I chose to explore VoiceThread this week, which is a neat tool that allows you to easily put audio to pictures. It's a great way to create a picture slide-show, and insert descriptions to go along with it. Since it's a Web 2.0 tool, everything can be accessed online. If you go to Voicethread.com and create a username and password, then simply go to to "Create" and get started. You can upload pictures from your computer, online, or you can take pictures from your own webcam. In addition to pictures, you can upload videos or presentations and simply click the "comment" button and add audio.
This would be a fantastic tool in the classroom because it can spice up a slide show or presentation, and it would be a great tool for students to collaborate and work on projects. It would allow students to utilize both pictures and audio, which is a nice change from just verbal presentations. I also think it would be a good tool for material for kids who missed a day in class, they could just watch the presentation and here the lecture to go along with it. Very cool.
Clearly I didn't embed this right, I still need some work... Here's the link to it too though
http://voicethread.com/share/2353753/
Appreciated the rationale of using this wonderful tool in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteTo EMBED, simply copy the coding from the Embed/Sharing option in Voicestream; THEN, Edit this post and select the EditHTML button and paste your coding. That should do the trick.