Voicethread Digital Story

In class, we had the opportunity to explore Voicethread and create a digital story. My group did our voicethread on 80's television. I thought that I was very easy to use and a great way to organize pictures. One thing that I did not like was that there wasn't a flow. You had to make individual comments for each picture, you couldn't have the pictures just flow with the words. I also didn't like the fact that when people make comments, they automatically play after your comment. It makes it a bit confusing to follow the story. There was also no opportunity to add a music clip to the background which would have been nice in our MTV portion of the story. It hard for me to say how I would use this with my class. With third grade, we use a program called Pixie where we have made a slide show, but it is more kid-friendly. I just think that the fact we are starting to make slide shows in third grade will help them for projects in the future and eventually by fifth grade they may be able to do a voicethread. The time is such an issue with all of the curriculum that we need to get in, but it helps when it is integrated into the curriculum.