Voice+Thread

=Lesson 4: Part 2= =Audio Visual Wizardry:= media type="custom" key="4101021"



Follow the steps below to gain an understanding of VoiceThread, to examine VoiceThread examples, and to create your own simple VoiceThread. The steps below are meant to display the relative simplicity of creating a VoiceThread for those who are unfamiliar with the program while laying a foundation of resources and ideas for the use of VoiceThread in your classroom.
 * Directions:**

A microphone A computer with internet access
 * Equipment Needed for this assignment:**

VoiceThread is an online tool which allows the user to upload audio, images, video, or text, either from the internet or from personal sources, to create an audio or text narrative to accompany the images or video. After the VoiceThread is posted online others can comment on your VoiceThread and leave their own audio, text, or video feedback. With VoiceThread multiple users can comment and provide feedback in one place for everyone to see. Play the example below for VoiceThread's definition of VoiceThread.
 * Step 1: What is VoiceThread?**

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 * Step 2: View the following VoiceThread examples:**

media type="custom" key="4117221" A homonym poem originating from the [|The Fischbowl] project at Littleton High School.

media type="custom" key="650753" A Spanish class example using VoiceThread to improve conversational skills from the [|Classroom 2.0] page.

K-2 3-5 6-8 9-12 Storytelling [|Non-specific examples]
 * Step 3: View an example from the grade level you teach and from a non-specific example:**

1) Open a new window so you can switch between this page of instructions and the VoiceThread site. 2) Enter the [|VoiceThread site]. 3) Click on "Sign in or register" and enter your name, e-mail address, and a unique password you will remember. 4) Click on the "Create" page and upload three pictures from your computer, Flickr account, Facebook account, or from an online website such as Google images using the "upload" button. 5) The pictures you uploaded can be reordered by dragging them. 6) Click on "add a title and description" to give your VoiceThread project a descriptive name, a one or two sentence description, and tags to help others find your finished project (examples: middle school math project, George Washington biography, or book report). 7) Click on "comment" to record or write commentary. 8) Click on the dialogue box asking you to upload a picture representing yourself and save the image after clicking "upload it." 9) Click on your new personal identity image and click on "create another identity." For an illustrated explanation [|click here]. 10) Upload a new image by clicking on "add an identity." 11) Provide a fictitious name for the new identity to replicate adding a student in your classroom who would now have the ability to participate in creating a group VoiceThread. 12) Now you can switch between identities by clicking on your identity icon. 13) Click on your personal identity and switch between the two. 14) Make sure your microphone is plugged in. 15) To record your voice to describe the first image click on "record" and then "allow." 16) The voice recorder will tell you it is recording immediately after beginning so have a script, outline, or rehearsed presentation ready. 17) After saving the audio comment switch identities and click on "type." 18) Type a text comment describing the image and press save. 19) The audio and text comments from each identity are now viewable for the first image. 20) Click play at the bottom of the VoiceThread to play your first part. 21) You are now ready to add commentary to your next image. 22) Click on the second image located to the bottom right of the VoiceThread next to the forward arrow and all of your images will appear on the VoiceThread screen. 23) Click on the second image which appears with the other two images you uploaded and repeat steps fifteen through eighteen. 24) Repeat step twenty-three for the last image. 25) Return to the first image and click on "type." 26) Click on a color from the color wheel to the bottom right and circle something on the image to add emphasis. For an illustrated example [|click here]. 27) Save the "doodling" you just added. 25) Use the left arrow next to your identity to rewind to the beginning and play the VoiceThread. 26) Click on "share" then "options" to set the viewing options. 27) Click on "share" and "embed" to copy the link to your finished product or to add the completed VoiceThread to your wiki site. 28) To embed a VoiceThread in your wikispaces site click on embed and copy the small version. Then lick on the "embed widget" in the wiki editor tool bar and choose "other HTML." Paste the copied URL and the VoiceThread will appear. 28) Click on "share," "options," and "sharing options" to the right to allow public comments and have someone else visit and comment on your VoiceThread by giving them the embedded website address. 29) The completed VoiceThread can be edited or deleted.
 * Step 4: Follow the steps below to create your own VoiceThread?**

[|Tutorials in VoiceThread form are available for various topics here] [|Frequently asked questions are answered here] [|Ed.VoiceThread] is a tool specifically for classrooms that costs $10 for a subscription and offers a more secure environment. A VoiceThread describing Ed.VoiceThread is available [|here].
 * VoiceThread Tutorials, Assistance, and add-ons:**

[|Literacy with ICT - IMYM Tutorials Wiki I] Voicethread 4 Education wiki
 * General Resources:**

When you have finished with Lesson 4, Flickr and Voicethread, proceed to Lesson 5: Organizing the Flying Monkeys
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