I spent a long time on brainstorming the topic of my voicethread. I did not want to limit myself on business and economics, so I was thinking of something that is related to every one of us, and the issue of global warming came into my mind. I know people have been talking about it for a long time, but the truth is that people understand this issue, yet they might think that the others will do something about it, so it does not matter if they put their effort in making the environment better. (But they do not consider of "the others" would also think the same way as them....) This was how I came up with my topic- Save the Earth! I collected all of the pictures which I found appealing from the internet, and before uploading them to voicethread, I reorganized the picture folder to make the pictures in the order I wanted. I put a title and some comments on each slide ( I also tried to doodle on the images, but I found out my writing was terrible without using graphic tablet.)
Here is my voicethread:
Most of the comments I received were insightful, and they reflected that the viewers were being alarm about this issue. I asked a couple questions (in the title of the slides) near the end of my voicethread, but people happened to not seeing them, so I did not get what I was expecting before. On the other hand, the discussion that occurred through the comments in this voicethread generated some new thoughts which might take further considerations; thus, I learned from these comments as well.
VoiceThread is a very useful tool for exchanging information in that it provides everyone an opportunity to give his/her personal opinions. It's a great tool of communication and education. Some people might consider that because everyone can create and make comments, perhaps there are chances that wrong information would be spread out, and people who have no knowledge about the topic would just believe the wrong information. However, I think that even though someone mistakenly post wrong information, others who have some knowledge of it are likely to leave the right info. as comments to this certain voicethread. Limitations of the voicethread would be the amount of VT (voicethread) documents for an account. Thus, if teachers or educators want to have more VT documents, they have to pay for the premium account because one free account can only hold 3 VT files. (if you have 10 e-mail address, as a result you could have up to 30 VT files, but the problem is that you need to change your account info. from one to another...)
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