Voice Thread Project

I love this tool because it is so easy to use and so versatile! Students can use this for a variety or ages and levels. While thumbing through a few of the public projects I came across a few that were done by students. One was of course about dogs and how that student thought that they should be cared for. The teacher then left a voice comment about the project. How fun!
You could use this for a social studies project on Greece. The student could do fun facts etc. in sort of a "Pop-up Video" format like they had on MTV years ago. Or they could create their own "Pop-up Video." My brother's class once had to do a project in which they researched the lines in "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel...they could do the same project, but this time use Voice Thread! The song could play in the background and little text bubbles could pop up with explanations and facts. Students could use this for story telling, science, music, geography, the list is endless.

I feel pretty comfortable using Voice Thread. It is pretty straight forward and can be used in any area of teaching. I was having problems embedding it into my blog at first but I just closed out of it and came back to it a few days later and it worked fine. My internet connection must have been too slow. I would definitely use this in a classroom, but I would probably pay for the K12 edition so my students work would be private.