Weave your voice, or your pen, around this...

clipped from voicethread.com Browse Create MyVoice

Just discovered this cool new web service that allows people to upload media that can be commented on by anyone who has a free voicethread account. A very cool idea that has many applications for the classroom.

In the past i have been excited to use Inspiration to add graphics and narrate some sort of audio that gets attached to the graphical objects - students being able to click and listen via the speaker icon. This takes that concept to a whole new collaborative level by placing it on the web and allowing both voice and text comments to be threaded together around the media.

Gotta love these new web apps. My only fear is that there'll be a Web 2.0 crash one day and they'll all disappear. I wonder what business model can be used to keep such sites in business?

Enough about doom and gloom. Time to apply this beauty while the going is good.

Clever Learning Design for Adults

I really like what this site does for adult learners. There are 23 things in a list and staff are told they have to work their way through all of them by a set date.

What's left to do is decide on the order, the magnitude, the scope and write your own material as you travel through the web 2.0 maze. Designed for library staff, this concept comes from the 43 Things website.

I like the open ended nature of such a task - surely learners would be engaged throughout and by its very nature the flexibility will allow as much or as little attention to detail as your prior knowledge would require.

Certain to try this in one of my classes, stay tuned for a follow-up story.