Just outlines the key points of using a voice thread for teachers who haven't used it before

1. Feedback!
• “Most programs and methods that
worked best were based on heavy
dollops of feedback.”
• “The most effective forms of
feedback provide cues or
reinforcement to the learner, are
in the form of video, audio or
computer-assisted instruction
feedback, or relate feedback to
learning goals.”
John Hattie: Visible Learning

2. The power of feedback
• 134 meta-analyses – Whether some
influences were more or less
influential than others on student
achievement
• 0.2 small, 0.4 medium, 0.6 large when judging
educational outcomes.
Teaching Approach:
FEEDBACK?
Effect Size 0.73
10th highest out of 134

3. KnowledgeNET has capacity
for a powerful E-Portfolio
- evidence of learning
- feedback and feedforward
- goal setting
- collaboration

4. E-PORTFOLIOS: Upload or Embed…
• Word documents or PDFs
• Powerpoints or Slideshows
• Spreadsheets or graphs It helps to have a toolkit of
alternative things to use
• Video
• Movies
• Photos
• Brainstorms, Mind maps
• Collaborative Document
• Voiceovers
• E-Books
• Avatars
• The list is endless…

5. Voice Thread
a great tool for an E-Portfolio

6. What is Voice Thread?
• A collaborative, multimedia slide show for
images, documents, and videos
• Allows people to navigate slides and leave comments
in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or
telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).
• You can Share a VoiceThread with others for them to
record comments too.
• Users can doodle while commenting
• You can set up your whole class with a voicethread
“identity”
• VoiceThreads can be embedded in KNet to show and
receive comments

7. contexts for voice threads
But there’s a bajillion more! (it’s in the urban
dictionary)
1. WRITING: Upload photos of different stages of the writing
Students
process – first draft, next draft, final… give, receive
2. THINKING: Upload a mind map or concept map at the and respond to
beginning and end of an inquiry journey feedback and
3. VISUAL ART: Upload photos of students’ art work feedforward
4. READING: Responding to a shared story/novel
5. SCIENCE: Record a video of students explaining their science fair
investigation from start to finish
6. MATHS: Demonstrate different strategies for solving maths
problems.
7. VISUAL LANGUAGE: Find evidence of persuasion on adverts
8. SOCIAL SCIENCE: Record students explaining their understanding
of key concepts at different times during a learning process
9. PE: Video of students working towards their goals
10. SCHOOL EVENTS: Upload a slideshow of photos of school event
and student reflections of the event.

8. What can you put in it?
• You can upload
– Images
– Photos
– Video
– Documents –
PDF, word, excel, powerpoint

9. How do you comment?
You can comment in 5 ways
1. Microphone
2. Webcam
3. Type Text
4. Phone
5. MP3 file

10. Can you write/draw on it
as you comment?
• Yes - with Doodling, you can
draw on top of the media as you
record your comment
• You can doodle on specific parts
of a video by pressing pause.

11. Does my whole class
need a logon?
Nope!
• One VoiceThread account can
have many identities (commenting
avatars) associated with it.
• No need to logout, login…

12. Can I embed it in
KnowledgeNET
YEP!
• And you don’t need the kids to go out to
voicethread, it can all be done in KNet – then
you have evidence of learning right there!

13. Can you make it private?
YEP!
• there are different security
options

14. What hardware do you need?
• Microphone and Headset
• Computer and Internet
• Webcam 

15. So what? Now what?
1. Sign up for an account – K12
2. Create Identities for your students
3. Choose a context or task for your voicethread
4. Create it! (Upload something)
5. Embed in KNet
6. Get your students collaborating on it