My students created this voicethread to go along with the story "The Christmas Pony". Students can comment on each of these pages and it can be used in a self-guided reading group.
I used this video along with the Reading Group book, A Lion and a Roar (focus on main idea and detail). After reading the book, and discussing the details, the students were very interesting in seeing an actual lion dance.
This is an example of how a teacher uses VoiceThread in her reading groups to facilitate discussion regarding prediction, comprehension, etc. This is awesome - a great way to incorporate technology as a tool in your teaching
Awesome site for Blogging - things to remember when teaching students how to respond. There is even a pdf file available that the teacher has created. On this paper, students are given sample blog responses and discuss whole class whether they would approve the comment.
I wish I would have seen this post yesterday. I had to reteach blogging to our book club group. Mainly, I feel the time constraint/computer issues we had the first two weeks set us back. However, I did something similar to this actually handwriting responses on the white board. The number of posts and details within the post increased dramatically.