Comments on: The Visual Essay

By: 2 Mile Challenge at Newly Ancient

2 Mile Challenge at Newly Ancient — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:18:32 +0000

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By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 11:10:00 +0000

Dan,

A neat, clean visually appealing clip. I like this medium as well, and if I could ever clear out some time, I need to learn some mulitmedia authoring apps to pull one of these together.

The ability to tell compelling stories, regardless of form, will always lead you to find employment.

J.D.- Voicethread is a great way to pull together a lot of disparate voices on one topic. It’s also great for putting an old family vacation photo up and letting your siblings duke it out over who started the fight that made dad pull over on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Or that’s just the way we’ve used it.

By: J.D. Williams

J.D. Williams — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:13:05 +0000

I know you have more expertise in the video editing department than most, but a neat web tool thats been hitting the edu blogs I read pretty hard recently is VoiceThread – http://www.voicethread.com/

You probably already know this, but you can upload an image than leave a voice comment on it. Other people can leave voice comments on it as well (if you set it up to allow them). Of course it’s all embeddable.

I’m using it in my class to create a science picture dictionary. It works really well for the ELL’s and seems to have some pretty good engagement with all students.
Here are ours:
http://voicethread.com/view.php?b=7699
http://voicethread.com/view.php?b=7697