{"id":2361,"date":"2013-02-11T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2361"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:27:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:27:41","slug":"choosing-a-way-voicethread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/choosing-a-way-voicethread\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing A Way &#8211; VoiceThread"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As part of <a href=\"http:\/\/etmooc.org\/\" title=\"#ETMOOC | A MOOC about educational technology &amp; media &#8211; Coming January 2013\">etmooc<\/a> we are encouraged to use a variety of Storytelling tools. I&#8217;ve spent a fair bit of time over the last couple of days <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/storyboard-and-gifboard\/\" title=\"106 drop in  &raquo; Blog Archive   &raquo; Storyboard and Gifboard\">animating gifs<\/a> but though it was time to step out of my comfort zone.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to choose something from <a href=\"http:\/\/50ways.wikispaces.com\/Tools+A+to+Z\">50+Ways &#8211; Tools A to Z<\/a> @cogdogs wiki of online storytelling tools.<\/p>\n<p>My problem was twofold, I need to decide what tool to use and what story to tell. Time for avoidance tactics, a bit of light coding, to come up with a way to choose a way.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up with <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/tests\/onefrom50.html\">Which Way?<\/a> a simple page that will give you a randomised choice from the 50 Ways list. <\/p>\n<p>Still without a story I decided to use one of the tools to explain what I&#8217;ve done, a couple of click gave me VoiceThread. I am not sure if it ois the best tool for this particular job but it is quick and simple to use, a bunch of screen shots and a mic.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/voicethread.com\/book.swf?b=4116957\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of etmooc we are encouraged to use a variety of Storytelling tools. I&#8217;ve spent a fair bit of time over the last couple of days animating gifs but though it was time to step out of my comfort zone. I decided to choose something from 50+Ways &#8211; Tools A to Z @cogdogs wiki [&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":[97,6],"tags":[99,60,487,38,100],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-etmooc","7":"category-wwwd","8":"tag-50ways","9":"tag-digitalstorytelling","10":"tag-etmooc","11":"tag-javascript","12":"tag-scraperwiki","13":"kind-article","15":"h-entry","16":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-C5","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361","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=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14975,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions\/14975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}