VoiceThread.com

I’ve just seen this post from Laura Whitehead, (who in turn was re posting form Beth Kanter) on Voice Thread.

Laura’s blog – http://laura.popokatea.co.uk/2007/07/07/voicethread-a-great-new-tool-for-pictures-and-voices/

Beth’s blog – http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2007/07/sharing-my-lear.html

Voice Thread allows you to upload a pictures (or series of pictures) and add an audio commentary.  It also allows people to leave comments as either text or audio commentary.  With my Hub conferences in mind, there is great potential to upload the dreaded PowerPoint slides (saved as JPEGs) and ask the workshop leaders to expand on the info with audio snippets.  Having had a look at the website, it seems like quite a simple process to create and share a video thread, all you need is a microphone.  I’ve been reading a bit about screencasting, essentially the same sort of thing but with moving images and a commentary, and this looks like an easy way in.

Laura had some good ideas for ways of VCOs using Voice Thread: 

• make a tutorial for their volunteers;
• find a creative way to let others know the work of their organisation, but not wanting to keep up with the maintenance of a blog;
• provide something real and live for potential funders and supporters to show the work they do,
• and also a group of young people wanting to collate their knowledge and share a project they’ve been working on together.

On a slight tangent, I’m very much enjoying looking out of the window to the big blue sky above, hopefully it will stay there for my first proper match in the London charity netball league later this afternoon.  Fingers crossed.