V is for VoiceThread

What is VoiceThread? An online application Upload images Comment on them Simple

An online application

Upload images

Comment on them

Simple

How can it be used? For digital story telling Biographical writing Poetry – match words to images or images to words Reinterpretation of an existing story To examine student thinking in solving a maths problem To set a homework question To critique a book or piece of art To revise a topic To unearth misconceptions in students’ thinking For procedural writing or recount

For digital story telling

Biographical writing

Poetry – match words to images or images to words

Reinterpretation of an existing story

To examine student thinking in solving a maths problem

To set a homework question

To critique a book or piece of art

To revise a topic

To unearth misconceptions in students’ thinking

For procedural writing or recount

Rationale for using a VoiceThread It is engaging No downloads required It is easy to monitor what students have done It promotes critical literacy It promotes collaboration It gives a voice to students who are reticent in class Tasks can be targeted at any level of Bloom’s taxonomy

It is engaging

No downloads required

It is easy to monitor what students have done

It promotes critical literacy

It promotes collaboration

It gives a voice to students who are reticent in class

Tasks can be targeted at any level of Bloom’s taxonomy

Cautions Online safety – easy to address within application Intellectual property – need to educate students Easy to upload something for students to comment on, but is it authentic learning? – a need to plan for VoiceThreads How to assess? – Number of comments? Quality of thinking? Creativity of work?

Online safety – easy to address within application

Intellectual property – need to educate students

Easy to upload something for students to comment on, but is it authentic learning? – a need to plan for VoiceThreads

How to assess? – Number of comments? Quality of thinking? Creativity of work?

Where to get images Make your own Take photos of, or scan, student work Bring photos from home Create images with drawing tools eg Black Cat, Photoshop, Paint, ActivStudio Upload documents: Word, PDF, Excel, PowerPoint Find on the Internet Wikimedia commons Flickr

Make your own

Take photos of, or scan, student work

Bring photos from home

Create images with drawing tools eg Black Cat, Photoshop, Paint, ActivStudio

Upload documents: Word, PDF, Excel, PowerPoint

Find on the Internet

Wikimedia commons

Flickr

Show me how Creating a login How to make a VoiceThread in one minute Embedding a VoiceThread in the OLP Making a VoiceThread private

Creating a login

How to make a VoiceThread in one minute

Embedding a VoiceThread in the OLP

Making a VoiceThread private

Some favourites Hamlet for Children http://voicethread.com/share/20471/ European art http://voicethread.com/share/89671/ Mental Maths http://voicethread.com/share/92987/

Hamlet for Children

http://voicethread.com/share/20471/

European art

http://voicethread.com/share/89671/

Mental Maths

http://voicethread.com/share/92987/