In the past, I had the pleasure of hosting a monthly webinar and Hangout series for VoiceThread, as part of my role as VoiceThread's Higher Ed Learning Consultant. Below is a list archives of the webinars which are great learning resources for faculty.
List of past webinars:
Click here to access webinar archives with transcripts.
- Learning Out Loud: Is it the Missing Link in Online Classes?
- Diversifying Instruction in Large Lecture Classes with VoiceThread
- Watch Learning Bloom: Understanding, Analyzing, Evaluating, and Creating with VoiceThread
- Visual Thinking: an Experiment in Student-Led Learning
- Refreshing Pre-Service Teacher Training
- Reframing Visual Arts Instruction with VoiceThread and Goody Bag
- Reinventing Language Learning with VoiceThread and Goody Bag
- How to Save Time with VoiceThread for Moodle and Goody Bag
- Supporting All Learners with VoiceThread and Goody Bag
- Integrating VoiceThread Into Your Campus-Wide Teaching Toolkit and Goody Bag
- Tips for Supporting Student Success with VoiceThread and Goody Bag
- Making Sense of Assessments and Goody Bag
- How and Why to Flip Your Class with VoiceThread
Guides
- How to Participate in a VoiceThread - Shared with a Creative Commons license
This is a how-to guide explaining how to leave a comment in a Voicethread. VoiceThread is an online discussion tool that provides opportunities for community building and learning, centered around visual media. This guide was written to be generic enough for instructors to share with their own students. - Student Instructions for VoiceThread - Dedicated to the Public Domain
These instructions are intended to be shared on a webpage for students to reference as they use VoiceThread for the first time. You are free to use a piece or all of the instructions without crediting me. This item has been dedicated to the public domain through a CC0 license. - How to Create a VoiceThread - Shared with a Creative Commons license
VoiceThread takes online learning to new heights. If you're new to VoiceThread, grab the key pointers in this guide and run! Written by an educator who has presented to educators across the nation about the value of VoiceThread for cultivating personalized, community-oriented online learning experiences. - Sample Rubrics - Shared with a Creative Commons license
Determining how you will grade a collaborative activity can be a difficult process. This document provides a few a simple, yet clear, examples of a how a rubric can be used to assess student participation in a VoiceThread. - Collaborative VoiceThread Lesson Plan - Shared with a Creative Commons licenseThis is an activity I use in my History of Photography class that utilizes a VoiceThread as a wiki-like environment. I create a VoiceThread "shell," share it with a "Group" in VoiceThread comprised of my students, and grant each student "Edit" access to the VoiceThread. They each review a list of photographers I've provided, select one and sign up for it on a Google Doc, research the photographer in Google Books, and then upload two photographs by the artist into the VoiceThread along with two comments: one providing an overview of his/her work and contributions, and a second with a discussion prompt for other students.
Videos
- 10-Minute Tour of a VoiceThread Learning Activity
- How to Find Answers to VoiceThread FAQs
- How to Create a Fully Secure VoiceThread (3 brief videos)
- How to Edit a VoiceThread You've Created (Adding & Deleting Slides)
- How to Contribute to a VoiceThread Someone Else Has Created
- How and Why to Create a VoiceThread Group
- How to Share a VT with a Group (Option 1)
- How to Share a VT with a Group (Option 2)
- How to Embed a VoiceThread in Blackboard
- Providing Vision Friendly Viewing Options for an Embedded VoiceThread
- How I grade a VoiceThread
- How to Edit Your Identity in VoiceThread
- How to Facilitate a Discussion in a VoiceThread (w/ identities and moving comments)
- Using VoiceThead to Assess Visual Analysis Skills
- Using VoiceThread to Assess Deep Learning -- Online!
- Using VoiceThread to Facilitate Warm, Reflective Online Learning Experiences
- An Excerpt of a Post-Class Discussion in VoiceThread
A Few Favorites
- Interdisciplinary Magic! 4th graders are taught about the Japanese internment camps. They then create works of art illustrating the prisoner's experiences and write letters in the voice of a prisoner. The artworks are scanned and uploaded into a VoiceThread. Students read their letters while leaving voice comments around the artworks. Then (this is the truly magical part), the link is shared with internment camp survivors and they leave comments in response to the children's letters. Truly inspirational! That's learning at its finest.
- Foreign Language: Video clips from a movie were uploaded into a VoiceThread. Italian students developed a script for the characters and recorded them in the VoiceThread as the movie played. That's creative!
- Discussion in Sign Language. Frequently VoiceThread is imagined to be a barrier to students with hearing challenges. But do you know that one of VoiceThread's first major higher ed clients was Gallaudet University? They immediately saw the potential in VoiceThread's easy to use web cam commenting feature to open doors to online discussions in sign language. Check out this example and be amazed.
