Check it out!

In another class (I'm always talking about another class on my blog for this class) :-) someone presented a brief introduction to Voice Thread. It's on our 556 wiki but I don't think we discussed it much in this class. I think it's something that you should all check out. You can post images, video, upload documents, pretty much whatever and record either your voice or textual comments about the image on the screen. That may not seem that cool in itself but you can also draw on the image or pause a video and circle or draw arrows to make what you want people to notice obvious. That, I think, is a very cool feature. It can be a synchronous discussion where several people are signed into the same discussion and would be great for online courses. I was thinking that it could possibly be used for teacher feedback on student papers. You could upload their documents onto voice thread and give feedback verbally, make visual notations with the drawing feature, etc. Students could go online and view their paper and hear comments. It'd be like using a podcast for comments like Dr. Schmidt suggested last night but also with the visual of your paper. I have yet another class where the professor gives audio feedback on our projects. He sends it through email. The only problem is that it's really hard to hear...probably a very fixable problem. I don't think he realized that until someone said something the other night. Anyway, check out VoiceThread. There are short videos that explain how to use it on their website, too.