Saturday, May 14, 2011
Week 2 of Digital Story Telling
I have to say that I enjoyed making my Civil Rights voice thread a lot more than I anticipated. Voice thread is really a great tool. It allows you to find pictures on the Internet, or use pictures of your own, and set your voice over each slide to tell the story of the pictures you found. Though I enjoyed doing this project, it was actually pretty hard. I spent quite a bit of time finding pictures I wanted to use and I spent even more time recording my voice to each picture slide. It took many takes on each picture to get the correct voice. So often I would mess up a word, or I just felt it didn't sounds good. After a while I got my perfect voice and it seemed to work for each slide. I only made a Voicethread with seven pictures. I can only imagine how long it would take me if I made a much bigger show. Though I enjoyed making my Voicethread about Emmett Till, I think I would have preferred to make a Voicethread based on something in my life. Either way, it was a great way to learn this new tool. I would like to try it sometime with my students. I have had students make powerpoints on presidents. I may use this instead as a way for students to present a president in a different manner.
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I too liked the voice thread project but I wondered how long it would take with my classes. I had concern with my students maybe not taking the assignment seriously or the number of “takes” it might require for them to be happy with their work. I agree it would defiantly add a different dimension to the typical Power Point presentation. Do you think you would try it with a smaller “test” class to see if it was successful? Would you give your students a topic or would you let them pick what their assignment topic?
ReplyDeleteI too really enjoyed my civil rights Voice Thread. I went to the civil rights museum last summer and this Voice Thread was a great opportunity for my to share what I saw on my trip. I found it took me a while to plan my voice and what I was going to say. I too plan to use this in my classroom either this year or next year. However, do you plan to let them use your login since it cost money typically?
ReplyDeleteI too really like voicethread. I was impressed with your presentation. I liked that you focused on one individual story. It made more personal and emotional. I agree that making one about our personal life would have been more enjoyable.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think you will have your students present about? How much training do you think it will require?