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Bill Ferriter, a 6th grade teacher in North Carolina has put together excellent voicethread resources and explanation. Click [|here]. "Beginning with email and instant messages and stretching to texting and synchronous video web conferencing, digital dialogue has gradually become a common element of everyday life for today's students—another opportunity to “gather.” The kinds of personal relationships shaped on the playground in an earlier era are now developed in MySpace and Facebook. While the format may be different, the purpose remains the same: Our students are crafting identities."

Bill is highlighted in Edutopia. [|VoiceThreads: Extending the Classroom with Interactive Multimedia Albums]

[|Where We Live] A Voicethread in early childhood.

[|Voicethread Examples] A post from Karl Fisch

[|Voicethread4Education Wiki] Some really cool examples of how VoiceThread is being used in teaching and learning.

5th Grade Voicethread:[|Federal Holidays: New Holiday Proposals]

An Email From Voicethread. 03-11-08

Hello VoiceThreaders,

VoiceThread has been named a Finalist in the 2008 "Webware 100" Awards which "recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications that are leading the next wave of innovation." Thousands of sites allow you to view and share images and videos but we're pretty sure that only VoiceThread allows people to simply and warmly talk about them, and even doodle upon them. So please help us out by heading on over to the [ http://www.webware.com/html/ww/100/2008/vote_video.html?compid=103571 ]Webware 100 site to vote for us, we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Archival VoiceThread Movies

We are very, very happy to announce the availability of Archival VoiceThreads. Downloadable as a widescreen movie, this version of a VoiceThread will play offline, stored on your computer, iPod or other portable device and can be burned onto a DVD or CD. These Archival movies are an exact replica of the content and commentary of any VoiceThread, which include the text commentary, audio commentary, webcam commentary, and also, the animated drawings we call Doodles. This has been our #1 requested feature and has taken quite a bit of work to pull off. To make one, just click the 'Export' button when creating/editing your VoiceThread.

The development of this one feature has taken many months of painstaking work because of the difficulty in faithfully re-creating the different types of commentary upon over 15 types of media. Truthfully, it is a technical tour-de-force, and I'd like to thank David Nelson and Jesse Crossen, the developers of this feature, for their strange attraction to ridiculously difficult puzzles.

During a beta test period the export function will only be available to Pro users, at no charge. After this period 10 per year will be included free with every Pro account. Individual archival exports will be $2.99 for free accounts, with bulk and educator discounts on the way.

When? Available right this moment for Pro users and coming soon for everybody else.

Does it look and feel like a VoiceThread? You bet, and portable. [ http://cdn.voicethread.com/media/misc/Archival-VoiceThreads.mov ]Click here to download an example.

Here's a [ http://voicethread.com/help/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=196&page=1 ]link to the Forum FAQ about the Archival VoiceThread feature.

Thanks very much for your support, and let us know what you think,

The VoiceThread Team

P.S. Don't forget to vote for us at http://www.webware.com/html/ww/100/2008/vote_video.html?compid=103571