1. EDU614 Session 4
Voicethread
Podcasting, Visual Sites

2. Agenda
• Voicethread
• Podcasting
• Visual sites
• Tell a story with pictures
• Four volunteers to present next week

3. Voice Thread
• Voice Thread
• VT (voicethread) educator account
• 50 voicethreads
• Class Subscriptions
• $60 per year

4. Voice Thread
• Gordon.voicethread.com
• Register with gordon email and password
• yours to access always
• Check out some tutorials
• Make a mini voicethread
• Can upload photos from Flickr or Facebook

5. Voice Thread
continued
• What is Ed.Voicethread?
• Click through
• How to make a Voice Thread
• watch
• Browse a few
• you can search by topic

6. Tell a story with pictures
• Photopeach
• Upload pictures
• Make a slide show
• Students can upload projects
• Easy way to share work

7. Storybird
• Storybird
• Art inspired writing
• can create classes

8. Podcasting
• Legal Guide
• Podcasting Booklet
• PodOmatic
• make free podcasts
• Check out iTunes U for podcasts
• Remember that you have to find three
for use in your classroom - see session 8

9. Podcasting How To
• Podcasting 101
• What is podcasting
• How to subscribe
• Podcasting 102
• Recording your own show
• Podcasting 103
• Recording a Skype conversation

10. Pinterest
• Online visual bookmarking tool
• Bookmarks called Pins
• can add descriptions
• A Blog Post from ISTE: Pinterest for Educators
• includes description of Pinterest
• links to several educator boards
• Follow me if you would like - I’m just starting
• You have to request an invitation

11. Pinterest
• 16 ways Educators use Pinterest
• Pinterest - Teaching
• a board dedicated for teaching
• Cybraryman’s page on Pinterest

12. QR codes
• What are those squares of black & white?
• How would I use them?
• Go to this glog to learn
• Hover over text to see link
• The Periodic Table using QR codes
• A Live Binder on QR codes
• All the tabs are links
• 20 Interesting Ways to Use QR Codes to Support Learning

13. Symbaloo
• Another visual tool
• links to other sites
• Symbaloo
• a blog post: the fun continues
• An elementary math example
• Middle & High School math

14. Posterous
• A visual blog like tool
• Great for visuals or a photo blog
• Some Richard Byrne (FreeTech4Teachers) posts
• Creating an online classsroom with Posterous
• Common Core Essentials
• Curated by a colleague PARCC Educator Leader
Fellow :)

15. Dropbox
• Online storage of documents
• Access from any computer
• syncs wherever you work
• Dropbox
• if you want to sign up, let me invite you

16. Watch-Know-Learn
• Watch-Know-Learn
• Created by the co-founder of Wikipedia
• Thousands of educational videos
• Remember you need to find three videos
for use in your classroom - see session 7