SU 2010-2011 Edtec4matc in Review on Animoto

Here’s a brief video summary of what we looked at in this summer’s ER&D course, Educational Technology: Exploration & Implementation. I enjoyed having class with you the last five weeks and want to thank you for sharing your thoughts and ideas with me. Have a great vacation everyone followed by a wonderful upcoming school year [...]

The 12 Days of Technology-Day 9: VoiceThread

On the ninth day of Technology, my PLN gave to me: VoiceThread. Voicethread is a collaborative web tool that facilitates conversation around uploaded documents, pictures, video, or other media.  It is a simple yet powerful application that offers a variety of options for communicating and/or collaborating, i.e., text, computer microphone, telephone, webcam, or uploaded audio [...]

Follow-Up on Monday’s Meeting of the Mind with VoiceThread

Today I used VoiceThread with my advanced ESL group. I can’t say it was an overwhelming success, but it was a start.  The first issue I had to deal with was the diversity of the class.  The students in this class were from thirteen different countries, from having perfect attendance to  missing half of their [...]

Using VoiceThread for Monday’s Meeting of the Minds

Tomorrow is the first of the Advanced Oral Communications classes’ weekly “Monday Meeting of the Minds” during which students will discuss issues and events of American families and society.  VoiceThread will be used to facilitate the discussions.  Topics will center on issues that many of us in this culture are dealing with such as health [...]