1. VOICETHREAD
Participation is not optional!

2. WHY VOICETHREAD
 VoiceThread offers a natural online interaction
that lends itself to students presenting and
defending their work before experts and peers.
 Educause Learning Initiative
 Reflect
on your experience with the Discussion
Board…
 Thoughts? What are the limitations?
 Easy
integration of voice and other types of
media for commenting on an original artifact.

3. WEB 2.0 AND CLOUD
 Web 2.0
 Collaborating and Creating – not Consuming
 “Utilizing and developing content is no longer about
being experimental; it has become the mark of a
world-class institution,” NMC 2011 Horizon Report.
 Cloud computing
 Delivery of computing as a service – not a product
 Shared resources, software, and information provided
over a network (cloud) – typically the Internet
 You don’t need to be concerned about where the
service is or how it is configured
 Benefits… empowerment, agility, reliability,
performance, security, scalability, maintenance

4. VOICETHREAD STRATEGIES
 Conversations around almost any type of file
 Images (jpg, gif, png, bmp, svg)
 VoiceThread allows zooming – 1280 x 960 is ideal size
 Videos (QT, WMV, AVI)
 QuickTime alone can be encoded by some 40 codecs –
VoiceThread will play most – but test to be sure
 Upload videos that precisely match the native size of a
VoiceThread – 600 x 450 pixels
 Documents (doc, docx, pdf, odt, xls, xlsx, ods)
 A simple right click on any page of the document allows
download for print of the entire document
 Presentation (ppt, pptx, odp, pdf)
 Original file stored, VoiceThread breaks into individual
pages

5. ADDING VIDEO TO VOICETHREAD
 To include YouTube or TeacherTube videos in
your VoiceThread, download to your computer
first
 KeepVID is probably the easiest way to save these
types of videos to your desktop
 To include a TED Talk…
 Choose the TED Talk
 Choose the Download link
 Follow the directions in the Download this talk!
Dialog box
 This may take a bit of time!

6. VOICETHREAD IMPLEMENTATIONS
 ePortfolios
 Online Lectures
 Debates!
 Professional Development
 Tutoring
 Language Practice
 Project-Based Learning
 Collaboration

7. VOICETHREAD COMPONENTS
MyVoice Course Groups
 From Garth & Bev
 Kind of like your  Creating and Using

email inbox Coursehttp://blog.garthandbev.tv
Groups
 Holds all the
 Copy the Group’s link
/2010/09/is-the-pencil-
VoiceThread magic/
and share it via email,
conversations you
create, participate in, web, or print
or subscribe to  You can drag and drop
 Represented by members between
thumbnails groups
 Tutorials

8. FIRST STEPS
 Create your new Group
 Click the New+ icon – give the group a name and
optionally add a description for the group in the
Describe your Group dialog box
 Add your group members
 Add to Contacts first, then drag to Group
 Copy the link and send via email, add to a
website, course materials, etc.
 After the Group is created, click on a
VoiceThread and drag it onto the Group’s name
on the left – your VoiceThread is instantly shared
with everyone in your Group!

9. CREATE YOUR VOICETHREAD
Adding
Upload Resources
Narration/Comments
 Upload from  Choose the slide you
 Your computer want to add comments
 Media sources
to
 Click the Comment
(includes My
VoiceThreads, Flickr, button
Facebook, and The  Click the Comment
New York Public button on the slide
Library) and choose Record,
 URL (of a file to add) Type, or Upload a
 My Webcam comment from a file,
webcam or phone

10. CREATE YOUR VOICETHREAD
Text Option Share
 Get a Link to share or
 Type your comment / select your group or
narrative individual contacts set
 Notice the color wheel at
up earlier
the right of the slide
 Choose a color if you
want to draw an arrow,
underline text in the
document, etc.
 Click Save

11. PLAYBACK OPTIONS
 Wait 4 seconds before turning the slide – you can
set the number of seconds
 Check Options
 Start playing when opened?
 Show fullscreen when opened?
 Allow others to download original images and
documents?
 Hide final share slide?
 Allow others to Export?
 Allow others to Make a Copy?

12. VOICETHREAD OPTIONS
Export Embed
 Embed codes for
 Export an Archival Facebook, Twitter,
Movie version of this Yahoo, Blogger,
VoiceThread to save, iGoogle, Netvibes, and
share, and view offline others
on your computer, TV,  Make your choice,
iDevice. choose the red Copy
 There is a cost for button for the embed
some of these code

13. PUBLISHING OPTIONS
 Check list options
 Allow anyone to View?
 Allow anyone to Comment?
 Moderate Comments?
 Show on Browse page?
 You’llsee that your VoiceThread is currently
private, and no one else can see it. You are the
only person who can edit this VoiceThread.

14. EDITING AN EXISTING
VOICETHREAD
 Go to MyVoice
 Notice that your VoiceThreads each have a menu
option in the lower right hand corner
 Click on the menu option – you’ll see Delete,
Make a Copy, Share, and Edit as your options
 Choose Edit

15. VOICETHREAD ACCOUNTS
Products Decisions…
 Free  Free – limited
 K-12  Single Educator K-12
 Educators, Schools, - $60.00/year,
Districts, States
$15.00/month
 Higher Ed  Single Instructor
 Professors,
Departments, Higher Ed - $99/year
Universities  Business – negotiated
 Business  Pro - $59.95/year
 Pro

16. WHY VOICETHREAD?
 Meaningful technology integration has been
defined as curricula utilizing authentic tasks
that intentionally and actively help learners to
construct their own meanings from thinking
about experiences and allows for more
multidisciplinary project approaches (Jonassen,
et. al. 1999).
 Integration has been defined not by the amount
or type of technology used, but by how and why it
is used (Earle, 2002).

17. Questions ?