During ET630, we will be experimenting with VoiceThread, a Web 2.0 tool. Our experiment should take no more than a few minutes per week. Each week, toward the end of class or right after class, a student will create a brief summary of the class using VoiceThread. VoiceThread allows pictures, text, audio and video, and you may choose to use any of those, but most of you will use audio or video. Your audio or video should be approximately 30 seconds to 2 minutes long. You will add this as a new slide on our class VoiceThread: http://voicethread.com/share/2563961/ after I have given you permission to write to it (that should come via email).
You will sign up for one week to write to the VoiceThread. You will sign up through the wiki: http://et630.wikispaces.com/.
Follow the instructions at the wiki being sure to not add extra spaces
or lines. Just replace one of the lines with your name. Do this by the
end of the first class and (check that you got in because we will have
to see what happens if multiple people try to edit the wiki at the same
time).
You must post your podcast soon after class so your classmates can make comments. This
should not take more than 15 minutes (allowing 5 minutes to play with
the very easy tools, 5 minutes to figure out what you are going to say,
and 5 minutes to actually create the podcast). Our goal is to get some
experience with the tools and offer some insight about the evening's
class. Do not feel like you have to make overly profound statements in
the podcast or cover everything that we do in class. The expectation is
that you will throw this together quickly after class so you will not
be graded strongly on content (if it is about the content of the
evening's class, it is good enough). The critical thing is that you get
it done right after class. You only have to do it once during the
semester.
Everyone in the class is expected to
comment on the VoiceThread each week. This can take any of the forms
that VoiceThread accepts. This should be very low impact and should not
take more than 5 minutes of your time. Comments will generally be in
the range of a couple of sentences. Comments should be made by the
start of the following class.
This assignment is ungraded, but it will factor into your class participation grade. The expectation is that your podcast and comments will be on topic. You are not expected to spend large amounts of your time on this so don't feel like you have to spend hours (or even minutes) preparing the world's most insightful podcast or comments. Just do it and have fun with it.
This page was prepared by: David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.
Last updated: December 16, 2011