DTTVoiceThread

What makes a good tool .... ideas to think about .... •Engaging to students and teachers •User friendly, easy to use •Easy to identify the benefit •Free … or low cost •Multi purpose •Across platforms, “mobile” •Easy to monitor student participation •Serves a purpose … easy to integrate to curriculum •Extends the learning … the tool is not the learning •Extends the skill … the tool is not the skill

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Improve student learning Improve teacher effectiveness Reduce paperwork

How do we do collaboration? Teaching / Learning

[|A Voice in the Cloud …..]

[|VoiceThread]



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According to .... The National Middle School Association "teachers and students are using voice threads as a story telling tool, a deep thinking tool, a research tool, an expository communication tool, and even an assessment tool."

Resources : [|Give Your Students a Voice With][|VoiceThread]

[|By Megan Power on January 31, 2011]

You Tube

[|Introduction to Using Voice Threads]

[|Educause][|: 7 things you should know about ….][|VoiceThread]

What do you think of the picture.... Has it come true?

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Voice threads with embedded questions. media type="custom" key="20508106" [|Sample Rubric for Voice Thread]

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VoiceThread As a teaching tool. Re -teaching tool Study guide. Highlighting information Skill reinforcement Lesson recap

As a "demonstration" of a learning Interpreting information Integrating knowledge and skills of knowledge Creating a portfolio Re-teaching a concept

Let's try this out ..... VoiceThread.com