Friday, April 15, 2016

Revisiting VoiceThread

I've been thinking about VoiceThread again lately.   Have you tried it?  I've posted about VoiceThread before, but if you're unfamiliar with it, it's essentially a site where you can post a series of images to start a conversation.  People then add comments, as text or in audio or video form, using a microphone or webcam.  The comments show up to the left and right of the images.

Spanish teachers at CVU have used VoiceThread to allow their students to discuss famous paintings in Spanish, for example (recording their voices).  There's a math teacher in Burlington who snaps photos on his phone when he sees interesting geometric shapes, then posts them to a VoiceThread for students to comment.  There are science teachers who use VoiceThread for lab reports (students capture images and/or video of each step, then annotate with comments).

Here's a VoiceThread  I just started with some images from different areas that might just get students thinking.  You can see that I've used text, audio, and webcam commenting.  Best to expand to full screen to see this.

Feel free to add a comment (you do need to create an account to do so).



I'd be happy to help you get a VoiceThread going in your class.  Stop by 118 any time!

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