Find and make copies of VoiceThreads created by the amazing staff of the New York Public Library. These Learning Modules include expert commentary explaining the background of the images and provide a starting point for further exploration and use of these source materials in the classroom.
Connect - We invite you to join or log in to our social network for youth voices, where students and teachers work together (see Curriculum and Guides) to create student-to-student conversations and collaborations.
We hope that you will make Youth Voices your destination for many different activities in school and out.
Comment - Be heard. This is a place for you to engage in discussions. To find something that you may want to comment on:
* search with keywords in the search box
* choose one of the New/Current Discussions
* consider the Popular Discussions, the ones with the most comments
* browse by Topics
* find posts by members of your school or community groups
We encourage you to spend a lot of time writing thoughtful comments back and forth on other students' Discussions.
Create - Be known. Show who you are through your creativity and scholarship. At Youth Voices you can post updates many times each day on the microblog, What's up? And you can use your cell phone to post audio.
You can also create, revise, and polish three types of Discussions:
* audio podcasts
* text with embedded media
* discussions that begin with videos and VoiceThreads
The purpose of this wiki is to introduce a few of these tools to users---and to include practical examples of how educators can make digital dialogue a real part of their classroom instruction.