Alexander and I spent some time this morning working together to create a VoiceThread about his experiences in Washington DC this week. Full disclosure:
- Alexander is 10 and in 4th grade. He selected the images for this VoiceThread, which I had imported into iPhoto from my iPhone and exported to the desktop for him. We were going to just use five photos, but Alexander wanted to narrate 13.
- All the mousework / driving for this project was done by Alexander using VoiceThread.
- For each photo, he created a script which I transcribed for him. The narration is all in his own words, with just a few suggestions from me.
- We may add more links to more photos later. At this point Alexander just added a link to the WikiPedia page for the Library of Congress photo page.
- We used a M-Audio Producer USB microphone to create this VoiceThread on a MacBook laptop.
- Working together, it took us two hours to create this VoiceThread from scratch, using just photographs we already had, from start to finish.
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3 responses to “Washington DC Experiences”
Well done Alexander. It’s amazing what you can produce in a couple of hours using technology.
I’m finding that as a substitute teacher a class can really produce. We use photostory, just because ‘publishing to ‘tinternet’ is a real headache for Substitute teachers.
All ideas graterfully recieved.