Voice Thread is a web 2.0 technology that involves log in to your own account (starting to sound familiar) and creating and sharing Voice Threads with others. These voice threads can consist of almost any media such as; Video, voice recording or pictures and photos. These things can be doodled on, spoken over and zoomed in on parts the creator wants to highlight. Once a voice thread has been created others can record or type comments that will stay attatched to the document.
I think that althought Voice Thread would make for amazing reading, speaking and listening activities in the classroom - It doesn't seem highly accessable unless you pay for the upgrade to pro or K-12 editions.
An activity I could do within a classroom using voice thread is to give the class (post on voice thread) a picture and ask the children to write or record the first and last sentence of a story about the picture. This would get the children using the technology and learning to think about plot and story structure in a new way.
Voice Thread is a realistic classroom technology if not for now then definitley the near future. The payment maybe needs to be tweeked and the whole thing could be properly ajusted to fully accomodate for schools; things like communication between accounts and control over what gets posted by students.
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