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Based on a Blog by Megan Palevich
Original Publication Date: 7/12/2011
Wow I really like VoiceThread! This web 2.0 tool is a free application that allows teachers to create a prompt and have students respond via voice, written text, or video. The blog by Megan Palevich had a good example in which she used VoiceThread to discuss the required summer reading. Students were able to respond and were enthusiastic about the tool. Her students requested discussions via VoiceThread throughout the year. Ms. Palevich even used VoiceThread as a means to comment on her blog post. I can see the benefits of using VoiceThread in math by posting a problem and allowing students to discuss the strategies necessary to solve it. Students are always excited to explore and utilize new tools and I think they would find VoiceThread highly engaging.
Palevich, M. (2011, July 12). Summer pd: new teacher boot camp week 2 - using voicethread [Web log message]. Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/blog/voicethread-new-teacher-boot-camp
This is great. It is funny because I just heard a conversation from two young girls talking about how they have hardly started their summer reading because it is so boring. This could be a great tool to encourage them to get going because both of them are all about social networking.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious whether applications such as VoiceThread (which I agree is amazing) will be adopted as a medium of its own. I like the multi-modal aspect of VoiceThread, and I'm hoping to employ it this coming semester. Thanks for the heads-up on something pretty cool. Have you used it at all? I'm curious which mode students would be most likely to use for their contributions.
ReplyDeleteVoicethread was introduced to our staff at Curriculum Camp this summer and was one of the many options for creating curricular content which was due at the end of camp. I haven’t used it with students yet but am excited to try it this this fall. I would guess that students will select the communication method they find most comfortable and post in a variety of ways. I guess we'll see!
ReplyDeleteVoice Thread looks really cool. One thing that we struggle with in Social Studies is having students analyze and evaluate primary sources and this would be an outstanding way for students to do this collaboratively. Thanks for posting this.
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