First Grade VoiceThread

Check out this presentation by first graders who are retelling the story of Wangari's Trees of Peace by Winter. I am SO impressed with their drawings, their voices, and their use of technology! You will be, too!

Think what they are learning: reading, writing, speaking, illustrating, presenting, sequencing, summarizing, AND technology!

See more examples of VoiceThread for every grade level at the VoiceThread in Education wiki.

What do you think?

Here's a chance to try VoiceThread and earn some extra credit. I think VoiceThread is a good alternative to Powerpoint and allows for collaboration. From the website:

VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or phone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.

Users can doodle while commenting, use multiple identities and pick which comments are shown through moderation. VoiceThreads can even be embedded on web sites and exported to MP3 players or DVDs as archival movies.

With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install. See: What's a VoiceThread?

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So comment on one (or more) of the three slides. Comments are moderated, so you won't see (or hear) them until I approve them. Be sure to leave your WHOLE NAME so I can give you credit! A text comment is worth 5 points. Recorded or phoned in comments are worth 10 points. Video comments are worth 15 points. You can leave up to three comments, but only one on each slide. You should be able to click on the VoiceThread below to begin (although it is reduced in size to fit and may be difficult to see), or go to the "What Do You Think?" VoiceThread. (Click on the title in the previous sentence!)



Browse more VoiceThreads here.