ICT & Writing: VOICETHREAD
Voicethread is a website that allows you to comment on images, pdfs, word or excel documents and videos. You can comment through a written message, an audio recording or several other methods. Whilst you are recording you can also annotate whatever you are commenting on by drawing.
To set up Voicethread for your class, I would recommend creating a year group educational account and sharing the log in details with the children. Under settings, create an ‘identity’ for each child.
You can add multiple pages, such as in this peer review example. To play each page, click the right arrow (bottom right) and then press play (bottom middle). Alternatively, once on a page with comments, you can jump to a particular person’s comment by clicking on them.
Below is a video example of using Voicethread in the classroom to support writing:
Peer Review from Peter Richardson on Vimeo.
Please share how you have used Voicethread in the classroom to support writing. Was is motivational? Was there an impact? What worked well? Would you use it again? Would you do anything differently? What other areas could you use it? Were there any technical problems?
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Interesting ways to use Voicethread in the classroom
