each piece of clipart with its associated audio file. In this blog post we will take a look at how this is done, so you can use this trick to create similar multimedia activities. You can also get a copy of the final template below for short and long vowel sounds to use with your students if you would like.
