Got another technology convert. (well sorta). At the end of April, our Biology II class took a field trip to the State Museum and I was along as a chaperone. Before the trip, I got to thinking about a recent tech workshop on Voicethread and an example of using Voicethread to have students reflect on their field trip. I broached the idea with the teacher and she said YES! She decided to use this for her assessment portion of the field trip/assignment!

I took along my trusty digital camcorder and a couple of the students who took cameras gave me copies of their photos. I uploaded the photos to my Voicethread account and created student identities for them to submit their comments (using icons cropped from the trip photos.) I’m sure there is another way this could have been done, but I was trying for quick and easy for the students. I also collect student release forms for permission to make the thread public.

All last week the students were to come in and record at least three comments - one had to be an audio, the rest could be either audio or text. There comments are supposed to be what they learned and/or researched after the trip. (Yes, some of them actually looked up further information on what they saw - mostly so their comments on the Voicethread would be more intelligent!). Anyway, here is the result. It is not completely finalized as the teacher hasn’t added her comments yet.