Voice Thread for Teaching

Students on Voice Thread can be both producers andconsumers of the content within each digital container, referred to as a thread. Each page features apicture, video, word document, PowerPoint slide, etc. Creators of a VoiceThread can act as a presenter by using recordings, called comments, which are captured on audio through a microphoneor telephone, through video using a web camera, or through text. Alternately, the creator can inviteother users to leave their own comments or input on the thread. A VoiceThread is navigated somewhat like an online book, where users can skip to any page of the thread and even draw or write over top of the media while leaving a comment. It may have only one page or as many as a hundred.Viewers can turn the pages manually or can passively watch and listen to the thread, similar to a slideshow. Viewers also have in their control the ability to skip to any slide at any time, listen to or see anycomment at any time, and zoom in on any portion of the slide.

The most two interesting Voice Thead from our classmates are Suger's The TV shows we watch all the time and Ying's The princess in the Disney World.

In Suger's "The TV shows we watch all the time", She give us many picuture's about the movies in America, that are popular movies in our daily life, I think students may be very interested in the movies, while waching the movies, students can not only learn some american culture but also pracitice their listening while listen to what the actors saying, because they want know what happened next, and they have to listening, at this time, their listening is improing. They can also learn some slang which they seldom know from their daily life and then improve their oral English.

On Ying's "The princess in the Disney World". We could know all kinds of pricess through the student's disscusstion. Student's could share information about what they want to know from what they discussed, sometimes they may not know other roles of the princesses, but through the disscusion, they may rewatch the moives and changed their ideas and then learned the story more specifically.