Voice+Thread

= = = = = = = = = = = = VoiceThread allows uers to create collaborative, multimedia slide shows that hold images, documents, and videos. Teachers can share VoiceThreads with students, colleagues, or others so they can leave comments. Viewers may leave comments in five ways -- using voice (with a mic or phone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam). VoiceThreads can be embedded on other websites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archived video.

Connections to Strategies

 * Summarizing - students summarize and leave voice notes
 * Notetaking - share documents and ask students to add voice notes
 * Collaborative Learning - multiple students contribute to a single VoiceThread

Learn About VoiceThread
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How to Create a VoiceThread - One-Minute Tutorial
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Look at Some VoiceThread Examples
[|Summarizing Tall Tales] - an example of how VoiceThread can be used for summarizing [|Educational VoiceThread Projects] - a wide variety of VoiceThread projects that connect to multiple instructional strategies [|100 Ways to Use VoiceThread in Education] - a VoiceThread about using VoiceThread in education

Activity - Use VoiceThread for Summarizing or Notetaking
> you may want to watch it once, then go back and leave comments
 * 1) Create your own VoiceThread account - it's free and easy to do. Go to VoiceThread, click "My Voice" and in the window that opens click "Register"
 * 2) Leave at least one voice comment **and** one written comment on this VoiceThread: [|Compelling Photos from 2010]
 * 1) Create your own VoiceThread using at least three pictures related to something you are teaching or want to introduce to your students. Have students comment by summarizing the idea, concept, procedure, etc. you are showing them. Use the step-by-step instruction handout and the one-minute tutorial above for help. NOTE: you do not have to do the "Share" part, just create it. Make sure your VoiceThread publishing options allow **anyone** to view and comment.
 * 2) Embed your VoiceThread on your //Summarizing & Note Taking// page. Then write a few sentences about what you think of this tool and how it might be used for summarizing or note taking.


 * For additional help with this activity, refer to the step-by-step instructions: [|VoiceThread.pdf]**

**Additional Tools for Summarizing and Notetaking**
Summary Frames - a series of questions that the teacher provides to students to highlight the critical elements for specific types of information (questions taken from //Classroom Instruction That Works//, Marzano, p. 35-41)  [|The Narrative Frame]  [|The Topic-Restriction-Illustration Frame]  [|The Definition Frame]  [|The Argumentation Frame]  [|The Problem/Solution Frame]  [|The Conversation Frame]

[|Summarizing and Notetaking] - eMints National Center

 [|Activities for Summarizing]  [|Summarizing and Notetaking Templates]  Cornell Notes ReadWriteThink Notetaker Fact Fragment Frenzy