http://voicethread.com/#q
The website states, "A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or phone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too."
VoiceThread is able to be manipulated for all users. The VoiceThread website has a huge amount of examples. However, a great example of how VoiceThread can be used to advance the Creating Mind within First Graders can be found here: http://digitalstories21.wikispaces.com/PETE+and+C+2009. Once you press play, make sure that you click on the arrow to the right so that you can observe all of the slides.
The third VoiceThread down highlights how teachers can easily use a digital video camera to take pictures of student work and quickly upload the content to the web. This allows for a fantastic conversation to evolve. It can also be viewed here: http://voicethread.com/share/332534/
Overall, the main reason I appreciate this software is that is allows static presentations to become dynamic. In addition to pictures, teachers can upload PowerPoint presentations to the software, and then all of a sudden the presentation is able to be commented on.
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Educators can get special access to download a certain number of their threads as well from what I understand. You can create your thread, have students comment and then have a downloadable version to preview.
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