I am frequently asked by online faculty for better tools for students to do online presentations. Boring PowerPoints are being replaced with You Tube videos and mash up presentations using Jing videos hosted at screencast.com. VoiceThread is perfect for this type of presentation. Students can easily upload a wide range of materials including videos and PowerPoints and then assembly these into a presentation. Then the students can do a prerecorded presentation with audio and video annotations and can even draw on the screen if they would like to.
VoiceThread Student Presentation Mode Work Flow
Along the same lines group presentations are also enhanced by these same tools students can work as a group in VoiceThread to develop and present media rich presentations. Since VoiceThread is web-based it allows easy access to the workspace for all the group members.
VoiceThread Group Presentation Mode Work Flow
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This third work flow is pretty simple–use VoiceThread as a polling tool. Just ask students a simple question and have them give a simple response. This is much like the natural prompting you would do in a face to face class. The assignment instructions would be written to elicit a narrow response in the form of a “just the facts” comment in VoiceThread.
Polling Mode Work Flow
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The second work flow for VoiceThread is the lecture mode. To be more precise, this is the “Instructor Presentation and Collaboration Space and Lecture Mode”. VoiceThread can be used in several ways. In this mode we are using it as a presentation and collaboration tool.
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With this posting I am going to begin a series on what I think is a wonderful teaching tool VoiceThread. This is one of a new breed of communication, collaboration, and presentation tools that you need to see in action to understand what they really do.
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Many instructional designers I know do not believe or understand that we are designing for the web. I see a lot of online courses that have no logical navigation or work flow. This makes it almost impossible for the student to understand what they are being asked to do and how to do it. Read more…
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I use a lot of different software! Like most people I use Microsoft Office on both the PC and Mac and Apple iLife and iWork on the Mac. For several years now I have become a major user of Adobe software for several simple reasons: it works well and has good workflow. I am very interested in workflow and in my daily design work I am always cognisant of the workflow of my courses and how this influences the learning environment. Read more…
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