Voicethread

Voicethreads are a great way of getting students to interact with multimedia and with each other. Voicethread requires students to contribute to an overall product either by voice or by text. For example, you may have an image you want students to comment on, or you may have made a video in class that you want students to give feedback on. You can upload images, videos and documents to Voicethread, and ask students to respond by answering any number of questions. Watch the examples below for a better idea of what Voicethread is and how you might use it in your Chinese language classroom:

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Now that you have watched these examples, sign up to Voicethread by clicking here: @https://voicethread.com/register/?ReturnUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvoicethread.com%2F

Now that you have signed in, add your comments to the following Voicethread - either with text or audio.

Ideas For the Chinese Language Classroom

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Once you have added your ideas to that Voicethread, it is now your turn to create your own. How will you use Voicethread in your Chinese language classroom? Here are some ideas:
 * You could have an image of something you like (sport, or a pet etc) and talk about why you like it. Ask students to make a comment about what they like.
 * Students could create their own Voicethreads -
 * they could ask for feedback from their classmates about some work they have produced
 * they could create a video of themselves speaking Chinese and then use Voicethread to ask their classmates to give them some feedback on their oral skills
 * they could show some images of their school and ask students at another school to make comments and ask questions and then make a Voicethread of pictures from their school
 * Students could give a Chinese lesson to another year level or a partner class using Voicethread - a lesson on characters with some images, or a lesson on pronunciation with a video and ask the partner class students to have a go at saying some of the words or phrases.
 * Any of the student based activities could be activities that you as a teacher create as well. Best to get the kids to do the work though, they learn more that way.