Voicethread and Capzles are sites that allow students and teachers to create collaborative multimedia presentations. Voicethread has a free educator account that allows you to create up to 50 presentations with your students. These presentations can include videos, images, documents, and audio elements. Students can comment on other presentations through written responses, voice recordings and/or web cam recordings. Voicethread also allows you to “draw” on the presentation to point out elements of the image or document.Learn more about voicethread:
At Voicethread Educator you can compare the different education plans available to you.
There are many tutorials to help you and your students learn how to use it.
Here is a 6th grade Middletown student's voicethread for some inspiration. (It will ask you to sign into your voicethread account to view it..hint)
You can use voicethread as an assessment tool.
You can use it for brainstorming writing ideas and peer editing.
Here are a couple of wikis of just voicethread resources.
Here are 26 interesting ways to use voicethread in the classroom.
There is an entire diigo list just for voicethread!
Of course voicethread itself offers a host of ideas for educators k-12 encompassing all content areas....
Below is a 7th grade Middletown student's voicethread for even more inspiration...
At Voicethread Educator you can compare the different education plans available to you.
There are many tutorials to help you and your students learn how to use it.
Here is a 6th grade Middletown student's voicethread for some inspiration. (It will ask you to sign into your voicethread account to view it..hint)
You can use voicethread as an assessment tool.
You can use it for brainstorming writing ideas and peer editing.
Here are a couple of wikis of just voicethread resources.
Here are 26 interesting ways to use voicethread in the classroom.
There is an entire diigo list just for voicethread!
Of course voicethread itself offers a host of ideas for educators k-12 encompassing all content areas....
Sign up for Voicethread!
Feeling inspired yet? Wait there's more, you should also try......
Capzles is a similar multimedia presentation tool that allows you or your students to create a free account. It is much newer than voicethread, and educators are beginning to harness the learning opportunities it has to offer. This site can be used to create a digital story or timeline. It allows collaboration with others while creating your capzles. They can be easily integrated into your curriculum in many different ways. You can create your own capzles for instruction or they can be a tool in a student's 21st century learning belt. Any way you incorporate them, capzles are very user-friendly and now many of our students opt to use this tool instead of traditional paper and pen!
Sign up for Capzles today, so you and your students can begin creating tomorrow!
Learn how to use capzles...
7th Grade Middletown Student Example:
Both voicethread and capzles are available in the itunes apps store and there are plans for them to be available for android devices soon. Please let us know how you could use either of these tools with your students or if you have tried them before. Have fun!
