Hi everybody,
This was a totally new experience for me as I've never used voice thread before. It was a great experience and hope to use it in the future in my classes. This resource is new to me, but the planning and making of the power point slide wasn't. Some of it came easy, and some not so much, but I figured it out with time. I have made power point slides before so that part was easy, including the adding pictures and text.I simply looked up pictures of what I wanted on the internet using google and used my snipit tool on my computer to copy the images that I wanted. I saved those images to my computer under whatever name of the slide they were going to be used for, then inserted them into the power point one at a time on each slide. The hard part for me was to figure out how to "publish" the slides to make them into pictures. I went through several different ideas before I finally saw publish slides and decided to give it a try. Then another thing I was unfamiliar with and a little uncomfortable with was making the actual voice thread for the pictures. I am not comfortable with audiences, and this was just like that. I don't like being recorded so it was a challenge to sit and actually do it. Luckily nobody in my house was judging me. When I finally got the slides published, I was able to upload the pictures into voice thread with no problem. After that I couldn't get my microphone on my computer to record so this was a computer glitch. I fixed it by going into my settings and enabling my microphone which can you believe it I haven't used since I bought the computer 5 months ago almost. So after enabling the microphone, I was able to record one slide at a time and give speaking directions on how to make my product. Then I was able to go into my settings and copy my link to get to my voice thread for all of you to watch.
I do think this could be used in a great way in any classroom. I see younger kids using it with teachers watching and helping along the way.You could use this while reading a book or making a story up with a class and having them be the artists and draw the pictures for the story. Also, they could do this for simple routines throughout their day for individual projects. I was very impressed with how much you could add in the free edition. For older grades through high school, the students could research something they enjoy doing and give directions on how to do it, for example; learning how to work on cars, painting a certain way, crafting something, etc. Anything could be done with this type of tool in the classroom as long as there is supervision because things could also go wrong in the classroom where students unload inappropriate things because that's what high schoolers do. I plan to do more research on how this type of tool can be used in a classroom as I am not sure what else I would do, but it would be a great tool. With that said, here is the link to my voice thread.
http://voicethread.com/new/share/6905686/
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