VoiceThread

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This is to test a new Web 2.0 tool called VoiceThread. For me, it has potential for my online courses, so I thought I'd try it out here. See what you think. You click on the facebox on the side to hear me speak. You can add comments right on it either audio or typed by clicking on the appropriate box; or, of course, you can comment on this post in the usual way, should you feel so inclined. Commenting on the voicethread would be nifty, though, because then I'd see how it works. I suppose you might have to sign up to comment - I don't know.

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[gillo]

I don't have a microphone, so I'm commenting in the boringly usual manner. It strikes me that his has quite a lot of potential - presumably you can have a sequence of pictures with the same voice-over, so you could actually explain and demonstrate as you go along?

What will they think of next?

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Yes - you can do a "book" with a whole collection of photos each with its own comment. And of course it's not limited to photos - any image you upload can have commentary added to it. So you could make a gif or jpeg diagram, upload it and add comments. Or lines of poetry... the possibilities are endless. And it's really easy to use. It's not clear about whether it will always be free, but it says somewhere that it will always be free for educators, so that's a good thing.

[gillo]

So in effect it has the potential to be an online lecture with PowerPoint display. Without the bozo who insists on reading aloud every word on the slide too, of course!

Cool.

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With the added advantage that anyone with an invite can also collaborate, so you can have contributions from the class, questions and answers etc. You can have one account with many users, so for example I've seen one where there are kids recording poetry and it's all in one place.

It really is very cool. Simple, but very very effective.