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Voicethread, A Great Tool To Help Heat-Up Your Lessons

Kim Thomas June 2010

**What is a Voicethread?**
http://voicethread.com/about/k12/ Simply put, it is a simple (relatively speaking) students and teaches can use to create and collaborate on documents and stories.

Let's start by looking at some examples. As you are watching and listening be thinking about where they would fall on Bloom's Taxonomy.

**Voicethread examples**
What level on Bloom's would these be?
 * 1) http://voicethread.com/#u16506.b617266.i3283314
 * 2) My Voyage with Columbus http://voicethread.com/#q+digital+storytelling.b282886.i1485196
 * 3) Problem solving strategies http://voicethread.com/#q.b163901.i873468
 * 4) Three Little Pigs http://voicethread.com/#q.b1391.i15629
 * 5) Letters from the internment Camps http://voicethread.com/#q.b334997.i2942065

Now, let's get started by signing up and exploring (if bandwideth allows). You may need to work in pairs or teams of 3.

Tutorial for getting started with Voicethread. http://www.cdkedplace.info/cdkedplace/Week_9_files/VoiceThreadATutorial.pdf Example: http://voicethread.com/share/1221221/ (Got link from one I built.)media type="custom" key="6420309"

Misc resources for digital storytelling and Voicethread
"One of the best ways to enhance student learning, boost student achievement, and improve student engagement is to incorporate digital storytelling as an instructional strategy. Students can demonstrate their knowledge of content, develop higher order thinking skills, improve their digital literacy skills, and harness the power of visual literacy in digital storytelling projects. "
 * http://digitalstortytellingjune2009.wikispaces.com/ (Created by Kim Thomas)
 * http://greatbookstories.pbworks.com/ (Welcome to Great Book Stories by Rick Amaral) Some of the links for books are dead.
 * http://teachdigital.pbworks.com/voicethread (Digital Storytelling with Voicethread by Wesley Fryer)