Clickable Music Choice Boards for Seesaw-
When our school went to online learning because of the Covid-19 virus, I discovered that it is possible to create Clickable Music Choice Boards for Seesaw that simplify lesson planning and enables multiple links. Finding a way around these two hurdles has been a game-changer for delivering lessons that engage my music students during these unique school days.Â
What are Choice Boards?
Choice boards are graphic organizers that comprise of different amounts of squares. Each square is an activity. The activities help students learn or practice a primary concept while allowing them a choice. Students can be instructed to choose one or more of these activities to complete and they can progress from one activity to another either in an organized or random order.Â
What are Clickable Music Choice Boards for Seesaw?
Think of them as kid-friendly documents (PDFs) with pictures and words that are linked to videos or websites all focused on a single concept or learning expectation. When this PDF is attached to Seesaw, students have access to multiple learning activities, far more than can be included in a normal Seesaw Activity.Â
I Want to Share My Clickable Music Choice Boards
Creating the Clickable Music Choice Boards is easy to do. I used Google Slides to create these, but other publishing apps would also work. I’ll say more about the creation process next post. Until then, I want to share my boards with anyone who might need them right away.
If you want to use these boards, simply click on the image; you will be prompted to SAVE the activity in Seesaw.
Once you save the activity, it will go into your library.
It now lives in your library. Click on the activity and you touch the heart and add it to a collection, a way of organizing your favorites in a collection. You do not need to assign an activity right away.
If you want to make changes to an activity, touch the three dots at the bottom and “Copy and Edit” to make it your own. This is important because you will need to check all of the links to make sure they work in your school setting. Firewalls often prevent these links from working even though all of my settings are set to “SHARE.”
No. 1. PreK Music Choice Board / Google Slides / Seesaw link
No 1. Kindergarten Music Choice Board / Google Slides / Seesaw link
No 1. First Grade Music Choice Board / Google Slides / Seesaw link
No. 1. Second Grade Music Choice Board / Google Slides / Seesaw link
No. 1. Third Grade Music Choice Board / Google Slides / Seesaw link
No. 1. Fourth Grade Music Choice Board / Google Slides / Seesaw link
Week 2 Clickable Music Choice Boards
No. 2. PreK Music Choice Board / Google Slides / Seesaw link
No 2. Kindergarten Music Choice Board / Google Slides / Seesaw link
No 2. First Grade Music Choice Board / Google Slides / Link
No. 2. First Grade Seesaw activity with embedded videos link
No. 2. Second Grade Music Choice Board / Google Slides / Seesaw link
No. 2. Third Grade Music Choice Board / Google Slides / Seesaw link
No. 2. Fourth Grade Music Choice Board / Google Slides / Seesaw link
Directions for Students:
After watching the tutorial above and reading the directions in each Seesaw activity, you will notice that students have to tap “View Instructions” to access the Clickable Music Choice Board in Seesaw.Â
Once students click “View Instructions” they will notice the Clickable Music Choice Board to the left.Â
When they tap on the image, they will need to tap “View Original” at the bottom on the page. This will take them online and all of the links will be active.
I hope you find these Clickable Music Choice Boards for Seesaw helpful and I hope that using them lightens your load and brings a little bit of joy as you navigate these scary days.Â
I want to do just a little more!
Cherie
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27 thoughts on “Clickable Music Choice Boards”
Thank you so much for sharing these. You’ve always been so generous with your work and it hasn’t gone unnoticed over the years. I’m completely overwhelmed right now and these have helped me to see a way forward. Wishing you all the best.
I think we’re all overwhelmed right now and it feels like every week has a different “techie” challenge. Thank you for your kind words. I do love sharing and imagining that these activities will help just until our feet can get back on solid ground. Don’t fret! You are not alone!!
Hi Cherie – These look brilliant and you are very generous to share them! I don’t know what on earth I am doing wrong, but clicking “Save Activity” does not pop it into my library. I am a brand new Seesaw user, but I do have an account set up and my library stubbornly stays empty when I try to add your files. I may just have to contact their help desk, but I thought you just might have a quick suggestions. I would love to be able to add least browse through your content!
Hi Sally,
I’ll try and send it to you directly. Don’t fret. I’ll help you!
Cherie
I am having trouble saving these boards into my library on SeeSaw! Any tips??
Hi Ashley,
If you just tap on the board image, the link will open in Seesaw. Do you see the “Save Activity” blue tab in the upper right-hand corner? Touch that tab and it will add it to your personal Library. From there you can touch the HEART and add it to a collection and then assign the activity to a class at a later time. Are you able to save the activity?
Hi, I had the same issues with the saving of files problem. Could you send me the links as well? Thanks so much for sharing.
Hi Rosey,
I just checked and the links are all working from my end. When you click on the image, it takes you to Seesaw and you can “Save Activity” from that window. I know that Seesaw was down for a bit today. Please try again and let me know if you are still having problems. – Cherie
Wow! Just. WOW! Thank you so much for these amazing resources!! My school is not allowed to use SeeSaw. Is there any way to save these into Google Slides?
Yes. I will email the slides to you. I have a Zoom meeting for an hour and then I will send them to you (maybe before, if the meeting is boring!!)
Bless your wonderful heart! Thank you!!
I think I was finally able to save them. However I am not sure my students know See-Saw. Is there another way to use the choice boards?? I think they are AWESOME!!!!!
Not really sure why it is saying “anonymous “! This is Ashley responding. These are so awesome but wondering if there are options to use without SeeSaw??
Seesaw is easy to use and I think if you made a video tutorial demonstrating how to open the file, touch “View Original” and use the back arrows, the kids will figure it out easier than you think they will. First, try the boards out yourself- as if you were a kid- and don’t be afraid to punch buttons. Try each board out and respond as a “Sample” student so you can see how it works. If you are completely new to Seesaw, there community help site is the best anywhere. There are videos to watch and I think they have live help sessions during the week days for newbies!. These boards are made in Google Slides so if you are a Google school, that opens the door to Google classroom.YOu can email the PDF, but you’ll have to teach them how to “View Original” to activate the video links.
Thank you! I will look into trying them as a student and go from there!
Thanks!
Ashely
Hi Wanda. I just tried to send you the links in Google Slides, but the email returns. Is there another email address I can use for you?It seems to be blocked by your school. – Cherie
Hi Cherie – these are amazing! Seriously amazing. Thank you! I have a couple questions – 1) I wanted to swap out a couple things from the choice board as my kids are bit behind in theory from yours. Also – our district blocks safeyoutube (something to do with their permissions don’t agree w ours) Not sure on the viewpure ones. Since it’s a PDF, I can’t edit. Is there a way that I might be missing to edit the boards? 2) Not a problem to make my own (thank you for sharing the Kris’ video – very helpful!). I love the look of all your boards, but especially the latest one. Is that a template you found or did you create that? Thanks!
Hi Christy. Thanks for the kind words. I’m so glad you can use the boards. I will be happy to send you the Google slide so that you can swap out what you need and change the videos to the format that works for your school. Do you need all of the slides? Group 4? Let me know and I’ll send them to you. I’ve created each template and I’m glad you like them. Google Slides was new to me so I’m learning as I go just like everyone else right now! I look forward to helping you. – Cherie
Hi Cherie, I’m so sorry for the trouble! Perhaps my gmail will work better – I have used it in the log-in below. If that doesn’t work, I will give you my personal email instead. Thank you SO much!
Hi Cherie, I thought I had replied before but it’s not showing up – hopefully you don’t get this twice! I’m so sorry things did not work out. I have replied to this with my work gmail account – fingers crossed that works. If not, I will give you my personal email address instead. Thank you SO much!
Hi again and thanks so much. Would you able to share 5th and 1st grades? I can adapt the other grade levels from there. Thank you!
Cherie – I cannot thank you ENOUGH for your work and your generosity in sharing it with us all. I have the same issues as Christy. My kids are a bit behind yours and we have safeyoutube blocked as well (I totally don’t understand why and literally went to bat with my tech guy over it last week….) I’m currently working on the 201 along with all the week 2 boards. Any chance you’d be willing to share the slide decks with me?? mcurrier@esmschools.org.
I am happy to share and I’ve just emailed the links to you.Enjoy!
Wanda, I tried again and the email was returned because of restrictions. My email is cherieherring@gmaill.com Please send me another email address to try.
Hi Cherie
I have just discovered these and will use some for my school. Thank you so, so, so much for sharing. They are amazing and so incredibly helpful and I wish I had discovered them earlier. I have learnt so much about seesaw from experimenting with your boards. I would love them in google slide format too as our seniors don’t use seesaw but google classroom. I almost feel guilty using them as I know how much time and effort goes into making resources like this, because it just takes me forever to create something like this! I am so appreciative that I don’t have to re-invent the wheel. Huge thanks! rowllings.cat@gmail.com
Thank you so much for sharing this resource. I’m trying to make my own Choice Boards, unfortunately, we’re not using Seesaw at this time. So, I have 2 questions. First, how do you create those buttons without the entire YouTube/viewpure box showing up? Second, how do you get the big giant play button from YouTube to NOT show up all over the picture? Are these Seesaw things, or can I do this just using G. Slides?
Hi Natalie!
You don’t have to use these in Seesaw. They are just Google Slides in the present mode. If I understand your question, there is a little trick to editing the url to get rid of the popup ads. When you copy the url, insert _popup between the word watch and the ? watch_popup? This is like telling it to play but take away the popups. It doesn’t work everytime, but it’s nice when it does work. I agree with you; I don’t like all the stuff around the Viewpure window.
I take a screenshot of the video and use that image to link the video. I’ve learned since I first started, to add a page and “insert video” on a new page. then I link the image on the first page to the video page. When all of that is done, I give it to my students as a presentation. That way, they don’t have to keep closing the windows.There’s a trick to that too, if you want to know more. I hope I’ve helped a little bit and I’m happy to help you get started. – Cherie