How to use your voice

So what can you do with a class and your voice?

Can the students do it? Do they have a choice?

There are many fun thing to create with Voicethread,

Images, videos and comments of what you said.

Since I can't seem to get into Voicethread tonight, I thought I would explore some resources looking at how Voicethread can be used in education. Here are some of the things I came across:

• there is a great wiki called Voicethread 4 Education full of tons of resources
• I really like the ideas in this Google presentation

• some of the good ideas:
• creating one account for the class and different identities for each student; students can they respond/comment on something you have posted
• making up a story to go with pictures
• displaying student art work
• recording reflections
• documenting science 
• the wiki also has pages specific to various grades with other lesson ideas such as:
• creating a class "book" Voicethread with each student's artwork and accompanying comment as a page
• book reviews
• the wiki definitely has many good ideas

Some other things I noted:

• the Voicethreads can take quite a long time to load onto a page and the video/audio comments can also take a while to load; would this be frustrating for students?

I found this good article on Voicethreads at Edutopia: VoiceThread extends the classroom with interactive multimedia albums

Bill Ferriter has a good handout for commenting on Voicethreads on his blog The Tempered Radical in the post Using Voicethread for collaborative thought . . . 

That's it for now.