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** THIRD PROJECT / ONE ACTIVITY USE OF VOICETHREAD IN SOCIAL STUDIES April 2010 **

** Description **

In the following presentation, you will see how VoiceThread has been used to encourage students to learn more about three American symbols: the American flag, the statue of Liberty, and the American eagle. Students learnt about these symbols during a previous lesson, and this activity serves as a reinforcement. For each picture, teacher introduces the symbol, and students take turn adding their comments through voice or text. This activity takes place over several days.

**Standards Addressed**  //Maryland Technology Literacy Standards for Students// III – Technology for Learning and Collaboration: Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration A. Learning 1. Use technology tools, including software and hardware, from a range of teacher-selected options to learn new content or reinforce skills // ​ Maryland Technology Standards for Teachers // IV – Integrating Technology into the Curriculum and Instruction: Design, implement, and assess learning experiences that incorporate use of technology in a curriculum-related instructional activity to support understanding, inquiry, problem-solving, communication and/or collaboration 5. Select and use appropriate technology to support content-specific student-learning outcomes


 * Reflection**

I found that VoiceThread is pretty challenging to use for first-graders, and time-consuming for a whole-class lesson. However, I did like the fact that everyone was able to collaborate to the same project at once.

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 * VoiceThread Presentation**