Media+Sharing

=Voice Thread= The best way to explain Voice Thread is just to show an example. The powerful part of Voice Thread is the ability to have other people comment on your presentation. This is a slide show of voicethreads used in school. If you see one you are interested in, click the link just under the image on the slide to go to that voicethread.

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See the VoiceThread Wiki for more information. 100 Ways to Use VoiceThread in Education Ning =Examples= [|VoiceThread Digital Library] includes so many lesson plans, ideas and examples. Three are listed below but look at them all! [|4th Grade English] Project lesson plan and Voice Thread. [|4th Grade Book Discussion] Actually this teacher uploaded book cover images and recorded a little blurb about each book. Students in the whole school were encouraged to leave their comments on the books they read. She also embedded this Voice Thread in her class website. [|Kindergarten Reading and Response] Project lesson plan and Voice Thread.

[|See K12 Pricing] [|Tutorials] [|VoiceThread in a Minute Tutorial]

=[|Animoto]= Upload your pictures to Animoto, choose music to go with them, click Create and they will make a music video using your pictures. You can add text and choose certain pictures to hightlight. You may join and create 30 second movies for free or you can sign up for a free education account.

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=[|SlideShare]= Slide Share is a free website where you can upload your power point presentation to share or you can link to the file or embed it in your website. You can also add an mp3 audio file to make a slidecast. You can also use it as a resource for ready-made presentations. For more information about slide share and some examples see [|this tutorial]

=[|Teacher Tube]= You probably already know about Teacher Tube but if you want to be able to find specific videos easier, use the Google Site Search option. You can find videos for teachers, by teachers, and by students on this website.

=[|School Tube]= School Tube is the place to publish your students' videos. Here is the [|link] to their special site for teachers which includes all of the how-to's and even includes lesson plans. Teachers can create their own channel for their individual classroom needs. Search Videos for a topic you teach. I just looked for Civil War and found several jh student created research project videos. I searched water cycle and found some elementary examples. Notice they use tags so you can click on a tag, like elementary, and find several examples of news broadcasts from elementary students.

=[|drop.io]= drop.io is a drop box on the web. You can drop documents, audio files, and video by uploading, emailing, faxing, typing, etc. You will have 100mb of fre space which would hold about 400 minutes of podcasts. It is the only free mobile podcasting platform. You could use your cell phone to record a podcast by calling drop.io. Then, you can set your audio recordings to be shared via RSS and iTunes. [|How to Share Photos at a Private, Secure, and Temporary Location] This blog post from Online Tech Tips explains how to use drop.io

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