Thing 19 - VoiceThread

One of the reasons I was excited about the opportunity to take the 23things staff development class was because I knew it would force me to take the time to explore a large number of Web 2.0 tools. It seems odd to me that I had glanced at VoiceThread two or three times before but really wasn't getting it until I gave myself the time to explore. So many possibilities - so little time.

My mom is in her mid 80's and still sharp as a tack. I've sat many times and looked through photos of our family and listened as she tells rich stories of childhood and growing up in West Virginia. Being able to capture some of these stories along side photos would be a treasure for my five siblings and our families. This is an incredible tool for recording history. Then the notion of me and my siblings being able to add our own two cents to each photo would make it that much more special. I'm planning a project.

My background in education is in Technology Education and Technology Education is all about project based learning. How I wish I had had access to this tool while a teacher. It would be awesome to record and illustrate tough concepts that my kids could refer to and cool for them to have been able to add comments along side these concepts. As significant this would have been a tremendous tool for the kids to use as a way of documenting their project based learning.

Wheels are turning.