Sunday, October 10, 2010
BP_5 Voicethread
Voicethread is a wonderful web 2.0 tool that's great for group communication in the classroom with your students or other teachers. Voicethread has so many features such as you can 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. VoiceThread inspires collaboration and expression with 5 innovative ways to comment. Collect the voices of an entire group on a single slide by computer microphone, telephone, text, audio file (MP3/WAV), and webcam.
VoiceThread supports dozens of standard file formats. VoiceThread supports PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (including Office 2007 formats), images, and videos. VoiceThread's innovative Video Doodling feature allows you to control the playback of a video, while Doodling and commenting on specific video segments.
VoiceThread makes embedding easy, allowing you to add interactive group discussions to any website. If you are a Moodle user, they’ve even developed a plugin that allows you to easily embed your VoiceThreads into Moodle. Voicethread can be played offline, stored on your computer, burned to DVD, or download to an MP3 player or mobile phone to play on the go. Exports cost $2.99 each or purchase 10 for $20. VoiceThread Pro accounts include 30 exports with purchase.
Our Technogals team members have demonstrated how easy and fun some of the Voicethread features are and what a great access this tool could be to you and your students.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
BP_4 Web 2.0 Tool
I've chosen Dropbox as my Web 2.0 tool for this week. I always find myself looking for my thumb drive when it's time for me to download my papers or some document that I 've created at home for school and can't remember whether or not I saved it on the share drive at school or where. So I subscribed to Dropbox and now I have access everywhere I go and it doesn't require me to keep up with a thumb drive .I just log into Dropbox at my PC or Mac even via iPhone and my documents are right there. It is free and simple to download. I've included snapshots of my page with folders that I have set up within my account. Try it!
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