Thing #19

I enjoyed exploring voicethread. This site seems to be a great classroom tool that could have many great aspects to incorporate into education. I chose a clip of 2nd and 3rd grade students who were practicing reading. I liked the way the teacher recorded their readings so they could go back and hear themselves. I think this is a great activity to work on not only reading, but fluency, expression accuracy and confidence. Our district has a hard time with fluency so doing an activity like this several times a year could be very helpful for students in the younger grades. Even though these students were reading familiar text, they were still struggling with words. This type of tool could also be used to create rewrites of stories. Students could write, illustrate and read their new stories on voicethread to embed on the classroom blog. Presentations could be viewed by anyone and everyone who looks at our blog.