My initial reaction in viewing this new website was to totally write it off. It seemed too confusing, and I wasn't having any initial ideas as to how it could enhance students' learning. However, after poking around a bit, and hearing how other educators were either using it or planning on using it lessened my initial dislike.
The area that I really seem enormous potential when using voice threads is with feedback. Just think how little verbal feedback is given to students throughout their education. That is because it would take teachers hours to get around to everyone, and we all know there is just not that kind of time in the school day. However, teachers do spend countless hours outside of school correct assignments, papers, and projects. Yet most of the feedback given to students is written. This is were I believe voice thread could give a boost to teachers and their feedback. Teachers could use voice thread from their own home to give students feedback on their graded assignments.
This could almost turn into a form of personal one on one time for each student. I can only imagine what the impact of having your teacher give you actual verbal feedback on multiple assignments, and then having access to those comments forever. Seems to be yet another form of multimedia that will only enhance our education's abilities.
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