One of this weeks tool was Voicethread. This is tool that allows student to share thought comments or simply have a conversation around a document, image or video. It can be used for collaborative or individual story-telling or for commenting on documents and other resources. Voicethread a free online service. You can either be embedded the thread in blog or web pages or linked, if you like. You can also doodle on the picture as well as the spoken comments.
This tool seems to bring together several tools similar to: twitter,power point,one note; into one place. This I think is great, because it lessens the number of things that you have to upload on the students computer, giving you more bang for your buck, so to speech!
As the girls said there are many way in which you could use voicethread. A quick google gave heap of potential teaching applications. In my search, I also found that Voicethread wa
s place 18th in a list of the top 100 web tools for learning this year, so I'm not the only one to see it worth.
s place 18th in a list of the top 100 web tools for learning this year, so I'm not the only one to see it worth.So what is my final rating for Voicethread.... 9/10 .....in the toolbox it goes.
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