VoiceThread Tips for the First Day of Class
Sure, VoiceThread is great for big projects and deep learning discussions during the heart of the academic year, but it can also help with the small and simple early semester stuff. Whether you are an...
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Adding Multiple Group Admins
You can now add multiple admins to manage your VoiceThread groups! Take your groups to the next level by adding your teaching assistant, other teachers from your department, or even students as admins....
View ArticleVoiceThread: An Online Counterpart to the Traditional Design Studio
This is a guest post by design instructor and VoiceThreader, Jody Lawrence. I integrated VoiceThread into my freshman design studio to facilitate instructor and peer critiques, and to promote student...
View Article3 Ways to Turn Debates into Learning Opportunities
Political debate season is heating up. So how do educators turn the debates into learning opportunities? Here are some ideas about engaging your students with VoiceThread: Idea #1 Analyze the debates...
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New Direct, Private and Threaded Comments
We recently released 3 new commenting features for our VoiceThreaders to use! Now, instructors can reply directly to students, give private feedback or enable threaded conversations on their content....
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Cheating in Online Courses
How do you prevent students from cheating in an online course? We come across a number of posts every week discussing strategies, explaining how students can google answers to multiple choice tests,...
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Spanish Portfolios and VoiceThread Commenting
This is a guest post by Spanish educator and VoiceThreader, Laura K. Sexton, MA/NBCT. There are three people that need to see my students’ VoiceThread e-portfolios for Spanish: them, me, and everyone...
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VoiceThread Storytelling Videos and Cultural Presentations
This is a guest post by language educator and VoiceThreader Araceli Trujillo. Why VoiceThread? As an online Spanish instructor, I can say that VoiceThread has revolutionized my course design and...
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Creative Storytelling with Picture Books
Are you looking for ways to empower your students to be more creative? Picture books are a great way to bring your students’ imaginations into your curriculum. At VoiceThread, we think every student...
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Using VoiceThread to Facilitate Language in an Elementary Deaf Education...
This is a guest post by educator and VoiceThreader, Marleah Jacobson. VoiceThread meets Deaf education and magic happens. Magic in the form of a classroom erupting with language; both English and...
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World Read Aloud Day ThreadBox Guide
VoiceThread and LitWorld are teaming up to bring you a new way to participate in World Read Aloud Day! Every year, classrooms around the world celebrate literacy education and this year you can...
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The Great Kindness Challenge and VoiceThread
This is a guest post by educators and VoiceThreaders, Kelly Riley, Jeff Williams, and Stacey Zawisza. Students + VoiceThread + Kindness = one wholehearted experience. The Great Kindness Challenge (GKC)...
View ArticleBreak Down Your Classroom Walls with VoiceThread
This is a guest post by educator and VoiceThreader, Eleanna Liscombe. I am a 12 year veteran teacher of third graders as well as a Google and eMINTS Certified Educator. I earned my Master’s of...
View ArticleWhy is VoiceThread using Flash? Why not HTML5?
It’s not uncommon for us to get the question: “why haven’t you switched to HTML 5 from Flash?” The short answer is that we already are well into a transition away from Flash, and we will continue that...
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Become a VoiceThread Certified Educator
We are proud to announce a new cohort for the VoiceThread Certified Educator online course! We invite you to join the dozens of VoiceThreaders who successfully completed the course in 2015. Unlike...
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Transforming from Text to VoiceThreads and Not Looking Back
This is a guest post by educator and VoiceThreader, Curtis Izen Students taking my online Principals of Management Information Systems course participate in discussion boards, group projects and case...
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Are you an #EdTech Hoarder?
Is your EdTech toolbox getting crowded? There are literally hundreds of tools for educators to use for a wide variety of purposes ranging from class discussions to lecture capture to portfolios and a...
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The Great Kindness Challenge and VoiceThread
This is a guest post by educators and VoiceThreaders, Kelly Riley, Jeff Williams, and Stacey Zawisza. Students + VoiceThread + Kindness = one wholehearted experience. The Great Kindness Challenge (GKC)...
View ArticleBreak Down Your Classroom Walls with VoiceThread
This is a guest post by educator and VoiceThreader, Eleanna Liscombe. I am a 12 year veteran teacher of third graders as well as a Google and eMINTS Certified Educator. I earned my Master’s of...
View ArticleWhy is VoiceThread using Flash? Why not HTML5?
It’s not uncommon for us to get the question: “why haven’t you switched to HTML 5 from Flash?” The short answer is that we already are well into a transition away from Flash, and we will continue that...
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