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VoiceThread
Have you ever used a Swiss Army knife? They're so useful: a tooth pick, knife, saw, scissors, wine key, and more. That might just be what VoiceThread is to the virtual learning experience.
VoiceThread allows you to create a recorded experience that you and students can interact with collaboratively. It can be as simple as a voice-over PowerPoint (with comments and questions) or as complex as a Spanish language roundtable where you and the students hold an entire conversation in the target language.
You can upload slides, videos, images, and documents. You can even record your audio and video directly into the platform through your computer or even by phoning in your audio.
VoiceThread has been used to support Spanish language acquisition, mathematics, martial arts instruction, painting and drawing classes, and so much more. This dynamic platform really provides many ways for you and your students to engage each other in multimedia discourse.
VoiceThread has been used to support Spanish language acquisition, mathematics, martial arts instruction, painting and drawing classes, and so much more.
If you need students to deliver asynchronous presentations, do workshop critiques of one another's work, listen to your lectures asynchronously, or do annotations of scholarly works, VoiceThread offers you the tool to do it.
First, create a VoiceThread account, then start by imagining a space where your students might need to ask questions or have conversations.
Once you've got that space identified (workshop, seminar, critiques, roundtables, lectures with Q&A), consider who will be creating content.
If you know how everyone will be interacting, then you will want to set up your VoiceThread to either allow everyone to add their own slides/content to the VoiceThread or only allow the students to comment on content you've added.
Of course, you will want to make sure you have your assignment together so the students know who's doing what. Then, lastly, you want to model for the students just exactly what you expect. If you're simply doing an asychronous lecture, put up your slides with voice-over narration (and/or video content), and then put up the first comment. Show them what comments should entail or what types of questions they should be asking.