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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

Description from Wiki: "Samples submitted by teachers of VoiceThread projects made by their students VoiceThreads used for professional development Resources, including other websites that contain VoiceThread examples Best Practices - tips and ideas of how to best implement VoiceThread in your curriculum Subject area ideas & examples of those ideas" We used this site to locate resources to assist teachers using VoiceThread in the classroom. Check out the ESL (English as Second Language) VoiceThreads for ideas for use in the world language setting (may need modifications).

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

This is a great example of "commenting" in action on a VoiceThread. You can see examples of the many different ways to leave a comment: audio, video, text. We use this resource as an example of "what VoiceThread can do" and our group viewed this VoiceThread to learn about the ways teachers can use VoiceThread (screencasts, screen shots, commenting, etc).

One of the best tools that I know of for use in teaching foreign language. Very flexible. Use it to teach new content, to let students practice listening and/or speaking, for student projects, to collect native speakers comments etc. Note that there are two versions: Voicethread and Ed Voicethread. Ed requires a school account, but provides an added measure of security and functionality in terms of classes (well worth it)

This is a VoiceThread about 100 ways to use VoiceThread in education. There are a lot of good ideas here from teachers who are already using VoiceThread in their classrooms. We used this resource as an "idea bank" to identify different uses of VoiceThread that we wanted to explore in our SIG.

This website gives several examples of World Language VoiceThreads. They are examples of French, Spanish and English VoiceThreads. These examples can be used as they are, modified, or enhanced based on what is desired in the classroom. The website also provides link to other resources available through the VoiceThread website.

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

This is a thoughtful and helpful Voicethread tutorial.

This is a large list of resources related to the use of VoiceThread and its pedagogical purposes. Some of the resources listed on this site we have already bookmarked, but there are many resources that we have not seen before. There are more example VoiceThreads for use in education, and also lots of teacher tips for using VoiceThread.

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 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.

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.

This is one of the most well-known authorities on learning and teaching foreign languages. Members can locate resources on foreign language teaching and learning, as well as connect with other foreign language teachers. Perhaps foreign language teachers could use the Oral Proficiency Interview rubrics to help grade speaking assessments submitted on VoiceThread? Our group plans to continue to follow this organization to look for additional resources related to VoiceThread.

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 PPT presentation that walks you through how to record with audacity. While users must download this program, using Audacity to record audio can work as an alternative to commenting directly onto a VoiceThread. Using Audacity, students can create mp3 files, save them to their computer, send the files to their teacher, or upload the file as a VoiceThread comment.

Another interesting site, this is primarily uses phone to record (I think direct online recording is better for students), which can be attached to pictures, so similar to Voicethread, the big difference being that this is one way (i.e. there is no comment back from the listener)

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.

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.

MiWLA is a professional organization for world language teachers. This site offers lots of resources for foreign language teachers in Michigan, such as information about their annual conference, publications related to best teaching practice, and ways to connect with other world language teachers in Michigan. Follow them on Twitter @miwla Our group plans to continue to follow this organization to look for additional resources related to VoiceThread.