Wednesday, September 9, 2009

VoiceThread Project

The focus of this workshop is to demonstrate how VoiceThread can be used in the classroom to enhance learning. Examples from science, math, and language arts will be provided. VoiceThread is an engaging technological tool that promotes discussion and interaction between teachers and students. The group has collaborated and created this workshop in the hopes that you will walk away feeling confident about incorporating the strategy in your curriculum.


Workshop


Examples


  • Rebekah's Persuasive writing--check out this blog for more information This Voice Thread focuses on brainstorming for a persuasive prompt from the 5th grade writing test which would be applicable for 4th and 5th grade students. Brainstorming results in a much better paper, but students don't always want to brainstorm because they think it is a waste of time. Getting the students interested in brainstorming and convinced that it will help goes a long way to helping them write a better essay.
  • Betsey's Changes in Matter VoiceThread--check out her blog for more information This project was designed to present information on changes in the states of matter in a way that would be both informative and entertaining to a 5th grade audience. Throughout the VoiceThread students are introduced to the changes in states of matter through a set of characters known as the Water Molecule Family.
  • Michael's Problem SolvingVoiceThread --check out his blog for more information This Voice Thread shows how problems can be posted for students to discuss and solve. The discussion will help those who understand the problems teach others as well as for those who don't understand as much to learn form their peers. The discussion also has students revisit skills practiced during the day and allows our students an avenue to talk in the language of the standards.
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3 comments:

  1. Betsey KennedySeptember 13, 2009 at 8:59 AM

    Everything looks great. I have some big shoes to fill as I lead the ComicLife project:)

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  2. Big DawgSeptember 13, 2009 at 11:53 AM

    The voice threads created in the project are a great examples of different uses for the software. Although these are just a few of many uses, our examples should give the attendees to the workshop an understanding of how easy integration of this software can be. It is interesting to me that since it is free software why schools and their systems are not creating integration workshops themselves.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 13, 2009 at 4:51 PM

    I would venture to say that 99% of the teachers at my school have never heard of Voice Thread, but I am going to share our workshop with them. I'm hoping that when they see how easy it is to use and how great it will be to engage the students, they will jump in with both feet.

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