OBEA - VoiceThreads: Transforming Media with Video, Voice and Text (Hands-on)
Bill Schreiter
Handout:
http://tinyurl.com/obeavoicethread
Workshop Description: Your students can publish their voices to the world. VoiceThread can be used to create digital stories that your students will know will be viewed and commented on by their peers. Too often we ask students to publish only for their teacher. As the audience becomes larger, the quality of student work improves. VoiceThread combines digital images or video in an on line media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio, or video (with a web cam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world. Participants will learn how to record their voices. A teacher account begins with a $10 registration fee (for the year) and you can then add your students to your account for no additional cost.
Introductions:
- Interview your elbow partner and be prepared to report
- His/Her name,
- Grades/Subjects taught, and
- the one thing that would make today a total success
VoiceThread Overview:
- Present Wesley Fryer's Slideshow as an overview to using VoiceThread
- Create ed.voicethread.com accounts for all participants
- firstname@plattsville.ed.voicethread.com password=welcome
- Demonstrate the import options for pictures, video and audio
VoiceThread Basics:
StoryMap:
Create and Share a Story:
- Create a story with your elbow partner using pictures that you could take in the room. It must have some sort of transformation.
- Take the pictures
- Upload them to VoiceThread
- Narrate the story
- Share the Story with another team
- Review the other team's story and leave an audio and text comment using the Say Something sentence stems.
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Video files are at times very confusing. A flash file in the form of a .swf file can be opened using a browser and will show the video inside of the browser. A flash file in the form of an .flv file needs to run inside an flv player such as the free
Applian FLV Player. Both can be inserted into Smart Notebook and run inside the notebook software.
Downloading video