Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Voicethread Project 2

Using Voicethread in Education

For our group's project, we decided to focus on a freshman algebra class. We found an image of a chalkboard and set is a background for a slide. By using the doodle function on Voicethread, the students could perform their math problems in a new creative way. Most of the problems would be very basic so that the students wouldn't have any problem becoming familiar with Voicethread. I still think it would be difficult for students to use many features on computers for math class, but I do think that Voicethread has several features that would be helpful for students. We used this standard in our project: 7. Translate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text into visual form (e.g., a table or chart) and translate information expressed visually or mathematically (e.g., in an equation) into words

Tuesday, March 6, 2012