Sunday, October 12, 2008

VoiceThread in 1 Minute and User Accounts

I was able to get my VoiceThread account!  So, it does work.  The process was slow and it would not accept new account right away, but when I checked back this week, it worked!  If you are affiliated with a school, you should be able to get an account as well.  

So, now on to the experimentation.  Found a tutorial about creating a VoiceThread in a minute.  The link is below.  I will do this and put one in my next post.  I am also trying to figure out the nuts and bolts of the microphone and video cam on my imac.  I just need a gift of time to play with it a little!  VoiceThread in a Minute Presentation:  http://voicethread.com/share/8381/

Meanwhile, I found some rave reviews of using this tool professionally:

I'll be back soon with more.  Thanks for checking in.

4 comments:

Ashley Poor said...

Dear Jon,
Glad to hear you could get onto your account. I recently tried using voice threads in a project. It was a PowerPoint with a slide which gave history of theorists. I added a hyperlink so that when the picture of the theorist was clicked it connected to my trial voice thread account. It showed the theorist's picture with a voice reading a short autobiography. It was very helpful!
The movie you posted is very helpful. It is a step-by-step tutorial to guide how to create a voice thread. Thank you!

Ashley

Jon Peterson said...

That's awesome. I'm glad to hear you were successful putting this into use so soon and so easily!

Yan Suo said...

Hi Jon,

I visited the website you recommended in your blog about Top 100 Tools. Besides VoideThread, I found some other tools that interest me and would be helpful for my future learning and career.For example "delicious.com",a free social bookmarking tool, with which I can Store my bookmarks online, tag them and share them with other friends. Thank you for sharing such a helpful website.

By the way, I tried to sign in VoiceTread, but I could not open its homepage. Do you know what is happening with it?

Yan Suo

Jon Peterson said...

Hi Yan,

I had the same trouble with signing in to the VoiceThread site. I didn't find a recognizable solution. It didn't work for almost 2 weeks then it let me in. Definitely a drawback to the use of the product!

Glad you found the Top 100 useful. I also surfed through some of the ideas and found some interesting new ideas.

Jon