As part of the NCS Library’s "Teaching Tools on Your Time" series, we are hosting a new Alternative Presentation Tools training
session on one of the hottest new sites in education: Voicethread.
What is Voicethread?
Voicethread is a unique collaborative presentation application, kind of like a PowerPoint that encourages users to comment upon each slide. Instead of "slides," however, you can add multiple kinds of content, including videos, images, text documents and more.
It may be hard to think of how you might use this service in the classroom at first, but many educators are using Voicethread to great effect.
- Create a collaborative study guide, with audio comments to lead a discussion
- Have students use a private Voicethread to collaborate on a project from different locations. Each student can comment upon one particular slide, all as part of a group project.
- Narrate your PowerPoint lessons, encouraging students to comment upon ideas or topics raised.
Each time a user comments on a Voicethread, their comment is added to the end of a playlist. This way you can "watch" a voicethread in a way similar to a Youtube video. It's incredibly easy to create a Voicetherad, and even easier to comment upon a previously-created Voicethread.
Schedule a Training
To set up a time for training, email Chip Chase and list your available times.
We are still training users on Glogster, so if you'd like to learn how to use that website, let us know.
Also, if there is a specific technology tool that you would like to implement in your classroom, but not covered in our Teaching Tools on Your Time website, please let us know and we'd be glad to help provide training for you or your students.
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