Multicurricular-Integration: Slide Share/Slide Cast &Voice Thread

Slide Share/Slide Cast and Voice Thread all are wonderful tools which can be integrated into daily lessons in the classroom. These tools are interactive and they motivate your students to learn and participate. I have found all three of these tools to be especially relevant to my communication theme. Slide Share is a wonderful and easy tool to use in the classroom with your students. I would use Slide Share specifically in the classroom for my communication theme to present students with short stories which they would read and then retell with the use of the microphone. This is a wonderful way to enhance the student's ability to communicate through retelling or summarizing a spoken message. I would also integrate Social Studies into this lesson by providing a non-fiction text on Thanksgiving for the students to read and then retell with the aid of pictures. Voice Thread is another wonderful tool that is easy and accessible for teachers and students to use. I would specifically use Voice Thread in the classroom for my communication unit because it is a tool designed for having conversations around media. This would be a wonderful tool to use for my mission of promoting communication skills in young children. Another great quality of the Voice Thread tool is that it offers the ability for others to comment on the side of the Voice Thread. This gives a great opportunity for your students to receive feedback and comments from their peers and their teacher. Overall, both of these tools are wonderful way to integrate multi-curricular lessons in your classroom.

I can envision Slide Share/Slide Cast and Voice Thread also being useful tools for me to utilize in the future. These three tools can be used for much more than just my communication unit at hand. They can be implemented across all of the curricular areas. The Slide Cast Tool would be a great way to incorporate more audio, such as music or spoken words, because of its mp3 capabilities. I can envision using this tool in the future to incorporate books on tape for the students to listen to while following along with the pictures. For older students, I would also like to use Slide Cast to integrate a Science lesson over topics such as the water cycle. The students could create there own Slide Casts or Slide Shares with images of the water cycle and their voices explaining the process. Voice Thread is another wonderful tool that would be useful in the future for multicurricular-integration lessons. I can envision using Voice Threads to really get the students interacting and excited about what they are doing. Voice Thread allows the students to collaborate with one another and comment on each others work. The power of collaboration is a great learning tool to introduce to your students as early as possible. It is important for your students to know that they can learn and benefit from one another. All of these tools are easy to sign up for, easy to use, and they greatly contribute to your students confidence and learning capabilities. With these tools, the possibilities are endless.

If you want to know more: Check out my "Slide Share Technology Integrated Plan"