{"id":1455,"date":"2007-08-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=1455"},"modified":"2015-08-14T05:50:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T05:50:48","slug":"a-walk-along-the-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/a-walk-along-the-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Walk along the canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <object width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/voicethread.com\/book.swf?b=4057\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve a page with a bigger version:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnjohnston.name\/misc\/a_walk_along_the_canal.html\">A walk along the canal<\/a> and you <a href=\"http:\/\/voicethread.com\/view.php?b=4057\" title=\"VoiceThread &rsaquo; A walk along the canal by John Johnston\">can see this on voicethreads<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously I&#8217;ve been  <a href=\"http:\/\/voicethread.com\/view.php?b=4057\" title=\"VoiceThread &rsaquo; A walk along the canal by John Johnston\">trying out voicethreads<\/a> which has had a <a href=\"http:\/\/cogdogblog.com\/2007\/07\/05\/voicethreads\/\" title=\"Easy Peasy Rich Media - VoiceThreads &raquo; CogDogBlog\">fair<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downes.ca\/cgi-bin\/page.cgi?post=40773\" title=\"Easy Peasy Rich Media - VoiceThreads ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes\">amount<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=voicethreads+education+blog\" title=\"Google\">linkage<\/a> on various edublogs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only made one show but voicethreads is a very sweet application. Wesley Fryer has a nice post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedofcreativity.org\/2007\/07\/20\/voicethread-versus-bubbleshare\/\">VoiceThread versus BubbleShare<\/a> comparing this with bubbleshare, voicethreads seems to win.<br  \/>Briefly voicethreads lets you upload (or grab from flickr) photos and turns them into a pretty slideshow, you can then add audio and text comments and drawings all in your browser (flash). You can title and link your slide to external pages too.<br  \/> Next you can share your slideshow and viewers can add comments (again audio, text or drawings) the interface is extremely easy to use. Vociethreads call this <strong>Group Audio Blogging<\/strong>(GAB).<\/p>\n<p>Even better you can keep the show private and moderate or turn off comments. Even better you can add different identities to a voicethread account without new emails, so everyone in your class can work on the same show adding comments. An identity is just another name and photo\/pic (weemee anyone) associated with your account. This process is clearly laid out in the voicethread <a href=\"http:\/\/voicethread.com\/classroom.php\">Classroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All in all <a href=\"http:\/\/voicethread.com\/\" title=\"VoiceThread\">voicethread<\/a> looks like a wonderful app for classroom use, to start: whiteboard select photos, individually add audio or text comments; next: groups plan shows take photos, or draw and scan and build show. Children could tell a story,  report on a trip, provide instructions for others, explain a concept, report on an experiment etc. etc. etc&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I am looking forward to find out if the voicethreads site gets through our filters and then plan some fun in a week or two.<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to leave a comment on my voicethread, to try out the comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ttags\">technorati: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/voicethread\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">voicethread<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/slideshow\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">slideshow<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/classroom\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">classroom<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/flickr\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">flickr<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/slideshow\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">slideshow<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">blogging<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve a page with a bigger version:A walk along the canal and you can see this on voicethreads too. Obviously I&#8217;ve been trying out voicethreads which has had a fair amount of linkage on various edublogs. I&#8217;ve only made one show but voicethreads is a very sweet application. Wesley Fryer has a nice post VoiceThread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wwwd","7":"kind-","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-nt","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3120,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/3120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}