My Thoughts on Voicethread.com

When comparing Voicethread to traditional essay writing I discovered that I didn't struggle as much as I thought I did when writing! As far as the assignment difficulty goes I think that once you have done a couple of Voicethreads you will learn how to put your material together to end up with a well produced assignment. Starting out I did struggle with how I should format a Voicethread when you use it as an assignment. Given the learning curve, I did spend more time with rough drafts than normal. Once written notes were composed the search for pictures then produced another rough draft. As I started this project I actually had no preconceived expectations as to what the outcome would be. I was just happy to come up with a presentation that somewhat made sense.


In my opinion the Voicethread program was fairly easy to use. The recording of my voice and adding the pictures went rather smoothly. It did take me a couple of tries to work out all of bugs that I created! After a couple of attempts I was able to assemble my pictures and voice into what I thought maybe resembled mini chapters. The only real problem that I encountered was the linking my Voicethread to my Blog. I couldn't figure out how to link it without someone actually signing in to Voicethread.com to view the assignment. With the assistance of a helpful classmate I was able to fix the problem. Thank you Darci!


The non-text requirements of the Voicethread project actually seemed to make me think more about the assignment. With the addition of pictures into the mix you are kind of forced into taking a fresh look at your subject. I did learn to think out side of the box with this assignment. The addition of pictures into the assignment had positive learning effect to me. With the whole class revolving around critical thinking this gave me a different prospective on my subject. I think that this is actually a very good learning tool when it comes to critical thinking and putting an assignment together using a new format that makes you think out side the traditional essay box.