It describes Voicethread as an online tool that allows for asynchronous and synchronous communication through audio, video and text. The document provides examples of how two professors have used Voicethread projects in their language classes to provide students with authentic audiences, a sense of agency, and opportunities to develop higher-order thinking skills. It also outlines additional benefits of Voicethread projects such as helping students retain information and encouraging lifelong learning.

1. Maximizing learning dialogues
with Voicethread
Michael Stout and Jerry Talandis Jr.
Toyo Gakuen University

3. What is a learning dialogue?
Cromwell & Verity, 2009

4. What is a learning dialogue?
“All of us, whether we are teaching, studying,
writing, editing, or training, are engaged in
an active dialogue of exploration.”
Cromwell & Verity, 2009

5. What is a learning dialogue?
“Learning and teaching function together as
socially-constructed mirrors of each other, in a
dialogue that is always open to expansion
and increase.”
Cromwell & Verity, 2009

6. Blooms Taxonomy Revised

8. Online Communication
Type Mode
“Same time-
Synchronous
different place”
“Different time-
Asynchronous
different place”
Ashley, 2003

9. Online Communication
Synchronous Asynchronous
Audio conferencing Email
Video conferencing Discussion boards
Chat Blogs
Instant messaging Streaming audio & video
Application sharing Narrated slideshows
Ashley, 2003

10. What is Voicethread?

11. The Voicethread UI

12. Voicethread projects in Jerry’s classes
Toyama College of Foreign Languages
tcflvideo.edublogs.org

13. Digital storytelling...
With what?

14. cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways

15. Project focus: Japanese Culture in English

16. Voicethread projects in
Michael’s classes
•Homestay
•Travel
•Music

19. So What?

20. So What?
Voicethread projects provide learners with:

21. So What?
Voicethread projects provide learners with:
• authentic audiences for
language use

22. So What?
Voicethread projects provide learners with:
• authentic audiences for
language use
• a sense of agency

23. So What?
Voicethread projects provide learners with:
• authentic audiences for
language use
• a sense of agency
• opportunities to develop
higher order cognitive
abilities

24. So What?
Voicethread projects provide learners with:
• authentic audiences for
language use
• a sense of agency
• opportunities to develop
higher order cognitive
abilities
• opportunities for learning
outside the classroom and
after the course ends

25. Other benefits
Waxler, 2005

26. Other benefits
• Retain more information
Waxler, 2005

27. Other benefits
• Retain more information
• Perform better on
standardized tests
Waxler, 2005

28. Other benefits
• Retain more information
• Perform better on
standardized tests
• Encourages life-long
learning
Waxler, 2005

29. Other benefits
• Retain more information
• Perform better on
standardized tests
• Encourages life-long
learning
t’s fu n!
I Waxler, 2005

30. Thank you!