I am excited to say that I completed my VoiceThread activity with my students! It went really well! The students were able to understand how to use VoiceThread with only minimal instruction. I feel what helped the students the most was allowing them to go up to the computer and record their comments in pairs. They were able to help each other use VoiceThread. I created a step by step picture guide for the students to refer to if they got stuck.
The next time I use VoiceThread, I will make sure that it compliments the content well. VoiceThread should be used as a tool for communication between students and I feel an ongoing activity might bet better suited for VoiceThread. I would like to have adequate time to allow all of my students to interact with each other on VoiceThread.
Our final product:
VoiceThreading:
1. to communicate ideas using more than one of the senses 2. to connect
with an audience in an authentic and simple manner 3. a discussion that
simulates a live presence.
How did you achieve this type of communication in your lesson?
How were your students able to effectively use VoiceThread?
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This is a good introductory VoiceThread use, Stephanie. Even more efficient for the teacher and more effective for the students would to have had only a couple of slides. Slide 1: What is less than a gram? How do you know? Slide 2: What is more than a gram? How can you compare this to another object less than a gram?
ReplyDeleteStudents would then have to either provide an audio comment or a video comment in which they show their item and answer the questions. That way, multiple responses are provided per each of the questions, rather than static response screens.