Voicethread.com (online resource)
June 4, 2007 by Paul Hamilton
Welcome to this Treasure Chest of Free Stuff.
The purpose of this blog is to highlight free downloadable programs and online resources of good quality that may be of value to educators and their students, especially those involved in special education.
Voicethread.com (online resource) Here’s another free Web 2.0 application that deserves to be well known and widely used. Voicethread lets you upload images and then record audio comments to accompany the images. Anyone who then views a voicethread can also be given the opportunity to add audio comments. Alternatively, comments can be typed. A Voicethread may consist of a single page with one uploaded image, or there can be multiple images , with each image on its own page. If desired, captions can easily be added to the images.
The user interface could hardly be any more straightforward. It is a cinch to upload images, record comments. Each voicethread is assigned a unique URL that may be either public or private. It’s easy to invite someone to a voicethread; and subscription is also available. The creators of Voicethread have provided convenient options for embedding voicethreads in blogs and on websites. (Unfortunately, this doesn’t yet work on Edublogs.)
Check out the examples below that show what a few early adopters have already done with Voicethread. I suspect that numerous private voicethreads are already connecting classrooms and students in different parts of the world as well.
Animals-Ms. Swanson’s 2nd Grade
Flat Stanley Visits Yardley PA
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Voicethread sounds to be cool. You can browse images and submit audio comments. Havent tried that but I’ll be willing to open that sitte and check it out myself.
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I give away a free book of economics notes, entitled “An Introduction to Economics”, on my website. There are also various articles, mainly but not entirely about economics, such as “Improve your Marks in Exams: the Meaning of Commonly Used Words”, and “Trying to Make Sense of Economic Policy, Part 1: What do Governments Try to Do.”
The URL is: http://www.kevinbucknall.com
Other than a book I wrote (Going to University: the Secrets of Success) everything on this site is free.
There is also a link to another site of mine with other material, including an article “How to Increase Your Motivation and Tackle Procrastination: A Practical Guide for Students”
Perhaps I should add that as an Englishman, I use spellings such as “labour” rather than “labor”; I imagine that this will not put people off too much and I hope that some of your readers can benefit.
Thank you.
Kevin