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Voicethread Tutorial

This document provides an introduction and tutorial for using VoiceThread.com, which allows users to share documents like PowerPoint presentations and add audio, video, and text comments. The summary is: The tutorial explains how to register for a VoiceThread account, obtain a free educator account, upload a slideshow, and add different types of comments. It also covers sharing VoiceThreads with others and exploring export options. VoiceThread makes it easy to engage others in conversations about shared content through multimedia commenting capabilities.

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Voicethread Tutorial

This document provides an introduction and tutorial for using VoiceThread.com, which allows users to share documents like PowerPoint presentations and add audio, video, and text comments. The summary is: The tutorial explains how to register for a VoiceThread account, obtain a free educator account, upload a slideshow, and add different types of comments. It also covers sharing VoiceThreads with others and exploring export options. VoiceThread makes it easy to engage others in conversations about shared content through multimedia commenting capabilities.

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Introduction to

VoiceThread.com

Developed by
Miguel Guhlin
Email: [email protected]
Around the Corner-MGuhlin.net
http://mguhlin.net
Share More! Wiki
http://mguhlin.net/share
Created: 09/05/2008
Last Revision: 09/07/2008

Table of Contents
Introduction...................................3
How To...
Register for a VoiceThread Account.............4
Obtain the Free, PRO, Educator Account.........6
Add Your Picture to VoiceThread.com............9
Put a Slideshow Online........................10
Share Your VoiceThread with Others............16
Exploring Export Options......................18
Adding Audio/Video Comments:
Add Audio via the Phone.......................19
Exploring Phone Commenting....................20
Upload Pre-Recorded Audio.....................21
Add Video Comments............................22
Add Text Comments.............................23
Great Examples of VoiceThreads in K-12........24

Welcome to Voicethread.com! It's now easier than ever to engage


other educators and learners with your presentations and images!

What is it?

VoiceThread.com enables you to share any document you havea Powerpoint


slideshow, a Word document, a series of photos of people at your schooland then
add audio, text, video comments.

It enables you to have conversations about what you're sharing with your audience.
You can pre-record your voice, record it online, call in with your mobile phone, and the
possibilities are endless as to what you can use VoiceThread for.

About this Tutorial

This tutorial is divided up into several sections; those sections include the following:

How to Get Your VoiceThread Account


How to Get the Free Educator Account (a $50 value)
How to Put a Slideshow online
How to Enable Commenting by Others (or not)
How to Share Your VoiceThread with Others

To get started, go to http://voicethread.com

How to Register for Your VoiceThread Account


Step 1: Go to http://voicethread.com
Step 2: Click on REGISTER in the top right-hand corner, as shown in the image below:

Now that you've created your VoiceThread.com account, you are


immediately able to start creating VoiceThreads! But, before we
start having fun, let's push on and get your free EDUCATOR
account, which is a tremendous value at $59.95!

Click the GO PRO button in the top right-hand corner of the screen.

Note that K-12 educators can click here to see options just for them!

How to Add Your Picture to


VoiceThread.com
One of the annoying aspects of VoiceThread is that it will constantly
ask you to upload a picture of yourself. This picture is used to
represent you when you leave audio/text/video comments for
others.

After you have selected an image of your face (or your favorite
image), click SAVE then DONE. And, that's it!

How to Put a SlideShow Online


You can easily uploadthat is, send your Powerpointyour slide
show to VoiceThread.com. Once your Powerpoint is online, you
can add audio/video/text comments to it. This section will walk
you through that process!
To start out, click on the CREATE button on VoiceThread.com.

Note that when you click UPLOAD, the first step in the CREATE
process, you will be given the opportunity to choose your
presentation.
You can BROWSE to where your Powerpoint slide show is on
your computer's hard drive.
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The next step once you get your Powerpoint loaded is to add
COMMENTs to each slide. This is useful because you can actually
share what you wanted to say about any particular slide in the
presentation.

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As seen below, you can also click on OPTIONS to determine how


many seconds before each slide automatically moves forward (this
is also adjusted to your audio recording), as well as allowing others
to get an original copy of your presentation document. Click SAVE.

14

Once you have created your VoiceThread, or when you are viewing
ANY VoiceThread, you can quickly jump to one slide out of many by
using the slide cluster button in the bottom right hand corner.

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How To Share Your VoiceThread with


Others

When sharing my VoiceThreads with others, I usually set my


SHARING OPTIONS as Public, yes comments because I
want others to interact with what I have to say and share via my
VoiceThread presentation.
However, you may not want to allow that, and you have the
choice of making it Public, no comments or, if you really want
to restrict the audience, choose Private.
There is another important option to be aware of, especially if
you have a web page or blog. You can actually EMBED your
VoiceThread on a web page.
Let's explore how to do that.

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Here's the quickest ways to share your VoiceThread.com with


others...copy-n-paste the embed code or just copy the link and
share that with others.

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If you decided to export your VoiceThread, you'll see a window


that looks like the one below. Again, the purpose of this is to
enable you to save your VoiceThread as a movie you can store
on your computer, upload to Edublogs.tv (online video/audio
storage site for educators), YouTube, or GoogleVideo.

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Adding Comments in VoiceThread:


Using Your Phone (mobile or otherwise)

Although you will get about 3 minutes of free commenting,


you can click on the ADD button and get more time at cost.

19

When you click on the ADD button (view previous screenshot)


you will get a window that looks like this one below. I'm going to
click NOT NOW and just go with free commenting.

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Adding Comments in VoiceThread:


Upload Your Pre-Recorded Audio
I often like to record audio using an Olympus WS-110, convert it from WMA to MP3
format, and then edit it using Audacity sound editor. It gives me greater control over
the content.
This makes it easy for me to create audio with special sound effects I wouldn't
normally have access to when recording by phone or just using the record function
in VoiceThread.

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Adding Comments in VoiceThread:


Using Your Video/Web Camera

22

Adding Comments in VoiceThread:


Adding Text Comment

Text, audio and video


comments co-exist!

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Great Examples of
VoiceThread Use in
K-12 Environments

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