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VoiceThread screenshot"A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways: using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, and video (with a webcam) and share them with anyone they wish. They can even be exported to an Archival Movie for offline use on a DVD or video-enabled MP3 player. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world."

You can also add "doodles" which basically means you can use your mouse to write on the image or video while you are commenting. There is also a Ed.VoiceThread.com which is a secure area for K-12 teachers. Each VoiceThread can be shared with a specific group or the whole world. You can also collaborate with others in a specific group.

It’s a fully online program and works well on both Mac and Windows platforms.

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Check out ways to integrate Voicethread into the content you teach!

School of Education, Health, and Human Performance:

  • Documentation by students of a trip, project or event in the class using their own recorded voice
  • Class presentations
  • Communicating with parents about projects, trips, etc in the classroom via the sharing feature
  • Collaboration on a project within the school or with another school anywhere else in the world
  • Cool, online way to do a travel buddy or Flat Stanley project. Giving more immediate feedback to the class
  • Online storytelling/story creation
  • Demonstrations, such as mathcasts, using the doodle feature
  • Reflection - upload a project and have the student talk through why they made the choices they made or how they arrived at the final product
  • Easy video creation


School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs:

  • Foreign language practice: Professors can speak French, Russian, etc and instruct students to listen to it. Students can listen to it repeatedly and learn accents, pace, etc
  • Collaboration on a project within the school or with another school anywhere else in the world
  • Easy video creation
  • Upload pictures and describe about a study abroad experience
  • Oral presentations
  • Build oral proficiency - have students orally respond in a foreign language to one another
  • Composition - students can write about a story using graphics 
  • Introduce themselves in the beginning of the semester

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Streaming Video
Streaming video is a sequence of "moving images" that are sent in compressed form over the Internet and displayed by the viewer as they arrive...With streaming video or streaming media, a Web user does not have to wait to download a large file before seeing the video or hearing the sound. Instead, the media is sent in a continuous stream and is played as it arrives.

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True, YouTube uses Flash streamed video (.flv).