VoiceThread+in+Classrooms

= VoiceThread Projects = =~ Conversations and Publishing in the Clouds=

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].

This is a POWERFUL tool for student self-reflection PLUS critical friend feedback. Student work can be navigated with an option for leaving [|comments in 5 ways] - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). This allows VoiceThreads to be [|share]d with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments.

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.

=Explore FAV VoiceThreads=


 * Eracism Debate w/ middle school students from seven countries was hosted this winter - and expected to run again - students needed to present arguments - reasons - and evidence. They had to win both the affirmative and negative side to win the final tournament!


 * Great Depression Project - a docudrama "mashing" social studies, research, and poetry standards together. Reflect on - did they make the facts, era, experiences of the depression authentically come alive?


 * Booo Global Warming - science fair project on polar bears! Reflect on content - NOTS, LOTS or HOTS? reflect on voice performance?


 * Amazing Hug - Deaf students share their field trip to the zoo!


 * Internment Camp Letters (4th Grade Tolerance Unit Historical Fiction Letters) - I love the critical friend comments from living survivors of Internment Camps - see second slide feedback comments.


 * Third Grade Weather Poetry (enjoy the expressive voices sharing their original art and poems - Checkout Slide #4 -->the wind is my FAV) Reflect on voice performance! And ponder the experience of learners getting feedback from young and adults on their work. I was captured by the left bottom chest icon - a young girl gave her own interpretive reading of this poem as a comment.


 * Three Little Pigs - note the student's conclusion of the moral of the story - adds rigor - love her "performing" voice too!


 * A Mash-up w/ Catcher in the Rye - Reflect on whether this high school work goes beyond a book report telling the story - is this a summary or another type of communication? Reflect on author's conclusion at the end.


 * Robert Frost StoryKeepers Camp - A group of educators experienced reading/writing multimedia expressing a time when choices and decisions touched our lives. Reflect on the variety of approaches to telling their story - which one appealed to you?

Other Resource Ideas

 * VoiceThread for Art
 * VoiceThread Examples for Education