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This is a voicethread tutorial using Voicethread. The slideshow goes through the steps of registering as a user and creating a voicethread using a basic free account. Voicethread is a great tool for multiple sensory learning styles as you can add images, voice and text.

"The Digital Library is a database of articles about successful VoiceThread projects. Our hope is to create a resource that offers guidance and inspiration for people undertaking new projects. Please contribute a VoiceThread to help the Digital Library grow."

Find and make copies of VoiceThreads created by the amazing staff of the New York Public Library. These Learning Modules include expert commentary explaining the background of the images and provide a starting point for further exploration and use of these source materials in the classroom.

author puts some thought into best practices that relate to teachers using voicethread for learning

100 ways to use Voicethread in Education

Welcome to our After-School VoiceThread Workshop! This wiki has been created as a repository of links and resources to guide both the workshop and your exploration afterwards.

We're very happy to announce that over 700,000 historical images from The New York Public Library's Digital Gallery are now freely and instantly available whenever you're creating a VoiceThread.

Study using voicethread for online discussion

Group conversations around images, docs, and videos. Voicethread is audiovisual tool that gives users the ability to upload images or video files and then add audio or text comments.

I want to show you how to use two of my favorite resources, Animoto and VoiceThread.

7 things you should know about voicethread

Variety of handouts on tools, such as delicious, twitter, voicethread, google maps and more.

Tips on how to use LIbrary of Congress images with VoiceThread.

Great examples of interactive VoiceThread activities created by this instructor.

"By sharing our voices, we hear each others accents, share a bit of personal information and make an emotional connection. Simply from hearing the background noises in the audio tracks and picking up on visual images in the pictures students have chosen to share, I have learned the following"

Connect - We invite you to join or log in to our social network for youth voices, where students and teachers work together (see Curriculum and Guides) to create student-to-student conversations and collaborations. We hope that you will make Youth Voices your destination for many different activities in school and out. Comment - Be heard. This is a place for you to engage in discussions. To find something that you may want to comment on: * search with keywords in the search box * choose one of the New/Current Discussions * consider the Popular Discussions, the ones with the most comments * browse by Topics * find posts by members of your school or community groups We encourage you to spend a lot of time writing thoughtful comments back and forth on other students' Discussions. Create - Be known. Show who you are through your creativity and scholarship. At Youth Voices you can post updates many times each day on the microblog, What's up? And you can use your cell phone to post audio. You can also create, revise, and polish three types of Discussions: * audio podcasts * text with embedded media * discussions that begin with videos and VoiceThreads