Speak it to me

More photos and visuals that could serve as a speaking prompt or used for vocabulary reinforcement.

A French Clip Art site.Clip Art images are given in many different areas. Useful images for the foreign language classroom (can be edited for other languages). This is a great tool for creating graphics for the classroom, using as flashcards, adding to worksheets/quizzes/tests, and incorporating as a talking point in VoiceThread.

Great visuals! Thanks for sharing.

An interesting site highlighting some of the top 100 tools for learning. It will be interesting to see how many tools we use throughout the educational technology courses. This site gives people an opportunity to see the best technology tools and give them an opportunity to follow the link to the site to experience each tool for themselves. It is also possible that some of these tools can be used with VoiceThread or as a supplement to VoiceThread.

Here is another good site with an overview of features of voicethread. This site also offers a great deal of handouts of how to guides, teacher tips, and examples etc. The table of contents for this site is as follows: Using Voicethread for Digital Conversations Unrelenting Desire to Interact What is Voicethread? Planning a Voicethread Commenting Tips for Voicethreaders Sample Strand of Comments Assessing Voicethread Participation Teaching Students to Create and Moderate Threads Sample Voicethreads Voicethread Handouts Voicethread Overview Voicethread Do's and Don'ts Tips for Teachers Copying an Existing Voicethread Previewing a Voicethread Commenting on a Voicethread Commenting Language The Cultural Photograph Welcome to Our World Powerpoint Template for Quotation Voicethread The Holocaust and Hitler's Youth Template Scoring Student Participation in an Asynchronous Conversation Sources for Images Citing Images

This website gives a wealth of information on creating lessons using voicethread, how to structure prompts to get the best comments, and the how it can be used across many curriculums, plus much more. This site also breaks down VoiceThread resources and examples at various levels of education such as K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, college, library, administration, ESL, and Special Education.

This is a more involved audio website that can be used for assessments. This is a more comprehensive site for educators as it is created specifically to make online audio assessments - you can even set time limits. This is not a casual site - you have to put a lot of work into setting it up.

A great way to combine Powerpoint and video - kind of a dual presentation. [Downside for me - doesn't handle Chinese]. Great tool for combining two already powerful presentation tools, either for teacher use or for student use.

Podcasting - both audio and video. Another site, primarily aimed at podcasting. Nice explanation and interface.

Podcasting functionality - great for students to share, but also to teach other students. Specifically for podcasting.

Digital story telling - stories are a great way to help students improve their language ability - this gives them a way to create something around that. This tool is more focused than Voicethread, and as a result less flexible, but still provides a similar experience and functionality.

This appears to be an interesting way to create a dialogue between the teacher and student (not sure it is any better than Voicethread). The teacher records spoken prompts and the students hear the prompt and record a response, which the teacher can then assess.

This is a better version of Mailvu. You can create an account, upload and download videos. It is very easy to create a video - just hit record - and then send it via email to someone. The recipient can save the video and then reuse it (as in my example uploading it to VoiceThread.) Seems to be a great tool to have students submit audio/video.

Another amazing collection of video-related online resources - too good to pass up. This is a very comprehensive list of online tools, really covering the range of functionality, including creating and editing. Excellent if this is something you want to explore in detail.

It may seem strange to bookmark a site that's full of links to other sites and tools, but this one just seems to comprehensive and far-reaching that I thought it was worthwhile to include. Video editors, teleprompters, conversion tools, screen capture - it's all here. If you want to explore video tools beyond Voicethread, or to work in conjunction with Voicethread, start here.

A wiki with a lot of Voicethread related tutorials. It's good if you like very detailed oriented tutorials (as opposed to learning it on your own).

This is a thoughtful and helpful Voicethread tutorial.

This is a lot of information and background on Voicethread. The best part is a Voicethread entitled 100 ways to use Voicethread in education.

Very specific and detailed instructions/suggestions for using Voicethread in the classroom. Has tips and even talks about assessing.

Audacity is a program used to record audio in mp3 files. Users must download the program, but then they can easily record audio. Files can be sent to teacher or can be uploaded to a VoiceThread as an alternative to leaving a comment directly on the VoiceThread. Many schools currently use Audacity as a recording tool in language labs.

Stumbled upon this today - you can subscribe to different podcasts. There seems to be many different topics that educators can search for, but this link is to a search for podcasts with "francais" tags. Link to VoiceThread: teachers could use a segment of the podcast as a prompt for discussion.