Voice+Thread

[|VoiceThread] Digital storytelling with the ability to have text, audio, video, or doodle commentary on each slide. You must have a VoiceThread account in order to create or comment.

You can set preferences to allow others to comment as well. [|VoiceThread] is an interesting, easy to use web-based environment for digital storytelling and there is an [|education portal].

**World Language & VoiceThreads**

 * VoiceThread is a unique, easy to use tool in that it allow you to upload media (images, video, documents) to the web. Students can comment on each piece of media via sound recording, phone, text, and even drawing. VoiceThread is all about communication! VoiceThread s can be private or public.

This is a photo from Spain. What do you think it means? After thinking about it, let's go to http://ed.voicethread .com/#q.b48359.i253549, and find out!

Students can: -Comment using their second language in various ways (voice,video, text, doodle) -Collaborate with others from all over the world -Speak/Write/Doodle in a nonthreatening environment comments can be erased and redone until the teacher disallows this feature comments can be heard by the whole class, or just by the teacher comments can be recorded anywhere -Speak/Write/Doodle to an authentic audience -Increase speaking time through asynchronous participation -Comment on comments -Playback vocabulary and or conversations as many times as they need for processing and memorization

Teachers can: -Upload and have students comment on documents, images, or clips that have already been created -Doodle on photos to point out various features or parts of an image -Collaborate with teachers/students from all over the world -Create an authentic audience for students -Allow students to comment anywhere, anytime - asynchronous participation -Use VoiceThread s as alternative assessments, formative assessments, or as logs of student improvement over time -Increases participation and practice- students can record and listen over and over -Comment on comments -Talk about Digital Footprints- online responsibility, safety and behavior -Use photos from a wide range of sources, such as copyright free sites, personal photos, student created pictures, personal scanned images.. -Share with families ||

**__Reasons for use__**

 * A different way to do a "slideshow" or any type of presentation.
 * Present information with real world images and music to make it more relevant and authentic.
 * Digital storytelling.
 * Synthesizing information taught in class, read from the textbook, researched online, gathered personally, etc.
 * Independent reading projects / book reports.
 * Collaborative so students can work together and also comment on each other's work.

**__Ease of use__**

 * Once the user learns the basics of how to create and comment on the VoiceThread, very easy.
 * Can upload photos, audio, video, documents, presentations, etc.
 * Can record comments with text, audio (microphone or telephone), and video.
 * Can embed in any web space that accepts HTML code such as wikis, blogs, Moodle, websites, etc.

**__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


 * VoiceThread Educator's Guide**

[|VoiceThread-Educator's Guide] - Get more [|College Essays]

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 * VoiceThread Tutorial in VoiceThread**

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 * Fourteen Interesting Ways to Use VoiceThread in the Classroom

**__Examples__**

 * The Great Depression: Poetry for Two Voices
 * Amazing Hug
 * Letters from the Internment Camps
 * Picture Writing
 * [|My Hero Jack London] - VoiceThread and iMovie combined.
 * True and Memorable - Project for the novel __The Bonesetter's Daughter__. VoiceThread and Wikispaces combined.
 * [|Mein Bester Freund]- German "Give your Gnome a Home" project.
 * [|Ma Nouvelle Camarade de Chambre] - French "My New Roommate" project.
 * Do you have more VoiceThread examples? Please send them to Dianne Krause.

[|Langwitches]describes how she used it with her students and how to get started.

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 * Spanish example - [|La familia] and [|a story about a horse].
 * French example -media type="custom" key="5848497" Spanish test example media type="custom" key="5848695" media type="custom" key="5848727"
 * Chinese - [|student example in Chinese,] a [|student sample about the zodiac animals], this [|example] has a teacher record a speech sample and the students repeat and record and here students can hear [|colors].
 * French - a simple use for [|French vocabulary on professions]
 * Even Kindergarten students can use VoiceThread
 * Read more about how educators are using VoiceThread - there are many examples here
 * Even more World Language examples

**Sample WL VoiceThreads**

 * Most of the VoiceThread s I am including on this page are in Spanish or French. Others are in English, included simply because I feel that they are good examples of the types of activities you can do with voicethread s in any language.

You can also find your own, by going to VoiceThread, clicking browse and typing the targeted language into the search.

Oh, and I added a final category (More Resources), since I didn't know until fairly recently that some of you (not in WL) were coming today. Welcome!

**English** Where are you? http://voicethread .com/#q.b1191.i13695 Connect with anyone, anywhere!

World Travels http://voicethread .com/#q.b462.i3670 Inspire the kids to become world travelers. When I was 16, my french teacher inspired me to make Le Mont Saint Michel a goal. I went, and when my kids were the same age, I took them too! My daughter wrote about her experience for her college essay.

What Could it Mean? http://ed.voicethread .com/#q.b48359.i253549 Cultural photos from all over the world.

Monster Cards http://voicethread .com/#q.b236.i1783 Take a photo of a child's artwork. Then use it for a <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: black; display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">voicethread.

Picture Writing http://<span style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">voicethread .com/#q.b119840.i725907 Tell a poem, story, fairytale, and ask questions. Have your students change the ending.

Getting a New Haircut http://<span style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">voicethread .com/#q.b4622.i36067 A <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: black; display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">VoiceThread can be about anything! I love the "voice" in this thread. A day at school, or a new haircut.

Did you know? http://<span style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">voicethread .com/#q.b562.i4705 Here is a way to include specific content.

La Familia Rivera http://<span style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">voicethread .com/#q+spanish.b28303.i154945 One way to talk about families.
 * Spanish**

Mi Familia http://<span style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">voicethread .com/#q+spanish.b56838.i293555 Another way to talk about families. Also an example of a student project.

El Caballo Mysterioso http://<span style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">voicethread .com/#q.b100276.i521843 A digital story created as a group project.

A Conocer San José Costa Rica http://<span style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">voicethread .com/#q+spanish.b84617.i429972 How about a tour?

¿Que pasa en la playa? http://<span style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">voicethread .com/#q+spanish.b189515.i1003247 My favorite place! || French was my second language. Wish I could remember it all!

**French** Qui suis je? http://<span style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">voicethread .com/#q+french.b107401.i549075 Pronunciation and vocabulary

Voici Sylvie http://<span style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">voicethread .com/#q+french.b93187.i474716 A great example of using the drawing tool while teaching vocabulary!

Ma Maison http://<span style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">voicethread .com/#q+french.b109798.i567414

Colors for Grade 1 http://<span style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">voicethread .com/#q+french.b147868.i777283 I would love your input on this. How does it fit in with your philosophy on second language acquisition?

French Fun http://<span style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">voicethread .com/#q+french.b252218.i1317555 Don't you just love kids?

French Café http://<span style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">voicethread .com/#q+french.b213563.i1118711 Yum Yum!

@http://voicethread.com/ I have no idea what they're saying, but it looks like they're having fun!
 * Chinese**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: black; display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">VoiceThread 's education site has a wealth of k12 ideas and examples. Click Browse and type a subject area in the search field to find examples.
 * More Resources**

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill gives us a great way to think about using <span style="color: #741b47; display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">voicethread s in all content areas in order to demonstrate, explain, interpret, practice, analyze, report, critique, show off, and have fun!

K12 <span style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">Voicethread Wiki

If you'd like, you can also go to a cultural exchage and comment on the thread. ||