Using Voice Thread - Read the Warnings
Creating a Voice Thread can be a fun experience. Once you have your initial idea sorted out, you need to decide on what media to use. The sequencing really does need to fit with the commenting that you want to make available. I wanted to try the video upload tool and so I went with a short video clip (Quicktime movie) followed by a photograph. The upload process went smoothly. Voice Thread seems to handle several video formats and does its own conversions. Video quality takes quite a hit when you upload it, and so I chose to include a higher quality picture as a second clip. It is possible to zoom into photos to see detail.I made the video public, tagged it and left it open to unmoderated comments. The results are below.
posted by John Lobe @ 6:07 AM
3 Comments:
What a great idea! Your voicethread is not only creative, it's also a potential life saver...and it could inspire kitchen mishap stories galore. One of my favorites from that genre would be when my friend's mom first got married and moved to the farm with her new husband. She decided to make bread one day but the result was such a disaster that she tossed the mess into the chicken coop so that the hens would destroy the evidence. Her husband came home, saw the mess, put 2 and 2 together, then walked into the house and declared, "Honey, I don't know what's up. All the chickens are dieing." I'm not sure how long it took her to figure out that he was kidding....
As always John Great Example! I love your video (which took it to the next level over pictures) Great learning tool. Did you show your class? Yes its easy to loose generations when transferring. Good point. Cheers Val
Thanks for this example of video in VoiceThread. I also appreciate the angle from which the video is taken as you can't identify who the person is, a strategy that could potentially be used with students. arlene
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