Voice Thread

We've been using a great tool for on-line collaboration called Voice Thread. The students in the Child Development classes researched current issues affecting children, uploaded an image to represent the topic and narrated their voice threads. Then they viewed their classmates' images and listened to the narrations. Each student was able to make a few comments on the voice threads of topics of their choice. The application was easy to learn. I'd like to use the students' pictures or first names, but they seemed to prefer to remain anonymous. Many of the students used topics that affected them directly. Many thanks to Joan for sharing this application in the Web 2.0 class this summer. I've embedded the Voice Thread in the side bar. You can hear the narrations, but it's difficult to read the text of the comments at this scale. Here is the link to the actual presentation on the Voice Thread website, Speaking Up for Children. Check out the Voice Thread and make a few comments!