Weekly Blog 9

Today’s class was dedicated entirely to working on digital story projects. Still, even though there was no lesson, I was able to learn some valuable information. For my group’s digital story, we are focusing on a program called VoiceThread. I had no prior knowledge of how to use this program, so by playing around with it in class, I was able to gain a better understanding of how to use it. Voice thread allows one to create a digital story with still images, video, and sound. What is cool about this program is that users can leave comments on videos in a variety of ways, be it through text or narration. This site has some definite classroom applications. VoiceThread could be used as an alternative way to present projects. By using this format, a teacher and other classmates could comment digitally on the video. Or a teacher could have their students watch history-related digital stories, for example, then leave comments. By doing this, students would be engaging in an online discussion of sorts. I do have questions about this program still, notably, just technical things that I find confusing. I still don’t think I realized the full potential of this program, and would like to become more familiar with all the possibilities of using this site.