Description from the Voicethread website:

A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.

You can share and comment on video as well as pictures and documents! What a powerful collaborative tool! Watching the samples on the website is a great way to generate ideas for using this tool. You can embed the “voice thread” on your blog or webpage (even your Blackboard course site), making any site a group collaboration site.

Thanks very much to Lucy Haagen and Donna Hall for telling me about this, and Shawn Miller for remembering what it is called! Please try it and tell me what you think.

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The New York Times has an article that looks at how Web 2.0 tools and the popularity of ratemyprofessors.com has impacted the kind of online dialogue that faculty have with students. Faculty interviewed for the piece discuss how they use tools like MySpace and Facebook to give a sense of themselves as a person to students outside of their course. The article also looks at a popular new web video series on MTVu called “Professors Strike Back” where faculty talk about their experiences with students.

article at New York Times

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