VoiceThreads ... a very interesting education service

[Gary C Martin]

Wow, thanks for posting that link – what a lovely site. It actually  
already feels pretty close to a possible Sugar activity, and would fit  
right in with the XO's hardware features. Actually, I think Record is  
already pretty close to a whole bunch of these features** with its  
shared and annotated images/audio/movies, it could be used in a  
similar way***.

** except for the (my opinion) design flaw where you can't share  
existing recordings, only ones you record after  someone else joins a  
shared session – so no point taking a bunch of photos of things and  
then clicking share – no one sees anything. For a test, a while back,  
I set up a Record session, named it 'View out your window', took a  
couple of photos, and turned sharing on. A bunch of folks joined over  
an hour or so and left photos of their view, but they couldn't see my  
photos, and I could only see a thumbnail of their photos (gave a  
network time-out error if I tried to click a thumb). Still a  
fascinating exercise even if it didn't quite go to plan (showed the  
potential).

*** If you could resume a pre-recorded Record activity *AND* then  
share it out, it could be a good way to do photo journal type homework  
or research. Perhaps needs a better playback mode (text notes and  
images shown at once; ability to reorder the items in the bottom pane;  
ability to take a photo, then record audio associated with it).

Maybe if Journal item sharing arrives as some point, this will be a  
practical way of generating and sharing similar content.

Gary

On 16 Apr 2008, at 03:00, Carol Lerche wrote:

> http://voicethread.com/
>
> Check out the educational community...http://ed.voicethread.com/  It  
> is
> described in their blog link.  There ought to be synergy here, or at  
> least
> we could learn from what they are doing and create an open version,  
> if they
> aren't interested in collaboration.  The UI  seems to fall into the  
> request
> made for blogging software in a sideways kind of way.  Wouldn't it  
> be neat
> to collaborate either just with XOs or on the school server with a  
> function
> like this?
>
> Carol Lerche
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