Four Good Ways to Use Media In Your Classroom Blog

Watching videos and commenting on them or looking at a picture and commenting on it are the most common ways that teachers have students use...

VoiceThread - One of My All-Time Favorite Tools

This afternoon after my Best of the Web presentation at the Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference I had a nice conversation with a a teac...

The Collaborative Lecture: A Hybrid Approach to Learning

As educators, we have often been led to believe that lecturing is “bad”, and it’s easy to see why. Just ask your students. They often comp...

A Nice Model for Using VoiceThread With Young Readers

Update: The VoiceThread that I originally linked to in this post isn't publicly available now. Instead, I recommend visiting VoiceThrea...

Dozens of Examples of VoiceThread in Education

Earlier today, in a post about the California Gold Rush , I mentioned using VoiceThread in a lesson. In writing that post I neglected to me...

Building a Gold Mine

Last week I shared a list of lesson plans for teaching about historical gold rushes in North America. Yesterday, the National Archives'...

VoiceThread Mobile for iOS

A few weeks ago I ran a workshop in which participants explored some tools for digital storytelling. One of those tools was VoiceThread . I...

VoiceThread Mobile App Coming Soon

As I Tweeted this morning, the popular multimedia conversation tool VoiceThread has announced plans to launch a mobile app for iOS devices...

HOTTS (Higher Order Thinking/Technology Skills) - Guest Post

We all probably remember studying Bloom’s Taxonomy in college and how it can be incorporated into our lesson plans. Benjamin Bloom created h...

VoiceThread Universal Increases VoiceThread Accessibility

The very popular digital media discussion service VoiceThread has just launched a new accessibility option called VoiceThread Universal . ...

Using VoiceThread in Moodle - Documentation

For users of Moodle, VoiceThread recently announced some useful new information. VoiceThread has  published documentation for integrating...

100 Ways to Use VoiceThread in Education

100 Ways to Use VoiceThread in EDU is the title of a collaborative effort to gather educators' ideas for using VoiceThread in the clas...

Photo Essay - Earliest Gunpowder Weapons in History

As anyone that has taught a history class knows, one of the questions that a lot students (mostly male) ask is "when are we going to ta...

A Great Wiki - How to Make a VoiceThread

Over the weekend I stumbled across a great wiki dedicated to the use of VoiceThread in education. The wiki is appropriately titled, How to ...

The How-to Series

Back in August I ran a series of five how-to posts. Those posts gave directions on how to use six Web 2.0 tools that can be used in any clas...

The New Glogster Edu Is Live

Glogster , a great multimedia collage building platform that I've written about in the past , has officially launched the live version o...