Voice Thread is another example of a Web 2.0 tool with tremendous potential for education.

Create a slide presentation, but don’t stop there. Add sound, text, additional pictures, icons, popups if you want them, all Web-based. If you want to keep it private, you can. If you want to share it, you can. Registration is required, but there is no fee.

• A teacher can gather and present background information as a prereading activity.
• Emerging writers can publish their stories. They have the pride of seeing something of theirs online, and their anonymity is carefully protected.
• Collaborative teams of all age groups can present multigenre projects related to their reading. Book reports and literature circles would never be quite the same!
• Classes in different locations can “meet” here and share information about their hometowns. (Big city/small town? East Coast/West Coast? Baton Rouge/Paris, France? Chicago/Sydney, Australia?)
• A teacher can record a demonstration. Absent students can access it later.

When you visit the site, be sure to check out the “elephant” and “classroom” links. This will be a great site to play with over the summer and have an idea or two ready when school starts again.

Thanks and a tip o’ the hat to Kevin Jarrett at ncs-tech.org!

Posted Tue, 29 May 2007 00:01:53 and filed under Technology. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.