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VOICETHREAD

VT

Mary Ewald

What is Voicethread?

• No software to install• Use voice: mic or

telephone• Use text, audio file, or

video file• Link to URLs  

  

• Doodle tool to point out target object (s)

• Moderate comments• Multiple Identities • Embed or export as movie

files• Free or Paid accounts  

Voicethread Tutorial

Mary Ewald

"The average science course requires a student to learn the same number of new vocabulary words he or she would learn in a foreign-language course." (Roots-Bernstein, 2011)

Voicethread Science

Teach and review vocabulary

Pronunciation of vocabulary – know how an item is said

ComprehensionQ & A DialogueDiscussions

Negotiation, clarify, ‘self-check’ reflection – understand the ‘whats’

Resources for deeper understanding

Produce ‘sensible narratives’

Feedback and modeling: audio and text

Better problem solvers in science

• Pronunciation of vocabulary•  

• Identify vocabulary. Answer in complete sentences. •  

• Listen. Read. Talk. Write more sentences.•  

• Words build sentences. Sentences build paragraphs.•  

•  Writers produce 'sensible narratives.'

Voicethreads by Mary Ewald

                                      and      The Plant Cell   Photosynthesis

More resources atDIIGO

Voicethread is the section I designed for a group project in CEP 810 with (Jenny Hancock, Suzanne Reinhardt, Tara Swanepoel), Web 2.0 Writing Across the Curriculum