1. Web 2.0 tools for your teaching and learning programme

2. VoiceThread Collaboration Critical thinking
Social networking and feedback
Peer evaluation
Visual story telling

3. VoiceThread
Browse and type in a category
Student Voice “the individual and collective perspective and actions of young people within the context of learning and education.” (wikipedia).
Can showcase video or still images for voice or text based comment.

4. VoiceThread
Case study: “The Hustle” a student assignment presentation received to date 1950 views, 39 voice feedback comments.
See the link I have provided to view it for yourself. This is not an example of best practice, but of successful response in student practice.

5. VoiceThread
Click on register at the top, then click on register in this box
Fill in the details (not the same as mine!), then click ‘register’

6. VoiceThread
Upload a picture of you (called an avitar) from your computer
Find a presentation, view it, click on your photo, press record and follow the instructions. You can make a text comment too. Easy as that!
If you don’t have an avitar, it will just show a silhouette.
Need a microphone for voice comments, or you can just put in a text comment.

7. VoiceThread Comments Pages http://voicethread.com/share/103847/
See this exemplar:  The format is a good general model using still images instead of movies (which do take time to load). We have provided a direct link for you at the LINKS tool bar
Pages

8. VoiceThread
Try making your own voice thread, by following their simple instructions.
Just click on CREATE.
NB: We don’t recommend using it  to invite people from your supplied addresses, as it won’t accept some school addresses (especially with non english words in them – eg: Maori). When it sends the invite, it looks so much like spam that we think it will be crunched immediately. Easier to cut and paste the url into our own .

9. VoiceThread
When you want to add your page, you have to use the edit function that looks like a metal cog on the bottom right of the picture thumbnail.
Good luck putting your page on. Not hard once you have had a go. But it needs practice. You can change the order of the slides. Also you can deactivate the comment section for just viewing the presentation (say for school projects).

10. VoiceThread Possible uses for the Arts:
Focus question for a community of practice
Critical feedback
Documentation of a performance
Researching a topic
Questionnaire or polls
Self review diary
Embed into a Wiki, Blog, or social networking site
Student voices
Peer assessment or evaluation
Recording an Arts presentation
Documenting an Arts process with self review comments
Collecting data from the Arts community

11. Web 2.0 tools for your teaching and learning programme
Next presentation will be on Social Bookmarking web 2.0 tools (delicious for example), that will show you how to store and access website material easily.