Multimedia+Authors

=**Voicethread,** Glogster, **Podcasts**=

great storytelling and reflection tool; provides authentic audience and multiple collaboration opportunities.
 * Voicethread**

about VoiceThread for educators Teaching the iGeneration, a Voicethread conversation/presentation on " **5 Easy Ways to Introduce Essential Skills With Web 2.0 Tools** " led by authors BIll Ferriter and Adam Garry.

"With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds [|images, documents, and videos] and allows people to navigate slides and leave [|comments in 5 ways] - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). [|Share] a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too. Users can [|doodle] while commenting, use multiple [|identities], and pick which comments are shown through [|moderation]. VoiceThreads can even be [|embedded] to show and receive comments on other websites and [|exported] to MP3 players or DVDs to play as archival movies."


 * VoiceThread: a collaborative classroom tool (excellent overview, with links to examples and how-tos)
 * Voicethread for Online Teaching and Learning
 * Digital Writing Workshop
 * Kindergarten storybook, K-12 Voicethread ideas


 * Glogster **

With [|Glogster Edu], students create interactive, multimedia 'posters' individually or in collaboration; they can include text, images, animation, audio, and video.
 * Glogs can be embedded into Wikis
 * Students can record "oral reports" and add audio and video to glogs
 * Often used as a final presentation tool: "In my experience, if you don’t have students complete their writing done before the computers get powered up, most will focus entirely on the technology, and not the writing." Kevin Hodgson
 * Great article, "Digital Posters: Composing with an Online Canvas"

Glog Examples:
 * Sean Griswold's Head
 * The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.
 * 8th Grade Superzero

audio or video on the web that can be catalogued & up/downloaded; an audio resource for teachers and students  needs editing software (free options like Garageband, Audacity), Internet connection for "publishing"
 * Podcasts **
 * Create multi-faceted programming (feature stories, interviews, etc.)
 * Planning and producing for public consumption
 * Individual Author Interviews
 * Programs about a book, genre study
 * Book review podcasts

Teaching Tech to 2nd Graders Podcasting Tips for Teachers

Podcasting tips from Tony VIncent/Learning in Hand, including downloadable guide -- excellent resource! also includes project ideas for iPods, iTouch, and lots of things I don't have. OUR CITY podcasts from elementary and middle school students across the globe
 * LISTEN**: (HERE _- via ITUNES)