VoiceThread: Can You Hear Me Now? An FETC 2010 presentation by Lee Kolbert and David Fisher.

1. Can You Hear Me Now?
Lee Kolbert
David Fisher
Palm Beach County School District, Florida

2. Backchannel and Link Sharing:
http://todaysmeet.com/canyouhearme

3. What is a VoiceThread?
Curriculum Applications
Creating Your Own
Moderating/Sharing
Free or Not?
Things You Might Not Know
What’s Coming for
VoiceThread? (New/Beta)
Educator’s Library

5. It’s for conversation
around media.
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Media:
Word docs,
PowerPoints,
videos, PDFs,
images, MP3‘s,
spreadsheets, and
more!
You!
http://voicethread.com/share/304973/

6. Student teacher in Canada
created these slides on
Canadian explorers.
Each of my students chose a
slide and compared/
contrasted to a Floridian
explorer.
http://voicethread.com/share/727738/

7. Curriculum Applications
David Fisher

8. Let’s Create, Comment and Share

9. Free or Not?
http://voicethread.com/pricing/k12/

10. You Might Not Know...
If you delete a thread, it’s GONE!
If you delete an avatar/identity,
you also delete ALL comments
and threads associated with that
identity.

11. You Might Not Know...
Comment and annotate on a video while it’s playing
(while you leave a video or audio comment).
http://voicethread.com/share/21651/

12. You Might Not Know...
Download media w/ right-click

13. You Might Not Know...
Export finished VT to .mov (burn copies for your class)

14. You Might Not Know...
Bookmark a VT by “subscribing.” The VT will now appear on
your MyVoice page.

15. Brand New!
Daily Digest of
Comments on Your
Threads!

16. Increased Student Capacity by More
Than 300%
http://voicethread.com/pricing/k12/

17. Increased Student Capacity by More
Than 300%
http://voicethread.com/pricing/k12/

18. Increased Student Capacity by More
Than 300%
http://voicethread.com/pricing/k12/

19. Breaking News!
Support For Non-Latin Text Characters
What does that mean?
Someone types in Chinese, Arabic or
Hebrew but you don’t have those fonts.
Thanks to VT technomagic (and the “VT
Fontinator”), you’ll see the text comment in
the language intended without any
additional work on your part!

20. Coming Soon:
VoiceBook:
Hardcopy books of your favorite VoiceThreads; with sound!

21. More Great Examples
Foreign Language Learners
Global Collaboration
Language Development
Real World Math
Science: Environmental Issues
Historical Primary Sources

22. Educator’s Best Practices,
Lesson Plans & Resources
http://voicethread.com/library/
Educator’s Guide to VoiceThread created by Michelle Pacansky-Brock

23. Download this Presentation:
sites.google.com/site/edtechlearning