This document provides an outline for a presentation on how to use VoiceThread, an online tool for creating and sharing presentations. The presentation will demonstrate how to sign up for a VoiceThread account, explore different options for creating presentations, and view example VoiceThreads. Attendees will brainstorm uses of VoiceThread in the classroom and learn how to create and comment on their own VoiceThread. The presentation encourages participants to attend an advanced VoiceThread session on Friday to learn more about the tool.

1. Intro To VoiceThread
Bob Sprankle
BLC 2010

2. Who am I?

3. My Assistant!

4. Where am I?

5. It’s all on the Wiki!

6. WHAT THE HECK IS IT?

7. BLAH BLAH BLAH
Come learn about one of the simplest and yet most
powerful tools on the Web today. Learn how VoiceThread
can be used in a variety of ways in your classroom to
capture and share authentic learning. We will examine
how to sign up for an account, the different options in
creating presentations and the benefits afforded to
educator accounts. We will also look at example
VoiceThreads in order to see best practice and get
inspiration for your own projects.

8. OUTLINE
Why VoiceThread?
See examples of VoiceThread being used in education
Brainstorm ideas for use of VT in your classroom
Tour VT and Options
Create your own VoiceThread Account and leave
comments on common VT
... Make your own VT with images, voice & text
comments
See ADVANCED Session on Friday! Come Back!

9. Technology “Infusion”
• Connection to Self
◦ In order for work to have real meaning, students must have a significant interest and even
personal connection to the work. Without this, the work is artificial, forced, and carried out in
isolation. Work WILL be Engaging
• Connection to Others
◦ An understanding that people are social by nature and therefore will be motivated by a
collaborative curriculum.
• Work Must Be Meaningful or Purposeful
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◦ An acknowledgment that it is a fundamental and universal human desire for people to want
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to do work that is meaningful or purposeful. People want a job to do and gain great
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satisfaction in doing that job.
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• Work Must Have an Authentic Audience
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◦ In order for work to have real meaning, it must reach a true audience as well as have
OW and Sustainable
significant impact on the world outside of the classroom.
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• Work Must Be Lasting
In order for work to have real meaning, it should have permanence.
• Students will be Prepared
◦ With Teachers along using the tools with them as role models/mentors

10. Open the Windows
• quick
• interactive
• visual
• collaborative
• multi-purposes
• different
approaches
• Conversation Image: 'breathing building'
www.flickr.com/photos/49014237@N00/391241407

11. LASTING AND SUSTAINABLE

13. Examples
DEMONSTRATE LEARNING TUTORIAL REFLECTION
DISCUSSION/
TOUR HOME CONNECTION
ASSESSMENT

14. EXPLORE
TIME

15. http://voicethread.com/
library/

16. BRAINSTORM
Brainstorm ideas
for using
VoiceThread in
the Classroom
http://piratepad.net/vtsprankle

17. TOUR

18. TOUR

19. TOUR
You are an Educator!

20. TOUR

21. Storage has
dropped

23. SIGN UP!

28. Don’t Worry... you can come
back to these!

29. PLENTY of Tutorials!

31. Pros/Cons of Identities

32. Pros/Cons of Identities

33. Pros/Cons of Identities

34. From the “Reader” Side

35. TIME TO CREATE

36. UPLOAD

37. SHARE

38. DECISIONS

39. WHAT’S THAT SPEECH
BUBBLE ALL ABOUT?

40. V O I C E T H R E A D A D VA N C E D
FRIDAY July 16th, at 1:00 - 2:15 pm during session 11