Making Thinking Visible: Using Voicethread in the Classroom
"What is a Voicethread, Anyway?"
A “conversation in the cloud”, inspired by and around media: images, video, documents, presentations (or any combination of these). Tool developed in 2007 for audio sharing; has grown into a valuable communication tool.
With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice through a Facebook Fan Page (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. Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies. (https://voicethread.com/about/features/)
Media is uploaded to your Voicethread account. Your Voicethread may be embedded into website or exported as a movie for archiving
With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice through a Facebook Fan Page (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. Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies. (https://voicethread.com/about/features/)
Media is uploaded to your Voicethread account. Your Voicethread may be embedded into website or exported as a movie for archiving
How can you use Voicethread in YOUR classroom?
Voicethread Digital Library: Exemplars arranged by content area
Art Music, Poetry: A Multiage Collaboration: 3 states, 3 grades, 3 artistic mediums...One terrific Project!
https://voicethread.com/about/library/K12_art_poetry_and_music_from_Erin_Berg/ (slide 3)
Art Music, Poetry: A Multiage Collaboration: 3 states, 3 grades, 3 artistic mediums...One terrific Project!
https://voicethread.com/about/library/K12_art_poetry_and_music_from_Erin_Berg/ (slide 3)
Tom Barrett's 26 Interesting Ways to Use Voicethread in the Classroom
Analyze image or artifact to allow ALL students to have a voice: http://voicethread.com/#q.b208243.i1092985
See Himmelle and Himmelle's Total Participation Teaching
See Himmelle and Himmelle's Total Participation Teaching
Ellis Island RAFT Writing
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Student to Student
Encourage students to actively listen to each other's ideas... and comment appropriately (digital etiquette, digital safety opportunity)
Dynamic Digital Portfolios: http://teachingsagittarian.edublogs.org/2009/03/15/voicethread-as-a-digital-portfolio/
1st Grade Writers' Workshop Publishing
Learning to compliment a classmate. Privacy settings!
Readers Theater (and Creative Commons Image Searching)
Reading with fluency; reading for meaning
Getting Connected: Nuts and Bolts
Vermont's Connected Voices Project, discounted school-wide subscription
Renewed for 2012-2013 school year; contact your VITA-Learn rep for pricing and details
Voicethread 4 Education Wiki, created by Collette Cassinelli: http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com
Educators seeking collaborators
Accounts Options:
Free
Single Educator Account: 15/month or $79/year (50 accounts)
- 6 hr/yr phone commenting
- 100 archival movies/yr
School Account (350 users) $450.00/yr list price... See Connected Voices for discount
Tutorials and screenshots for How To:
voicethreadgettingstarted.pdf | |
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voicethreadworkshop.pdf | |
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