Student blogging changes the classroom environment. It gives students a voice, and can give them the opportunity to share things that are important to them in a way that's authentic to them.
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This video is an excellent tool for teachers to learn how to embed a voice thread into a google site. It is much more efficient and easier for the user if the voice thread is embedded and not as a link.
This app is an extension in Google and allows students to read aloud while being recorded. This is especially helpful with struggling readers to go back to listen to themselves read with the teacher and find where struggles lie.
Oberlin College utilizes Pinterest to tell a collective story about the school through pins. When students and alumnis share books, art, etc. they become part of a living story.
This article discusses the use of Twitter outside the classroom to keep the conversation going. I like Twitter for this use because in large classrooms, not all students are heard. Using Twitter allows the shy students to have their say without having to voice an opinion in front of many others.
This blog has an entry titled: "Building School-Based Social Networks for Inquiry, in which he discusses building a social network for students named "Youth Voices." This site is for students to write and respond to each other and teach the value of peer interaction. The process of responding to each other has motivated student begin new posts.
This online news service brings together journalism students from around the world in a collaborative effort to report on global issues. Written "for students, by students" it encourages students to share their unique regional perspectives, as in this Election 2012 Election project.
Students from around the world use Voicethread to capture their individual voices. Then, they post the Voicethread project to this wiki to broaden the audience base. Awesome elementary resource!!
Chrome OS, Chromebook and Chrome extension for screen reading for the visually impaired. Offers the ability to read from paragraph to letter. Speed and pitch changing of voice.
Although I'm usually a bit skeptical when reading anything commissioned by a for-profit publisher like Pearson, this survey reflects responses from almost 8000 higher ed faculty with some interesting results in the data. The faculty voices section at the end is always interesting and sometimes hard to read.
This is a great site for students to upload a picture of either themselves or a figure in history and record a voice over. Great for a biography or autobiography assignment.