Objective:
Understand that copyright is a legal system that protects your rights to creative work.
Design the user interface and Plan the code for your own soundboard app.
Locate Media for your App
Watch the Video about the Creative Soundboard App you will begin designing today.
Question:
What are 3 images and sounds you want to include in your app?
Click here to explore Creative Soundboard examples
Your app has three or more pictures and related sounds.
Sounds are played when you click the related pictures.
Sounds don’t overlap
When you click a button to play a sound, the app should pause any sound that is already playing.
Hint: use an if/else (conditional) block.)
Watch a video about a real girl who is a writer and shares her writing online.
Questions:
Why does Nicole want to share her writing online? What are the benefits to her?
What are the risks of Nicole sharing her writing online?
Click here to make of copy of the worksheet. Use the worksheet to plan the design of your creative soundboard app.
Find all of the images and sounds that you will use in your soundboard app.
Find Images and Sounds for your Soundboard App.
Only search for open source (or Creative Commons-licensed) media.
Sound Resources
Due to their size, your sound files should be no more than 10 seconds each. Use mp3cut.net to trim your files. Then, upload your files to your App Inventor Project.
Once you have already downloaded all of the pictures and sounds you will use in your soundboard app, open a new project in App Inventor and upload your media.
In the Designer tab, click Upload File...
Begin Coding in App Inventor
This lesson was created by Common Sense Education and is openly shared with a Creative Commons license.