Week 9: VoiceThread and Education

Before I have already discussion about voicethread. Now we will discuss the application of education voicethread. Remote education is provided through a simple add voice comments in his works, voicethread in distance learning and learners' autonomous learning, it as a kind of technology application, let me change and the interaction of the Internet. Used in remote course voicethread, you will collect all kinds of material, it can effectively arouse the enthusiasm of learners and attention. As we can known, Voicethead provides a great convenience, with the same interest learners can use voicethread work together to create learning documents relevant to the subject matter, after creating the learner can use voicethread between each other comments in the form of a variety of comments using a variety of style to promote the communication between learners.

The video is good exmaple to show they are communcation is voicethread in study.

Voicethread are very common in education. Some universities and colleges, they encourage students to apply voicethread to language learning, the design of the digital communication and teaching, practice and language skills, for example, to explore the geographic and cultural knowledge, solve mathematical problems at the same time voicethread was also in art appreciation and art history such as distance learning. Our students can feel this is a tool to help us build cooperation consciousness and enhances the teacher and the student participation in the process. Because the teacher use voicethread, simple operation and cooperative editing and comment on teaching, students completed according to the subject matter, group members can publish their views, it can listen to the views of others at the same time to complete the task in communication.

The video is voicethread use in geography.

Information technology education is to cultivate students' consciousness of information technology and information literacy. It is the emphasis on solving practical problems through cooperation, lets the student in the information acquisition, processing, management, the process of expressing and communicating, mastering information technology, information culture, increase awareness of information. At the same time let the students to develop in order to adapt to the information age have good information literacy of digital citizenship. Voicethread improve students digital literacy and enthusiasm for multimedia creation. Voicethread storytelling, video video and we can let the students tell their stories, promote their peers can communicate with each other. Studying can also be shown through the form of a story, the related similar text, images, sound, video material are arranged through the voicethread, through the addition of voice to tell their opinions and learning experience, people are interested in this topic, they can add comments and mutual learning progress, through storytelling make knowledge vivid rise.


Voicethread use that we can't increase our interest in learning, I think this is a very useful software, it can help me to study in personal learning environment.