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rc09 1/22/2010 9:08:58

General Session - Conference Presentation Only (no formal paper)

//Tedd Landgraf, Punahou School, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, tlandgraf@punahou.edu// //Jose Gigante, Punahou School, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, jgigante@punahou.edu//
 * VoiceThread: Using a Collaborative Online Multimedia Service for the 21st Century Conversation**

The collaborative environment of Web 2.0 is dominated by online services and tools that mimic traditional productivity suites originally designed to take advantage of the keyboard interface of the 20th Century computer. Even picture and video sharing services such as Flickr and YouTube, despite their multimedia foundation, ironically limit interaction between users to text. The free service VoiceThread represents the missing link for online collaboration, through sharing of multimedia files and multiple modes for user comments, adding up to a more thoroughly collaborative experience. In this session, see examples of how students and teachers in K-12 use VoiceThread as a means of demonstrating the full range of its abilities and how it might be used in higher education.

All Audiences voicethread online collaboration k-12