Voicethread - from the Reading Rockets website

VoiceThread: Online Storytelling Made Easier

VoiceThread : Online storytelling made easier

VoiceThread is a storytelling platform gives students an independent voice in sharing what they've learned. An easy way to capture student voices, combined with flexible editing tools like image doodling and voice-over narration, allow students to produce meaningful content and learn digital skills as well. Video, audio, and photo content can all be uploaded to the site.

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See how teacher and PBS Media Infusion blogger Janet English uses VoiceThread and the new PBS series The National Parks in her classroom to help students develop personal narratives.

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IASL and Voicethread

Liz Probert posted this message on the school library listserv - it is a good chance to see something about the IASL conference and also to see an example of Voicethread which I did a post about earlier...
To see something about the IASL conference, have a look at http://voicethread.com/#q.b623055 - Elizabeth Greef from Australia has produced a really good example of the use of this technology, and her presentation gives a very good overview of the conference.

Voicethread

An article from Book Links magazine, July 2009.
Thinking Outside the Book: Responding to Literature with VoiceThread
By Jessica Mangelson and Jill Castek
VoiceThread is a free interactive online tool that allows students to create products and share them widely. These collaborative multimedia slide shows integrate images, documents, and sound files. Commenting on VoiceThreads is an essential part of the process. Through the interplay of multimedia and commentary, VoiceThread becomes an interactive environment that encourages literary response. Participants can post from anywhere, at any time, making it easy to involve groups in different time zones, or even different countries, in a single conversation. Viewers simply click on “Record” or “Type” to add a comment that appears in the border outside the VoiceThread, and the response becomes a part of the overall project.