2. Many ways to approach oral &
written communication
• blog
• glog (multimedia posters)
• powerpoint presentations
• digital stories (by using Moviemaker,
Photostory or iMovie)
• podcasts or other audiofiles
• VoiceThread
3. Today’s workshop program
• Presentation / intro to the
VoiceThread program
• Workshop
• Sharing/presentation of created
voicethreads
• Sharing of experience
4. VoiceThread
• collaborative,
multimedia
slideshow
• practice language
skills & technology
in three steps
• quick overview Paris
5. Step 1: Upload
• Production of VoiceThread
• collaborative vs individual products
• insert producer comments by
recording or typing
• Lends itself easily to any topic!
• Many good ideas on the VoiceThread
Community page
9. Our experience
• easy accessible tool
• equipment necessary or additional
no software installation
• easy to learn & easy to use
• primary focus on oral skills
• confidence in speaking a helps build
“hands-on” activity that
foreign language
• great assessment tool for oral feedback
10. • VoiceThread can be embedded to
Twin Space (details follow )
• The free version has certain
limitations
• Various possible upgrades for
classroom purposes available, at app.
60$ a year
11.
12. How to embed a VoiceThread to
Twin Space
(follow the links for further details)
1. Go to your Twin Space
2. Click Project Activities and then choose the folder where you want to embed the
VoiceThread(s)
3. Click Actions and then Add application
4. Click Content Management
5. Choose Web content display and click Add
6. Once the Web content display application is added to your activity folder, click the Edit Web
Content button in the bottom left corner
7. Add a name and then write the text you want to precede the embedded voicethread
8. Copy the embed code from your VoiceThread
9. Click the Source button in the editor, paste the embed code, and then click Save
10. Voilà! Your VoiceThread has now been embedded to Twin Space
13. Click Project Activities
and then choose the
folder where you want
to embed the
VoiceThread(s)
back
14. 2. 1.
Click Actions and then Add
application
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