VoiceThread

**What it is:**  [|Ed.VoiceThread] is a secure collaborative network designed specifically for the k-12 school environment. Teachers and students can collaborate around almost any type of media including voice, text, webcam, and drawing commentary in a secure environment. Access is restricted to k-12 educators, students, and administrators to ensure safe classroom collaboration. [|Ed.VoiceThread] is an accountable environment, which means that all users are responsible for their content and behavior. Some added features that you will find on [|Ed.VoiceThread] are, students have individual accounts that are easily viewable to educators, students can create, edit, and manage their own portfolio, students cannot add contacts or send invitations to any users outside of the [|Ed.Voice Thread] community, and they cannot view any content that is not created by an [|Ed.Voice Thread member.] Teachers can quickly view and access all students’ Voice Threads. Voice Threads can be made private or public depending on the assignment and requirements. [|Ed.VoiceThread] comes in two packages one free and the other, called Pro, for $60/year. Free users can only create 3 VoiceThreads, have 75 MB of storage, no uploading of MP3 comments, 30 min of webcam commenting, advertising will be present, single file size limit of 25 MB, and no downloads of the media. In the Pro version, students can create an unlimited number of Voice Threads, get 10GB of storage, can upload MP3 comments, have unlimited webcam commenting, 30 archival movie exports, no advertising, single file size limit of 100MB and allows downloads of media. **How to integrate [|Ed.VoiceThread]into the classroom:** [|Ed.VoiceThread]is the ideal place for students and teachers to collaborate and interact with digital media. The added functionality for schools with [|Ed.VoiceThread] is very useful. Students can use [|Ed.VoiceThread] to create digital stories, documentaries, practice and document language skills, explore geography and culture, solve math problems, and much more. As a teacher, I like VoiceThread as a place to teach. Because everything is web-based, you can upload a days lessons to Ed.VoiceThread for students to refer to and collaborate with while doing homework. I well remember the days when I would sit in math class learning the days equations. Everything made perfect sense to me while I was sitting in the classroom watching problems being worked. But at home, with no guide homework seemed impossible. [|Ed.VoiceThread] makes you your students personal tutor. The self paced learning is amazing! I love giving students tools that allow them to be in charge of their own learning. Is there any better lesson in life than knowing how to learn? **Tips:**  Try out the free [|Ed.VoiceThread] account and see how it could work for your classroom. If you are like me, it becomes addicting and 3 VoiceThreads won’t be enough!

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