Voice+Thread


 * Helping All Students Find Their Voice: Collaborative Discussions, Presentations, and Inquiry Using VoiceThread**

//__Speaking and Listening - Comprehension and Collaboration:__// 1. Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. 2. Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. 3. Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric. //__Speaking and Listening - Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas:__// 4. Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. 5. Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations. 6. Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. //__Reading - Key Ideas and Details:__// 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. //__Reading - Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:__// 7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
 * Related Anchor Standards**


 * Here's an example of a VoiceThread that an English teacher used to introduce John Steinbeck's //Of Mice and Men// to her students.**

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**Getting Started with VoiceThread**

 VoiceThread Tutorial - Here's a short YouTube video that introduces the basic functions of VoiceThread.

Setting up a free VT Educator account - Heidi Everett-Cacopardo, who lead the VoiceThread session at last year's institute, created this screencast that walks through the steps of registering for the free basic educator account that VoiceThread offers, which allows you to create up to 50 VoiceThreads.

Creating Identities in a VoiceThread account - Here's another screencast that Heidi created demonstrating how multiple people can use a single VoiceThread account.

**Example VoiceThreads**

What's a VoiceThread anyway? - This VoiceThread provides an in-depth (and lengthy) interactive demonstration of how to use VoiceThread as well as several examples of actual VoiceThread conversations that people have created. You can even add your own comments to these conversations (once you have an account).

Examples of VoiceThreads for Education - On her Google site about VoiceThread, Heidi has compiled several outstanding examples of VoiceThreads that teachers and students throughout the world have created. These examples cover a range of grade levels and curriculum areas. Read through the descriptions of the various examples, and take a look at the ones that you find most interesting or relevant to your teaching. Since many of the presentations are rather long, remember that you can jump to different parts of the presentation using the arrows at the bottom of the screen.

**Further Information**

The **Support** tab on VoiceThread has user-friendly instructions, tutorials, and further information about several features discussed above, such as the basics of using VoiceThread, registering for an account, and creating multiple identities, as well as additional features, such as embedding VoiceThreads in other websites. Check it out.

Explore Heidi Everett-Cacopardo's Google site about VoiceThread to see several resources (in addition to those linked above) for using VoiceThread in the classroom.

Want more than the free basic educator account? Click HERE to see the other options that VoiceThread offers (for a fee).