LEARNING TECHNOLOGY

Using VoiceThread

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What is Voicethread?

VoiceThread is an interactive collaboration and sharing tool that enables students to build online presentations by adding images, documents, and videos, and other media to which other users can add comments for discussion. Essential resources:

Features

How to – VT Training

Your USQ VT site – use SSO to login

Voicethread provides for …….. Typical uses include:

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Getting started

How to add Voicethread to StudyDesk

Using Voicethread (created for students by Dr Lisa Jacka)

Ideas for use with your course

Examples of use in Higher Ed

Why use Voicethread?

Voicethread is a great tool to use for fostering student engagement. It works well for…

Behavioural engagement – The different templates provide a variety of options for sharing and responses
Social engagement – Participants can share via text, audio, video and hyperlinks. They can also ‘like’ or rate a post or comment emulating a social media environment
Collaborative engagement – The digital environment supports peer to peer interaction, learning with peers and teachers, and co-creation of knowledge

Typical uses of Voicethread for engaged learning include:

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Updates to Voicethread

Explore updates and new features to Voicethread as they become available.

Using Closed Captioning

audio and video comments have been moved from the commenting window to the bottom of the slide. The speaker’s name will appear before the caption text to help keep the context obvious.

Preventing a Doodle from Fading

If you’d prefer for your annotation to remain on screen for the duration of your comment, you can opt to turn fading off

FAQs