Voice Thread is a new social network site that I just found out this May. Unlike other networks, the user can share any information by using text, video, voice, PowerPoint, and doodling on the slides. It's a very useful site to learn new things, useful or not. User can upload files like pictures, Powerpoint, Google Documents, etc, and user can also record a camcorder and add your voice on this site. Then, everyone can make comments or discus or even ask questions on specific thing on the slides and view can also make voice comments and doodle on each slides, too.
In my Voice Thread, I discussed about the hydrogen fuel vehicles . I used my PowerPoint slides about hydrogen fuel vehicles that I made for the other class that I'm taking and made minor edits to it. Rather than "ppt" file, I needed to conver the original file into "jpeg' file so I can fit the format on Voice Thread. After I upload my file onto the site, I just gave it a title and left voice comments on slides that needed more information. Then viewer can make comments on each slide and reply back so we can have an discussion.
My comments turned into discussion that they showed their concerns about hydrogen vehicle and the environment. I am sure that my topic is complex so I think it was hard for them to comment about specific detail. That's why it was broader comments than the topic.
VoiceThread is a great tool for educational and communicative use, but I think it have a certain limitations. There are a lot of educational posts; however, there would probably will be educational posts that can be too radical for some viewers or have a wrong information, which viewers might get a wrong ideas. Fortunately, I haven't seen it yet.
My VaiceThread
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Thanks for posting your reflections on the VoiceThread project, Kaz. Would it be possible to include a link to your actual VT project? You can get the URL from the Share menu option within VoiceThread.
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