For this week’s Day in a Sentence,
Kevin over at Kevin’s Meandering Mind chose to use VoiceThread, a great multimedia tool that can incorporate many voices: Click here to go to the conversation.
I find the concept and possibilities of VoiceThread captivating. People can contribute to a conversation in five different ways: computer microphone, telephone, text, audio file, and webcam.
They can upload images, videos, and slide shows. And they can “doodle” while commenting. (I uploaded the audio that I recorded on my cell phone, since my mic wouldn’t work, and it’s obviously not as good quality as the others.)
In a technology-rich classroom, this could be an awesome learning tool! In one “conversation,” called 100 Ways to Use VoiceThread in Education, educators from all over the world have contributed ideas on teaching using this collaborative tool.
Here’s a transcript of my sentence:
“This has seemed like the longest short school week ever; I know it’s because I’ve gotten completely spoiled after a long Christmas break and then only a week of school afterward before exam week hit, and then we had another holiday AND a snow day (which was the first in forever around here and coincided providentially with the historic inauguration none of us wanted to miss); in fact, I may have been even less ready to return to school two hours late Wednesday than my students — nahhh.”
Updates
- 1/26/09 :: Added a semicolon to my transcripted sentence, thanks to my editor/husband’s sharp eye. Too bad he was already asleep when I finished this last night…
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