VOICETHREAD

VoiceThread is a very interesting website where you can post written, video, or audio comments to slideshows in order to share your opinion on a topic. I had never heard of VoiceThread previously, therefore this was my first time experiencing the tool. This would be a great tool to integrate into the classroom as a teacher because I could post a topic to VoiceThread and then provoke discussion amongst my students surrounding the topic. This is also a  great tool because the outreach is endless and people all over the world can state their opinion to a post on VoiceThread. Something that I found to be very interesting while watching the tutorial on VoiceThread is the discussion of how humans communicate through voice, however we mainly discuss things through text nowadays. When commenting or texting with technology many things can be lost in translation or interpreted incorrectly and I think that VoiceThread helps to prevent this from occurring.

In terms of my academic learning I found it to be beneficial because I can view other students perspectives on certain topics and broaden my knowledge. I would place this tool under the Educational part of my PLE and I would use this tool to discuss areas of interest surrounding topics discussed during lecture or as a way to communicate with other group members for an assignment. I'm not aware of how often I would utilize this tool compared to others, however I think that it would be interesting to see how fellow students react to it. Another aspect of this tool that I did enjoy, was being able to browse the VoiceThread main feed and view other people's threads that they have created as they are all very unique and promote different conversations.

I would definitely recommend that others try out this tool and I am interested to read everyone's thoughts!