Voice Thread Tutorial

VoiceThread Workshop What is VoiceThread? VoiceThread. com is an amazing application, that holds great promise for the classroom. 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, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world. It can be used for collaborative digital storytelling at ALL levels of the school. Signing Up for a VoiceThread Account 1. Go to http://voicethread. com 2. Click on ‘Sign in or Register’ and then click on the yellow ‘Register’ Fill in your name, email and password and you are taken to your home page. 3. Then click on ‘Go Pro’ in the top right hand corner and click on ‘K12 educators click here’ 4. Fill in all the sections (using your school email address) and click ‘Apply’ 5. Now go and check your school email address and click on the link to confirm your Pro status. Uploading Pictures to VoiceThread Click on the ‘Create’ tab and then ‘Upload’. Choose to find photos from ‘My Computer’. This will automatically open up a window into your iPhoto library (on Macs) or a file browser window (PC) Select the photos you want to upload. You can hold down ‘Shift’ key to select more than one in a row or the Ctrl (apple key on macs) key to select photos not all in a row. The photos will then upload in the window. You can click and drag photos in the window to reorder them. You can then click on ‘Comment’ to get a preview of how the VoiceThread will look. You can also add titles and descriptions to the photos as well as adding recordings or text to your slides when in the preview mode.