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

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.

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 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).

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.

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 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.

While this resource does not have to do with VoiceThread directly, I think we need to be aware of this problem and of resources which raise awareness to combat this issue. Cyberbullying is unfortunately becoming more and more popular with the increased use of social media, and teachers always need to be on the lookout for it in the technologies we use for our classes. This is an animated little video discussing the wide range of what is classified as cyberbullying along with the possible repercussions of cyberbullying. Geared towards younger students.

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.

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.

Probably similar to Digitales, students create a slideshow and can add text. No voice recording possible, but something to explore all the same.

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.

MSU's Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR) has created this free resource. I haven't used it as a teacher yet, but one of my French classes used this for speaking presentations. If I remember correctly, students entered in a classroom ID and then made recordings.