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[|Ed.VoiceThread] is a secure K-12 collaborative network, restricted to K-12 students, educators and administrators. The accountable environment on Ed.VoiceThread allows students to have their own accounts, work independently, and develop their own portfolio of work, safely and securely. For more details visit __**[]**__.



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VoiceThread allows you to create online demonstrations or host conversations around an image, document, or video.
 * Upload your photos, documents, presentations, videos, etc.
 * Leave audio, video or text "comments" to narrate each slide or to solicit comments from other people.
 * A very collaborative and interactive way to produce a slide show.

VoiceThread is a great way to integrate technology into storytelling. It allows you to combine voice, text, video, and images to create a digital story. Once you create the voicethread, others can also leave comments on it by recording, filming or writing a text. Voicethread is also a great opportunity to collaborate with other students from all over the world. Kids can draw their own pictures and talk about it, or create their own stories and record their voices while telling it to others. They can talk about their animals by putting their pictures on a slide on voicethread or families. We can record our voices and read stories to kids to listen at home. This tool can help our kids to improve their listening, speaking and writing skills.

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[|VoiceThread Training Videos]

[|1-Minute Tutorial]

[|VoiceThread Tutorials]



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[|VoiceThread FAQ]

VoiceThread Resources

=VoiceThread Examples=

__Examples__

 * The Great Depression: Poetry for Two Voices
 * Amazing Hug
 * Letters from the Internment Camps
 * Picture Writing
 * [|My Hero Jack London] - VoiceThread and iMovie combined.
 * True and Memorable - Project for the novel __The Bonesetter's Daughter__. VoiceThread and Wikispaces combined.
 * [|Mein Bester Freund]- German "Give your Gnome a Home" project.
 * [|Ma Nouvelle Camarade de Chambre] - French "My New Roommate" project.



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Chemistry Lab VoiceThreads

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Possible Classroom Uses:

 * The possibilities for integrating VoiceThread into a writing curriculum are endless.
 * Consider creating threads to share personal narratives, short stories, research projects, or poetry slams.
 * Check out one class’s poetry book on [|this web site] . This project could be expanded by having students choose a picture to represent their poems and asking other students to tell what they liked about each poem or what they thought each poem meant.
 * Classes can create or take pictures, then ask each child to talk about the images. Each child can comment on the SAME pictures, creating a collaborative collection of responses.
 * After a field trip or special class event, you can assign groups of students to explain each of the digital pictures you took and how they relate to curriculum topics.
 * Students can critique, compare, contrast...works (art, writing...) of their own, of fellow students, from different time periods...
 * In language arts classes, students can scan and comment on writing pieces as part of a reflective phase of the writing process. Or post an image as a prewriting activity and allow students to respond orally in an idea-generating phase.
 * "Round Robin" writing activity- one student starts the voicethread, the next student takes it from there.
 * Use in place of short stories or projects, presentations, book talks, etc.
 * In social studies, have students provide a picture of a grandparent then narrate what they learned about that grandparent from interviewing him/her.
 * Have students create narrated pictures as gifts (for parents or other care givers) for special occasions, winter holidays, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, etc..
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">During a science experiment or demo, have a student take pictures of the steps. Then ask students to "narrate" them by commenting on what is happening.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The narration assignment could even be a center activity or an assignment on a few classroom computers for students to rotate through. What a great way to review and apply key vocabulary!
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Narrated local history projects (pictures of local sites), audio "museum tours" of artifacts (photos) or war veterans telling their stories along with images of their uniforms or old photos.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Speech/language, ESL/ELL or early childhood teachers could use this tool to promote vocabulary development and oral expression.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Use for whole-class instruction, recording voice and doodle annotations for students to view for extra practice or remediation and to support absent students.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">[|Embed VoiceThreads into Discovery Education writing prompts, quizzes, assignments, and assessments.]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Use as a more interactive alternative to photocopied images and maps to allow students to zoom in and explore.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Have students comment on teacher-created Voicethreads as an alternative to traditional homework.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Use student comments on a Voicethread as a way to open class discussions to involve all students.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Have students use Voicethread to create presentations as an alternative to PowerPoint.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Host debates- one slide for "pros," one for "cons"
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Visual literacy- discuss the meaning of art, advertising, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Prewriting- generate ideas/phrases/action words orally before writing.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Writing- write original poems and post a corresponding image.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Language development- respond to a visual or repeat a correct pronunciation.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">PLC/Professional Development Conversations.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Share your "threads" on your classroom web page, blog, or wiki!

[|100 Ways to Use VoiceThread in Education]

[|Using VoiceThread to Build Student Engagement]

[|Using VoiceThread for Digital Conversations]

[|Using VoiceThread for Writing Ideas and for Peer Marking]

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[|VoiceThread in Education Wiki- Lots of Resources and Great Ideas for Using VoiceThread]

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=Other Tools=

Basically this application allows you to add your voice/narrate an image- how cool is that! Upload a photo and then record your voice directly through your computer to create a talking photo. The possibilities in a classroom setting are endless- Book Talks, Visual for poetry, review concepts, language acquisition, etc. It is free, but you will need to register with an email account. <span style="color: #555558; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">There is a 60 second recording limit and Adobe Flash is required.. ENJOY!

** Applications for Education ** [|Fotobabble] could be neat little tool for students to use to share brief stories. Students could find pictures related to news stories the record an audio caption about the story depicted by the picture. Over time your class could build a collection of audio captioned news images by embedding each of their Fotobabble creations on a class blog or wiki.

[|FottoBabble Video Tutorial]

[|FottoBabble Training Videos]

[|How to Integrate FottoBabble]

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #006699; font-family: 'Century Gothic',Tahoma,Geneva,'Trebuchet MS','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Sketch Cast lets you record a sketch with or without voice. This can be great to explain something, create art, or just for fun. Then you can share these creations or embed them into projects or on your class website.

[|SketchCast Training Videos]

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