Voicethread

I am very excited to be trialling voicethread with my class. At the moment I am just teaching a few of the children in my class to become voicethread experts. I am showing them how to record their voice matching it to their image and storing it in voicethread, an exciting way to capture student voice. At the moment we are just doing a class trial. Looking at celebrations we have done some work around Diwali and the children now know a bit about this celebration. It is great to have them talk about what they know giving them a chance to speak uninterrupted. Looking to Myra's list of ways to use it, and thinking ahead to a second way to use it. I am thinking of putting a random picture eg: a stick, in the middle and asking students to tell me if this was in a story what would it be and its role maybe? They can then let their imaginations run wild turning it into a witch's broom, a sword, a tool used to make fire. Then they can play back each others comments and hear how many different identites this one object could take on. The kids are very enthusastic about trialling this new tool as with any new tool we have trialled this year. It is great to see how they take it on board and are willing to teach others. One thing I must set up, an idea which came from Marcelle was the idea of an experts wall around the computer. So that if students are on the computer during classtime and get stuck using one of the tools they can ask the expert rather than interrupting the teacher. Looking forward to what this next web tool can bring.