Welcome- Introduce Yourself

Welcome to our NEW Voicethread for Educators Group! Please take a minute to say hi, what you teach, ideas for this group, maybe a VT or two, and of course, your Twitter/Plurk other Social Networking site handle that you may use.
Good luck and once again welcome.

Mark

Tags: Voicethread, educator, group

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Permalink Reply by Mark Carls on August 9, 2010 at 11:09am

Good luck with VT and this Ning group. I like the webpage and see you do Vocab Lists. I would think you could build Voicthread's around those words. A couple ways, putting a picture to describe the word and having students write out what the word is. *You can moderate comments so they don't see what others wrote*. Or, simply uploading a word (or multiple) as a Word document and then having them use the words in a sentence? Just some ideas? I'm sure others have ideas. I know a few districts here love using Spelling City as well.
Good luck.

Mark

Permalink Reply by Mims on August 10, 2010 at 6:45pm

Thanks Mark. Those are great ideas, something to liven up the Vocabulary words.

Permalink Reply by Hugo D Gunawan I on August 9, 2010 at 2:26am

Hi everyone! I used to use Voicethread before. Now, I am going to use it as I am going to have more stories published and have my students really involved in using technology. Glad to have you also doing voicethread...

Permalink Reply by Jim Cottrell on August 12, 2010 at 7:21pm

Name: Jim Cottrell/ Bouncing positions but I will be teaching 7th grade Life Science in Twentynine Palms, CA.

Permalink Reply by BSD on August 16, 2010 at 7:07am

I am a big Voicethread advocate- I'm Barbara De Santis and I support technology in our district (K-12, 7 schools). From special education students, to math, to Spanish, to Mother's Day greetings- our staff uses Voicethread. It is easy to learn- I think that is a big reason why many teachers continue to use it. With the addition of video, I had a class film and thread their baby chicks hatching!

Permalink Reply by Kimberly James on August 16, 2010 at 2:39pm

Howdy! I'm Kimberly James and am an assistant professor of music at the University of Montana. I created a group project for my philosophy of music course using VT. Some of my students loved it - others don't seem interested in group work or social networking tools. Ah well. I'm hoping to use VT again this coming year in my voice diction courses. We shall see . . .

I've twittered. I've plurked. I've friend feeded. I've blogged. Can't keep up, so I'll not share those handles/addresses for now. Looking forward to learning from you all!

Permalink Reply by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich on August 30, 2010 at 4:32am

Hi, I'm a children's author interested in using Voicethread (and other Web 2.0 tools) for writing workshops and as part of my school visits and in online instruction. I've spent years as a teaching artist in classrooms, communit organizations, etc.; I got my Master's in Educational Technology and love working with students (early childhood-secondary school) to combine creative writing and multimedia authoring techniques.

my Web site: http://wwww.olugbemisola.com

Permalink Reply by Barbara Hampton on September 4, 2010 at 7:50am

Hi - I'm an academic reference librarian and have consulted with a private K-8 school for gifted & talented students. I'm part of the planning team for our upcoming regional g/t conference, New England Conference on the Gifted and Talented, 21-23 October, in Hartford, CT. We have several technology workshops scheduled. I see technology, especially the "social" tools as a vital way for g/t students to be a part of a community of interest which is often geographically disconnected.

Permalink Reply by Janice Friesen on September 12, 2010 at 2:59pm

Hi, My name is Janice Friesen. I work in an elementary school in Austin, TX. I am always looking for ways to excite the teachers I work with to use technology. Voicethread was one thing that just hooked a bunch of teachers. It is easy to use. I hope we will do more with it this year. Here is one VoiceThread I made about how to find and use pictures provided by the program http://voicethread.com/share/706391/. My Twitter is jfriesen, Skype is janicefaustin , my professional website is http://jfriesen.net and my blog is http://malahinitx.blogspot.com

I am looking forward to another year of learning from you!

Janice

Permalink Reply by apoole@madeira.org on September 14, 2010 at 11:00am

Hi, all!

I am an Ed Tech Specialist at an independent school. My primary responsibility is to support teaching and learning of technology tools for 400+ faculty, staff, and students. For the past two years I have introduced a number of Web 2.0 tools and the faculty has been adopting them VERY gradually. Over the summer a couple of teachers used VoiceThread for students to comments on the summer reading assignment. I am going to recommend they tap into this group as a resource.

Permalink Reply by Holly Atkins on November 4, 2010 at 1:23pm

I'm a middle school language arts teacher on sabbatical and teaching at the University of South Florida (and hoping to finish my dissertation soon). I'm going away for a conference and would like to use VT to have my grad students engage in discussions during the week we won't be meeting face to face. Students take turns creating presentations on a chapter in the book and engage the class in a discussion. I'm hoping VT will allow us to do that in a virtual world. I'm new to VT -- any suggestions about making this happen would be greatly appreciated.

Permalink Reply by Jason Graham on November 6, 2010 at 6:14am

Hi my name is Jay, I am originally from Vancouver, Canada but now call Melbourne, Australia home. I am currently a grade 1 teacher at an international school in Bandung Indonesia. I have used VT with grade 1 to tell strories and share research. We have also used VT in our Moodle. I am looking to collaborate with like minded lower ES teachers who want to use technology.