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Using VoiceThread in the classroom.... Jumping into the unknown

Voicethread explained better than this page 1. What is a VoiceThread? (5 minutes) media type="custom" key="7219891" [|What is a VoiceThread?]

2. Examples of VoiceThreads (8 minutes)  [] Going on a line Hunt (geometry)  24 Game (Math)  [] Using an image with a written prompt  [] Social Commentary The Situation in Darfur  [] Debate on issues Language Censorship  [] The Prediction Key What will schools be like in 100 years  [] Retelling a story The Titanic  http://seventoeight.wikispaces.com/Yr+7and8+The+Arts+Ideas Art assignment: Repetition [] Linebackers skills, reads and development [|¡Ay! No me siento bien.] [|La familia Rivera] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Justo Lamas] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Cómo cocinar una tortilla española] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|French search using " francais"]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">3. You try it! Click [|this link] and in the BROWSE window, type in a topic that you are currently studying or will be studying. Check out VoiceThreads that have been made for that topic. (5 minutes)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">4. 24 Interesting ways to use VoiceThread in the classroom (10 minutes) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> []

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">How to continue with VoiceThread if you are interested:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">5. An educator’s guide to VoiceThread <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> [|http://ed.voicethread.com/media/misc/getting_started_educator_mp b.pdf] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Educator’s free account: []

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">6. Getting started in the classroom <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> [|http://ed.voicethread.com/media/misc/getting_started_in_the_class room.pdf] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Creating identities <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">media type="custom" key="7219887"

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">7. Making a one minute VoiceThread <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">media type="custom" key="7219923" <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> []

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">8. Comment moderation <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> []

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">9. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">[|Voice Thread rubric] [|Voice Thread Rubric 2] [|Voice Thread Rubric #3] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">10. Ideas for using Voice Thread:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">From your teacher page, create a presentation with pictures that contain your chapter vocabulary. Type a question that appears with each image and then have students record a response to the question. Alternative: don't use a prompt, let students create their own.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Use Voice Thread for vocabulary reinforcement in form of an assignment. Students log into their own account and create their own. Have them select 12 - 15 vocabulary words from the list that they don't think they'll remember easily (not cognates or review words). Upload pictures that represent the word and record a sentence using that word.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Do a sports commentary on an athlete

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Edmodo] As a teacher I can create classes and with a code my students can enroll. Once enrolled in the course, they can add their cell phone number for texts, Twitter username, or email address where they receive alerts that I send reminding them of quizzes and tests. Phenomenal to have a way to remind students about assessments and other information. You don’t personally have to have their cell phone numbers to send them these text alerts. Edmodo has features that could allow a teacher to use it as his or her classroom website with a calendar, grading feature, and message board. It has a polling feature which is great for a warm-up, students can use the message board for discussion in or out of class, a library to store classroom documents, useful links commonly used in your classroom or homework assignments for example. I anticipate there are endless uses but for now I plan to stick to using it as a communication piece and wait to find an extra pocket of time to integrate its other features in my classes. FREE and EASY!