Voice thread

Hey hey! I'm super excited about the voice thread. I'm kind of freaked to be teaching online in the fall for the first time. I feel I translate best in person. I make noise, jump up and down, yell, get excited and I fear I will lose that online. Now, my students can witness my crazy (almost) first hand! God, I think this tool is useful in so many ways, its like having your own virtual whiteboard or smart board. I can post an image and ask students, I can hear their voices or see them! All without leaving home! I know I could use Wimba for this type of thing, but this seems so much easier!

What ISTE NETS T would you consider this activity most closely matches and why?
First of all, I'm sure I'm shooting myself in the foot for saying this, but I'm not sure what this is!
I'm bookmarking this page, however!

I think this tool matches number 2, Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments, the best.

a. design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.

b. develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress.

c. customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.

d. provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.

I think this tool suits point "c" the best. Coming from a lot of background on different learning styles, this tool really does a good job at providing analytical, social, conceptual and theoretical learning outcomes. I learned that something as simple as moving your desks, or standing up once during class to stretch re-engages the student's minds and can recharge learning. The very nature of this tool does that! A student can adapt it to his or her learning preference!



Learning outcomes:

What is a voice thread?
A voice thread is a tool or application that allows the instructor and students to communicate in a myriad of ways. You can link to video, slide shows, images and more. Then students can write, discuss, draw or have a web cam video of themselves communicating and learning together.

How can it be used in any learning enterprise?

For Art: students or I can draw on any given image, discuss reactions and influences, hear or read each others thoughts!

For French: students can hear correct pronunciations at home, even when in a face to face classroom, can speak themselves and be graded on accuracy and corrected for improvement.

For all others: it is a way to connect people both in visually and verbally. At my old high school, certain classes were on an RSS feed, so if a student was sick, they could still be in class. This is no different. If a student were to have computer and Internet access, they could participate, and learn extra-curricularly from home.
Holy moly! I just read the description again and forgot about embedding video, and slide shows! This tool has such potential! I hope we get to use it again soon and I can't wait to try it out this fall!