What is VoiceThread?

A Voice Thread is a collaborative,multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways-using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).  You can Share a Voice Thread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments.

With Voice Thread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world.  All with no software to install.

How to work the tool.

With Voice Thread you can click on a person face to hear a person comments,  It lets you add video's, upload a clip, comment, review and discussions.

Users can dooldle while commenting, use multiple identities, and pick which comments are shown through moderation.  Voice Thread can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other websites and exported to MPS players or DVDs to play as archival movies.

What I do with it in my content area.

Voice Thread can be used online classes, art , discussion, drawing converstation, group discussion, presentations, drawing, telephone, webcan, microphone.

One example is of Voice Thread where a teacher introduces the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck to her English class.  This Voice Thread is intended to have the students start discussing the setting of the book using the image on the cover of the book and the first couple of paragraphs from chapter.  The teacher starts the Voice Thread by providing the instructions for what she expects the students to do for their Voice Threads.

Another example reveals how Voice Thread can provide stuedents with authentic reasons to reread, to improve fluency, and think abou the purpose of the story.  The following Voice Thread is the work of an elementary student/teacher telling the story of the 3 Little Pigs in collaboration with her family.  The student narrrates the story and her parents act out the characters in the story using different VoiceThread accounts that represent the Big Bad Wolf and each of the 3 Little Pigs.  The students ends the story with explaining the moral of the story in her own words. http://ed.voicethread.com/?#q.b1391

Colorado State Standard 

1. Comprehension and Fluency Matter when reading Literary texts in a Fluent way

4th Grade

Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly

and when drawing inferences from the text. (CCSS: RL.4.1)

Literary

1. Reading 

Fourth Grade

Citations:

http://voicethread.com/#q+english.b153041.i816684