VoiceThread

VoiceThread

This tool can be used in a number of ways in online, f2f, and hybrid courses. First, participants can share information about images or groups of images; this might be useful in art, language, writing, and oral history. Second, participants have a choice about how to share information, which allows for multiple learning styles: voice, text, video, images, and combinations. The choices could help reduce burnout for those students who have only used discussion boards. There is always the possibility that using this new technology might add to the burnout and counterbalance the effort to reduce boredom, but this possibility might be avoided if the tool is implemented in a fun, open atmosphere and the students are given an opportunity to evaluate how well they like or dislike it.

When used in conjunction with a pdf version of the lecture material,VoiceThread can provide students with multiple avenues for acquiring the information. This will help students with varying learning styles. Plus, studies have shown we learn better and retain more when dealing with both audio and visual (text-based) material [citation needed].