Donna F's List: Voicethread

Higher Ed blogs in teaching from Kristen Kozloski, Ph.D.

Description

We used blogging as a reflective practice in my course on Designing Multimedia for Learning. This is an example of our final reflection, as a class, of that blogging process. We also had another class join our reflection and post their ideas as well. It is a great example because it shows how this tool can be used for reflection and to join classes together on a topic in a way that was never before possible.

Benefits to students

* VoiceThread notes: Students learn to use technology.
* Students are introduced to new-literacy applications.
* Students reflect on value/usefulness of blogging in education.

how to use VoiceThread

We’re very happy to announce that over 700,000 historical images from The New York Public Library’s Digital Gallery are now freely and instantly available whenever you’re creating a VoiceThread. Our new Media Browser allows you to search or browse these primary source materials – maps, photos, drawings, paintings, posters and more, and then import them directly. Links back to the original location of the images on the web are automatically inserted to make citing and attribution easier for you and your students

Mr Miller shares startling images of child labourers by Depression-era photographer Lewis Hine, which he uses to engage pupils less comfortable with text. He shows the scene from the Johnny Cash biopic, Walk the Line, in which the young Cash's brother dies in a similar accident. There is a short delay and collective intake of breath before the clip plays successfully.

The screen, visible to all involved, has multiple purposes. Most of it is taken up with the successive images Mr Miller uses; an arrow controlled by his mouse whizzes around the screen highlighting details; the top right-hand corner is filled with live webcam footage of whatever Mr Miller is doing; below is scrolling text with reactions from around the country.

Text comments come thick and fast. There are practical queries ("Can we get the source of the photos?"; "Do we know the age of the girl?") and poignant observations ("That's a fantastically sad picture.") There is also some banter with a teacher who is teased for joining the throng late.

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online voice recording service that is super easy to use (and it doesn’t require a login or password.) After you’ve recorded your voice, you can email the audio file to someone, embed it into your blog, wiki, or webpage, or save it to your hard drive.

"Resources

* Wissahickon.ed.voicethread.com - WSD's VoiceThread Domain
* WSD VoiceThread Documentation - Help for getting your classes set up and how to use WSD's VoiceThread domain.
* VoiceThread Getting Started - Nice pdf on how to get started using VoiceThread in your classroom.
* Other VoiceThread Tutorials
* VoiceThread FAQ
* VoiceThread Ning Group
* VoiceThread Help Discussion Forum
* VoiceThread Resources and Examples by Traci Blazosky
* Using VoiceThread for Digital Conversations
* VoiceThread for Education Wiki"

"Using Voicethread for Digital Conversations

1. Unrelenting Desire to Interact
2. What is Voicethread?
3. Planning a Voicethread
4. Commenting Tips for Voicethreaders
5. Sample Strand of Comments
6. Assessing Voicethread Participation
7. Teaching Students to Create and Moderate Threads
8. Sample Voicethreads
9. Voicethread Handouts
10. Sources for Images
11. Citing Images"