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VoiceThread—Session 1: Introduction Come learn about one of the simplest and yet most powerful tools on the Web today. Learn how VoiceThread can be used in a variety of ways in your classroom to capture and share authentic learning. We'll examine how to sign up for an account, the different options in creating presentations, and the benefits afforded to educator accounts. We'll look at example VoiceThreads in order to see best practice and get inspiration for your own projects.
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Intro To VoiceThread
Bob SprankleBLC 2010
My Assistant!
Where am I?
It’s all on the Wiki!
WHAT THE HECK IS IT?
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Come learn about one of the simplest and yet most powerful tools on the Web today. Learn how VoiceThread can be used in a variety of ways in your classroom to capture and share authentic learning. We will examine how to sign up for an account, the different options in creating presentations and the benefits afforded to educator accounts. We will also look at example VoiceThreads in order to see best practice and get inspiration for your own projects.
OUTLINEWhy VoiceThread?
See examples of VoiceThread being used in education
Brainstorm ideas for use of VT in your classroom
Tour VT and Options
Create your own VoiceThread Account and leave comments on common VT
... Make your own VT with images, voice & text comments
See ADVANCED Session on Friday! Come Back!
• Connection to Self◦ In order for work to have real meaning, students must have a significant interest and even
personal connection to the work. Without this, the work is artificial, forced, and carried out in isolation. Work WILL be Engaging
• Connection to Others◦ An understanding that people are social by nature and therefore will be motivated by a
collaborative curriculum.
MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS!• Work Must Be Meaningful or Purposeful◦ An acknowledgment that it is a fundamental and universal human desire for people to want
to do work that is meaningful or purposeful. People want a job to do and gain great satisfaction in doing that job.
• Work Must Have an Authentic Audience◦ In order for work to have real meaning, it must reach a true audience as well as have
significant impact on the world outside of the classroom.
• Work Must Be Lasting and Sustainable◦ In order for work to have real meaning, it should have permanence.
• Students will be Prepared◦ With Teachers along using the tools with them as role models/mentors
Technology “Infusion”
Open the Windows• quick
• interactive
• visual
• collaborative
•multi-purposes
• different approaches
•Conversation Image: 'breathing building'www.flickr.com/photos/49014237@N00/391241407
LASTING AND SUSTAINABLE
Examples
TOUR
TUTORIAL REFLECTIONDEMONSTRATE LEARNING
HOME CONNECTIONDISCUSSION/ASSESSMENT
EXPLORE TIME
http://voicethread.com/library/
BRAINSTORM
Brainstorm ideas for using VoiceThread in the Classroom
http://piratepad.net/vtsprankle
TOUR
TOUR
TOUR
You are an Educator!
TOUR
Storage has dropped
SIGN UP!
Don’t Worry... you can comeback to these!
PLENTY of Tutorials!
Pros/Cons of Identities
Pros/Cons of Identities
Pros/Cons of Identities
From the “Reader” Side
TIME TO CREATE
UPLOAD
SHARE
DECISIONS
WHAT’S THAT SPEECH BUBBLE ALL ABOUT?
V O I C E T H R E A D A D VA N C E D
FRIDAY July 16th, at 1:00 - 2:15 pm during session 11
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