[sugar] VoiceThreads ... a very interesting education service
Gary C Martin
gary at garycmartin.com
Tue Apr 15 22:48:31 EDT 2008
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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