Assignment 6--VoiceThread

This was another fabulous assignment on how to do a presentation with voice overlay. Voicethread is a simple easy to use Web 2.0 storyboard/presentation tool. While it works great with PowerPoint it eliminates a lot of the application's quirks when working with multiple files. The beauty of voicethread is a user can select and upload multiple files needed for the presentation at the same time. It is much easier to incorporate audio into voicethread than PowerPoint, because with voicethread you record audio for each slide individually.

One of the neat features of voicethread is the presenter can navigate from the slide to the video, and draw/doodle on the screen to show the listener a particular point. Students can visit their peers presentation and leave comments. Feedback can be left using voice, text, an audio file, or video (using web cam).

This technology application is going to be very beneficial to me in my online computer concepts course, because it allows me to bring multiple files to one location. By incorporating multiple files into one thread, and then being able to narriate to my students, this allows them to have the same benefits as my traditional students. They also can post comments or ask questions where as I can go back to provide additional clarification.

Not only is voice thread a neat application it was so easy to use. In my opinion it was easier than Microsoft PowerPoint. While I realize they are two completely different programs PowerPoint can get a little cumbersome when trying to work with video and sound. By Voicethread allowing you to comment with audio on each slide; PowerPoint can get tedious with the timing and audio element; it also requires you record the audio narration as one continuous file throughout the presentation. This can become a rather daunting task with getting the timing and transitions perfected.

My voicethread can be viewed at http://voicethread.com/share/1242702/