V Is For Voice Thread

V is for VoiceThread

What is VoiceThread?
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

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

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?

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

Show me how
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
Mental Maths

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V Is For Voice Thread

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