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Ed.voicethread Network. This is a great little video (oh wait, it's a voicethread) explaining how the educator voicethread is designed.

Great explanation of Voicethread and some very scaffolded examples of how we can use Voicethread in our classrooms. Lee does a wonderful job of developing a compelling reason for using Voicethread and how to accomplish your goals.

Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.

Easy to follow tutorial for making a voicethread.

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. Our new Media Browser allows you to search or browse these primary source materials - maps, photos, drawings, paintings, posters and more, and then import them directly into any VoiceThread. Links back to the original location of the images on the web are automatically inserted to make citing and attribution easier for you and your students.

NIce slideshare about digital storytelling and the use of voicethread to accomplish that. Slide 2 quote: "In educationeze, it's Multimodal Writing. While any use of a computer to help present a story could be called digital storytelling, it's now a term of art for a presentation with a scripted voice-over narration which is illustrated by a series of mostly still images, sometimes with brief video clips, often with a musical background added." A little not taking oneself too seriously with what I think is a good description of digital storytelling.

Voicethread of an interdicsiplinary "unit plan" teachers organized around the theme of the Underground Railroad

The Great Books Foundation is focusing on the holocaust and the Diary of Anne Frank in this piece. I believe it is an excellent example of how to inorporate technology into instruction to enhance the conversation. Note that they are utilizing Voicethread as a tool for increasing conversation about the topic.

Examples of Poem Voicethreads written by high school students from Karl Fisch, always a good source.

A project from the Flat Classroom Project. Students from around the world create Voicethreads from research about eracism.

Some simple ways of creating activities for VT.