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=**Communication Tool:**= Group Members: Greg Hartman, Meghan Oglesby, Stephanie Wohrle


 * Screenshot or logo**




 * Brief introduction of the tool**

VoiceThread is a communication tool where different images and videos can be “threaded” together, and users involved in the thread can add audio, video, and text comments using different mediums. Users are also able to draw on images and zoom around as they see fit. VoiceThread allows collaborative work and editing between users, so they can present topics and ideas to eachother through their projects.


 * **//Advantages of the tool//**

Voicethread is a very easy to use tool that hits all the E’s (efficiency, effectiveness, and enhancement) without a doubt. Efficiency: For the teacher, this is a quick was for them to create a lesson that the students can look at or come back to later. It also allows students to quickly collaborate with each other on what their thoughts are about a particular topic. Effectiveness: The students will better be able to comprehend what subject matter is being discussed by being able to talk about it themselves. They will easily be able to transfer their ideas with multiple options to do so like through telephone, microphone, text, webcam, or file upload. Enhancement: Voicethread enhances a students learning because it gets through to them through multiple senses and variations of information transfer. They receive other students’ thoughts and what they teacher is trying to say through many different ways including text or voice.

It would take time to teach children how to use this tool, and the many different ways you can comment, upload voice threads and pictures.
 * **//Disadvantages (limitations) of the tool//**


 * Application of the tool in your subject area**

VoiceThread documents could be used in an elementary classroom instead of traditional powerpoint projects. Depending on the technological skill of the classroom, students could use voice thread to create image or video based presentations on a topic, and they could provide insightful comments or questions in whatever medium they prefer, on the side. This would help narrate and provide an overall purpose for the threaded images. Also, teachers could create presentations for their class with comments that ask students questions. This would be a great way to begin a topic, and could serve as a type of content exploration in the form of a tutorial. Students could then add comments and direction to the images of the original presentation to answer the questions asked by the teacher.


 * Find a tutorial video on YouTube**

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 * //List of key features showed in the YouTube video ://**

These videos show you how to sign up for an account, how to upload your account profile picture, uploading your document/picture, how to crop your picture, how to create a different name, how to comment using voice recording and typing, how to doodle on the thread, and how to delete your comment.


 * Useful Resources**

Voi cethread topic on Twitter [] Voicethread for Education Wiki http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com/ Voicethread Blog []

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