This document summarizes a Voicethread project between St James Primary School in Australia and a school in the United States. Voicethread allows users to create multimedia presentations and leave comments via voice, text, audio or video. St James worked with several other Australian schools and one in New Jersey, USA to set up student avatars and comment features on Voicethread. The project aimed to facilitate collaboration between international schools by having students exchange photos and comments about each other's school mascots.

1. Voicethread Project 2010
Communicating across the World
Genevieve Cook (St James Primary School)
&
Laurie Wales (Learning Technology Team)

2. What is Voicethread?
 Collaboration made Simple - http://voicethread.com/
 A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide
show that holds images, documents, and videos and
allows people to navigate pages and leave comments
in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text,
audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a
VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues
for them to record comments too.

3.  Schools
 St James, Muswellbrook
 St Patrick’s Wallsend
 St Mary’s Warners Bay
 Elisabeth Morrow School, Englewood New Jersey USA
Overview

4. St James Muswellbrook
What steps did you follow?
Creation of the avatars
Organising comments
Questions / Other examples??

5. Creating Identities for Students
Students can create their own
identities to make a comment on
VoiceThread pages.
Create a folder in documents
containing an image for each student.
Select Comment and click on the
identity to the left of the comment
box. Use Create another identity and
select an image for the image
assigned to each student to be
uploaded.

6. Comments
Students can record or type a
comment on each page by
clicking on Comment and
choosing to record and/or type a
comment. A set of headphones
with a microphone is useful for
recording comments. Listen to
the recording playback and
select save or cancel to re-record
the comment.

7. The uses for VoiceThread are
unlimited:
Literacy
Create a digital book using
photographed illustrations
Joint constructions of text types
Mathematics
Mathematical strategies step by step
Investigate arrays
CAPA
Art appreciation – Look at a collection
of works from one or more artists
Science/HSIE/RE
Themes
Role-plays of Scripture stories
And many more…

8. Reflections
o Use a set of headphones with microphone so
that the comments recorded are clear
o Work with a small group at a time
o Involve students in creating nicknames to
use online and in the selection of avatars

9. o Process
identify interested teachers in international schools
match with teachers in our diocesan schools
create email contacts
exchange class mascots
Full Project
Virginia, USA
New Jersey, USA
Martha's Vineyard, USA
Bolton, UK
North Carolina, USA
Helsinki, Finland
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Switzerland
o Take photos and video of mascot
around school
on excursions
on holidays
o Upload to Voicethread
add avatars
comments
o Share with partner class
Invite comments

10. Questions