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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).

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

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 thoughtful and helpful Voicethread tutorial.

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.

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 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).

Digital Storytelling - how can students put together all the pieces of a digital story.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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)

This is a really exciting looking site - basically allows you to invite lots of people into an online live roundtable - great for getting together to practice, and it's recorded. The downside it is only available to user 18 years old and up, so that pretty much ills it for K-12.

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.