VoiceThread
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Overview
Grade levels: Primary, Intermediate, Middle, High
VoiceThread is an application which allows you to place images, videos, documents, and presentations at the center of an audio conversation. These conversations are not live; they take place whenever and wherever it's convenient for people to participate. Use VoiceThread for storytelling, as a presentation tool, to encourage discussion and collaboration.
Access:
Teachers of record wishing to use VoiceThread with their students should follow the BCPS Guide to VoiceThread Integration with Schoology to create a VoiceThread access link or assignment for students.
Student and teacher access to VoiceThread through the Microsoft My Apps Portal is available for individual projects, adult learning, and non-teachers of record but does not create or update class rosters.
Learning How
Getting Started with VoiceThread
BCPS Guide to VoiceThread Integration with Schoology
To learn more about VoiceThread features, classroom applications, and professional learning visit the VoiceThread's Support page.
You can also learn more about VoiceThread in your Schoology Courses through VoiceThread's Support Page for VoiceThread & Schoology.
Fall 2020 - Updated Assignments Interface!
Fall 2020 - BCPS Presentation VoiceThread Integration with Schoology
Empowered Learner. 1c - Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
Creative Communicator. 6a - Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
Creative Communicator. 6c - Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.
Ideas for Use
Retell and/or Summarize a Story
Personal Narrative
Commentary, Reflection on Current Events
Portfolio
Identification, Classification of Geometric Shapes
Make Connections
Interactive Activities
Student Presentations
During 2020-2021 remote learning in BCPS, selected Professional Learning Webinars have been recorded for you to view at any time. To access VoiceThread specific recordings, click on the resource below that best meets your needs:
Basics 1: Upload, Comment, and Share - Participants will learn how to upload media, comment and annotate on that media, and share it with others. This will be a slow paced, step-by-step, hands-on workshop. It is open to both VoiceThread license holders and free accounts.
Basics 2: Groups and Secure Sharing - We will begin to explore the features available to VoiceThreaders with a full license. Participants will learn how to create groups and subgroups, set sharing permissions within those groups, and privately share VoiceThreads with individuals.
Basics 3: Moderating Comments, Private and Threaded Replies, and Copying - In our third workshop in the series, participants will learn how to give private feedback, use threaded commenting, copy VoiceThreads for use with multiple groups, and use comment moderation to formatively assess student work.
Advanced Skills - In this workshop, participants will learn about more advanced VoiceThread features. We will demonstrate how to integrate Google Drive content via our Media Sources, how to change language displays, adjust playback settings and more. Portions of the workshop will be hands-on.