Voicethread

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What is VoiceThread?

Voicethread: What's a Voicethread anyway?

Turn your presentations into online collaborative conversations at voicethread.com. Upload your PowerPoint presentations, images, videos and annotate them with your voice, text, handwriting, and links. Invite others teachers or students to annotate or contribute to your VoiceThread presentations.

Comment Moderation: You have the choice to moderate comments added to your Voicethread.

Access: By default, VoiceThreads are private and not accessible to others who are not a part of the Dalton VoiceThread community. If you make a VoiceThread public, then you can link to it from a web page (or blog or Moodle) or embed it into a web page.

Student Accounts: We can create individual student accounts (recommended for Middle and High School students), or or you can create multiple identities within your Voicethread account (recommended for First Program students). Please note that comment moderation will not work between different identities--only between different accounts.

VoiceThread Examples

Ideas for Everyone

  1. Collaborative presentations
  2. Class book reviews
  3. Collaborative storytelling/radio/news program
  4. Student-created lessons

Language Arts & English

  1. FP House 23
  2. Discuss & Annotate Images
  3. Discuss & Annotate Film Clips

History

  1. Discuss & Annotate Maps/Historical Documents

Science

  1. MS Science: Observe & Answer Questions
  2. HS Science: Comparative Anatomy Journals
  3. Describe a Scientific Process
  4. Student Science Experiment Example 1, Example 2
  5. Science Experiment Tutorial
  6. High Speed Photography Tutorial

Math

  1. Solve Problems
  2. Demonstrate & Explain Concepts

Foreign Language

  1. MS Spanish: Describe & Compare
  2. MS Spanish: Conversation Practice
  3. HS Spanish: News Broadcast
  4. HS Mandarin: Language Lesson
  5. HS French: Presentation Archive
  6. Introduce & Describe Families

Art

  1. HS Painting: Class Critique

More Examples & Resources

  1. Voicethread for Educators (Ning)
  2. Voicethread 4 Education Wiki (Many Examples by Subject & Grade Level)
  3. Seventeen Interesting Ways and Tips to Use Voicethread in the Classroom
  4. Digitally Speaking Wiki on Voicethread (Tips for Planning & Commenting)

Creating & Sharing VoiceThreads

I. Contact The New Lab to setup your class VoiceThread Accounts

II. Organize & Prepare Your Content

  1. If you do not have text in your presentation, then organize your images, video and/or audio files on your computer or within your student or faculty account
  2. If you have built your presentation in Keynote, then export that presentation into image files (File-->Export-->Images-->JPEG Format, rename the exported files to include the .jpg file extension
  3. If you have built your presentation in PowerPoint, then you may upload that directly to your VoiceThread. If your PowerPoint includes images from the internet, please note that sometimes they do not display in VoiceThread. If that happens, then export your presentation into image files (File-->Save As-->Format: JPEG)
  4. NOTE: Web links will not transfer to your exported image files, you will need to add those again as you build your Voicethread
  5. Prepare an outline and script for recording your presentation in Voicethread

III. Login to VoiceThread

  1. Go to voicethread.com
  2. Click on Sign In (upper right corner)and enter your voicethread username and password

IV. Create a VoiceThread

  1. Click on Create tab
  2. Click on Upload to add images, movies, or Powerpoint presentations from your computer/student accout. Each image or movie you upload will create a separate Voicethread page.
  3. For each page, you may add Comments. Click on Comment to add your voice, a video comment, audio files, drawing, or text to your VoiceThread pages. For each page, you must add your Comments in the order in which you want them to play.
    1. If your teacher has created multiple identities within their account, then assume your identity: click on the Identity button at the bottom on the VoiceThread page and choose your identity.
    2. Title slides: Select slide and click Add a Title and Link in the left-hand corner of the main edit page
    3. Add a link to slide: Select slide and click Add a Title and Link
    4. Add your voice narration: Click Record (if you are recording narration over a video, choose to the option to play your comment instead of the video after you save your recording)
    5. Add a video comment: Click on the Camera button (for computers with cameras only)
    6. Add an audio file: Click on the Up Arrow
    7. Add written text: Click Type
    8. Add your handwriting: Click Type and choose your pen color from the color palette
  4. Name your Voicethread (you can only do this after you have added content)
    1. Click on Add a title and description
    2. Title your Voicethread
    3. Give your Voicethread a Description
    4. Tag your Voicethread: Tag your voicethread with keywords to help you find it later

V. Watch your VoiceThread

  1. When creating or editing your Voicethread, click on the first page and click the Play button, OR
  2. Click on MyVoice tab
    1. Click on your Voicethread
    2. Make sure you are starting on the first page
    3. Click the Play button
    4. Pages will advance automatically after the comments have ended (you can adjust the number of seconds between slides by clicking on Playback Options when you are editing your VoiceThread under the Create tab)

VI. Edit your VoiceThread

  1. Click on MyVoice tab
  2. Click to select your VoiceThread
  3. Click on the cog wheel in the bottom right corner and select Edit
  4. To delete a slide, select a slide and click on the trash can icon
  5. To delete a comment, select the comment and click on the trash can icon

VII. Share your VoiceThread

  1. After creating your Voicethread click Share
  2. Or, if you are on the MyVoice page, click on the cog wheel in the bottom right corner of your VoiceThread and select Share
  3. Select your class
    1. To share with the entire class, select the Comment Icon on the class listing so that it turns yellow (yellow = sharing is on)
    2. To share with just the teacher, locate the teacher in the class group, and click the Comment Icon on their profile so that it turns yellow
    3. To share with another student in the class, locate the individual in the class group, and click the Comment Icon on their profile so that it turns yellows
  4. To disable sharing, click on the Comment Icon again to turn it gray
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