Diane Quirk on 2009-06-06
This comes from the brain's need to socilaize for learning. They may not be learning what the teacher thinks they should be learning at that point in time but they ARE learning something.
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L Prosen"Commenting Tips for Voicethreaders
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The best Voicethreads are truly interactive—with users listening and responding to one another. They are super interesting digital conversations! Highly accomplished Voicethreaders are constantly thinking while interacting with a Voicethread presentation. They come to the conversation with an open mind, willing to reconsider their own positions—and willing to challenge the notions of others.
Voicethreading requires users to develop the skills that active thinkers bring to any learning experience. Some of the best tips about active thinking have been developed over time by teachers like Kelly Gallagher and Matt Copeland—who have each written books about reading and writing in middle and high schools. They’ve also been developed by an organization called Project CRISS—Creating Independence through Student Owned Strategies.
The following tips for Voicethreaders are adapted from the collective work of Gallagher, Copeland and Project CRISS:
To be an active Voicethreader, start by carefully working your way through a presentation. While viewing pictures and listening to the comments that have been added by other users, you should:
1. Gather Facts: Jot down things that are interesting and new to you
2. Make Connections: Relate and compare things you are viewing and hearing to things that you already know.
3. Ask Questions: What about the comments and presentation is confusing to you? What don’t you understand? How will you find the answer? Remember that there will ALWAYS be questions in an active thinker’s mind!
4. Give Opinions: Make judgments about what you are viewing and hearing. Do you agree? Do you disagree? Like? Dislike? Do you support or oppose anything that you have heard or seen? Why?
Use the following sentence starters to shape your thoughts and comments while viewing or participating in Voicethread presentations. Comments based on these kinds of statements make Voicethreads interactive and engaging.
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ed brazeeVoiceThread Tips by Bill Ferriter
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- Voicethread is Asynchronous: That means users can work on and enjoy Voicethread presentations at any time--even if their "partners" are sleeping a million miles away!
- Voicethread is Engaging: Let's face it--sometimes working with digital partners can be pretty boring. After all, email and discussion boards are nothing more than written text. Voicethread gives users something interesting to talk about---pictures! What's more, being able to actually hear one another makes digital communication through Voicethread much more personal.
What is Voicethread?
One of the best free tools available to teachers and students who are learning with the world rather than about the world is Voicethread. Known as a “group audio blog,” Voicethread allows users to record text and audio comments about uploaded images. Voicethread has two distinct advantages for classrooms that are communicating and collaborating across counties, countries or continents:
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- Gather Facts: Jot down things that are interesting and new to you
- Make Connections: Relate and compare things you are viewing and hearing to things that you already know.
- Ask Questions: What about the comments and presentation is confusing to you? What don’t you understand? How will you find the answer? Remember that there will ALWAYS be questions in an active thinker’s mind!
- Give Opinions: Make judgments about what you are viewing and hearing. Do you agree? Do you disagree? Like? Dislike? Do you support or oppose anything that you have heard or seen? Why?
- This reminds me of…
- This is similar to…
- I wonder…
- I realized…
- I noticed…
- You can relate this to…
- I’d like to know…
- I’m surprised that…
- If I were ________, I would ______________
- If __________ then ___________
- Although it seems…
- I’m not sure that…
To be an active Voicethreader, start by carefully working your way through a presentation. While viewing pictures and listening to the comments that have been added by other users, you should:
While commenting, try to respond directly to other viewers. Begin by quoting some part of the comment that you are responding to help other listeners know what it is that has caught your attention. Then, explain your own thinking in a few short sentences. Elaboration is important when you’re trying to make a point. Finally, finish your comment with a question that other listeners can reply to. Questions help to keep digital conversations going!
When responding to another viewer, don’t be afraid to disagree with something that they have said. Challenging the thinking of another viewer will help them to reconsider their own thinking—and will force you to be able to explain yours! Just be sure to disagree agreeably—impolite people are rarely influential.
If your thinking gets challenged by another viewer in a Voicethread, don’t be offended. Listen to your peers, consider their positions and decide whether or not you agree with them. You might discover that they’ve got good ideas you hadn’t thought about. Either way, be sure to respond—let your challengers know how their ideas have influenced you.
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Katie MrossThis site explains the multiple aspects of VoiceThread, how to cite images used, and also gives example VoiceThreads used in classrooms.
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ahmed khalil"One of the best free tools available to teachers and students who are learning with the world rather than about the world is Voicethread. Known as a “group audio blog,” Voicethread allows users to record text and audio comments about uploaded images. Voicethread has two distinct advantages for classrooms that are communicating and collaborating across counties, countries or continents:"
collaboration resources tutorial education video tools technology learning voicethread web2.0 teaching audio podcasting podcasts podcast
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While the format may be different, the purpose remains
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One tool that can help educators to do just that is Voicethread.
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Marc SafranUsing Voicethread for Digital Conversations:
-Planning a Voicethread
-Commenting Tips for Voicethreaders
-Sample Strand of Comments
-Teaching Students to Create and Moderate Threads
-Teaching Students to Create and Moderate Threadsvoicethread etiquette howto teaching with voicethread voicethread guidelines digital conversations
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Planning a Voicethread
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Commenting Tips for Voicethreaders
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Teaching Students to Create and Moderate Threads
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abby chillgodd discussion of how to prepare a voice thread presentation and score one.
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students are crafting identities
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informal social learning
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working through personal values
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Matching this motivation and fluency with required elements of the curriculum
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group audio blog,
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discussion boards are nothing more than written text. Voicethread gives users something interesting to talk about---pictures! What's more, being able to actually hear one another makes digital communication through Voicethread much more personal.
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script out short opening comments for each image that include a question for viewers to consider.
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collecting a series of images
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not to lecture through pictures.
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promote conversation
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Stéphane MétralUsing Voicethread for Digital Conversations
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Roland O'DanielDarth Tator's great explanation setting up the expectations for the voicethread, responding, types of responses, and safe practices
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their use of anything that enables socialization while at school is deeply desired.
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we've systematically taken away the opportunities for socialization
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selecting a topic that will promote conversation and debate between students
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Diane Quirk on 2009-06-06
Topics that promote conversations, reflections, comparisons, and most of all THINKING
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jessica mascle on 2009-07-14
i need to model the creation if i'd like my students to create one
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The best Voicethreads are truly interactive—with users listening and responding to one another.
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Diane Quirk on 2009-06-06
EXCELLENT point! Interactive learning, responding and reflecting
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Voicethreading requires users to develop the skills that active thinkers bring to any learning experience
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Renee MooreBillF PD wiki on how to set up and use VoiceThreads with students.
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Elizabeth BagishBeginning with email and instant messages and stretching to texting and synchronous video web conferencing, digital dialogue has gradually become a common element of everyday life for today's students—another opportunity to “gather.” The kinds of personal relationships shaped on the playground in an earlier era are now developed in MySpace and Facebook. While the format may be different, the purpose remains the same: Our students are crafting identities and are driven to connect.
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Beginning with email and instant messages and
stretching to texting and synchronous video web conferencing, digital dialogue
has gradually become a common element of everyday life for today's
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another opportunity to “gather.”
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Carol O'Connor on 2009-04-30
This is cool!
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Sandra YatesOkay, now what?
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Our students are crafting identities and are driven to connect.
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et, what's odd about today's youth culture is that we've systematically taken away the opportunities for socialization
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Matching this motivation and fluency with required elements of the curriculum
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Consider this sample comment
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