Continuing the Conversation: Using VoiceThread to Simulate the Oral Tradition

The eighth grade at Lakeside used VoiceThread to simulate oral tradition.  It's free and Internet-based, and it's even available as an app for Apple products.

VoiceThread splash page

 Our Technology Facilitator helped our students by VoiceThread and showing them how to sign up for accounts and experiment with the technology.  Afterwards, students worked in their groups to create their VoiceThreads where one story led to another.  Every student also commented on each group's VoiceThread.

Red Riding Hood VoiceThread by our 8th graders

To the left is an example of one of the finished products.

Upcoming:  Find out how we used VoiceThread again in a pre-reading activity that resulted in high-interest reading and deeper thinking into the next novel we read!