Tuesday, December 11, 2012

New Group Trial

A TEST RUN AT CREATING A GROUP FOR VOICE THREAD.

Click on this link below to be added to my Voice Thread 1st Period group.
I'm hoping this will work and allow us to have all of our projects together in one spot.

https://voicethread.com/groups/subscribe/84695/2ffcfad79/

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Creating Your Voice Thread

Good Morning!
1. Print your essay if you haven't done so already. You definitely need a hard copy of the essay for recording.
2. Log on to www.voicethread.com and click "create". This will create a new project - please give it a title.
3. You will need at least 5 pictures for this presentation, one per paragraph of your essay, but please feel free to do more. You will just record different parts over each photo.
4. You can upload your pictures in different ways:
- Copy and paste the URL of a "full sized image" from google images.
- Upload a photo from your desktop
- Upload a photo from other media sources.
5. At this point, the primary thing we need to accomplish today is to creat the slides for the presentation. When it comes time for recording, I will have separate instructions for you.

Happy Voice Threading!!!

Friday, December 7, 2012

My Voice Thread

https://voicethread.com/share/3822503/

Check this out - hope it works!
A few notes:
1. The first recording I did was with my cell phone. You have THREE MINUTES of cell time to record a message. Once you start recording you automatically lose one minute. I recorded a message of roughly 20 seconds, but it still "charged" me one minute. Use your minutes wisely!
2. During that recording I purposely on prepared about 15 seconds of material. You can DEFINITELY tell when I don't know what I'm saying.
3. During the other slides, you can hear differences in volume and clarity. Put the mic too far away and it's too quiet. Put it too close, and you can hear every breath and "P" sound you make.
4. Notice the different comments you can make - Mrs. Duell called one in, she recorded one, and she sent a text as the third.

Enjoy!

VOICE THREAD FRIDAY!!!

Morning!
Several jobs today:
1. Set up your voice thread account. Mrs. Duell will be here to help us with that.
2. Type up your outline as a google doc and share it with me.
3. Last 10 minutes of class or so, we'll be watching the voice thread I created yesterday.
4. If you finish typing your essay outline, you can start looking for photos for your voice thread.

BY MONDAY YOU MUST HAVE YOUR OUTLINE FINISHED SO WE CAN START RECORDING IF NEED BE. YOU WILL NEED A HARD COPY (PAPER) TO READ WHILE RECORDING.