Sharing the Addiction

I have just spent most of the morning putting together a handout on the basics of how to use VoiceThread such as getting an account, uploading pictures, adding comments, creating extra identities and how to embed in a wiki or blog. This four page PDF handout is now available on my educationalsoftware wiki at http://educationalsoftware.wikispaces.com/Picture+Sharing

Here is an embedded example of a VoiceThread.

Sheryl NassbaumBeach’s commented on Twitter about the positive the impact of one 10 year old who has set up a blog called ‘25 Days to Make a Difference‘. On this blog, she outlines each day one thing she has done to make a positive difference to the world and invites readers of the blog to do the same. She is holding a competition to see who can have the biggest impact from her readership using $25 US (her monthly allowance) as they prize money. Since then, a number of people have offered to match her prize money so she has started to offer other prizes in different categories. This is a really nice idea and she has had 1000s of hits in the week since the site has been up. One of the prize categories is for the good done by a classroom so perhaps classes may want to look at it.

On this blog, I noticed that there was a link to an Odiogo version of her blog posts. This is a free tool where you can register and give your blog feed address and then Odiogo turns each post into a podcast episode. They also provide a feed for this so that people can subscribe using iTunes and then download to an MP3 player. The quality of the audio from this tool for this blog was very high. The voices sounded very natural reading the blog posts (and of course very American). You can check out the Idiogo page for this blog for yourself by clicking here.