VoiceThread Experiment: The ABC Movie
Posted by dogtrax on April 11, 2007
I am trying out VoiceThread and created a short piece about our ABC Project.
Edublogs won’t allow me to embed the project as a slideshow directly in a post, which is too bad (I tried the route told to Bonnie from VoiceThread folks), but I know that Edublogs people are wary of opening the doors to too many sites.
You can venture off to my VoiceThread Story and view/listen to what what I created there in just a couple of minutes. Please leave a comment or a voice narrative of your own, and add to my story (such as it is).
Kevin
April 12th, 2007 at 8:28 am
Great Kevin,
I have been clicking on this site thinking about a story and then clicking off. I neeeded you to jump in. I have no problem following behind. I left a typed comment on your story and tried to record but it’s very slow. I will try again. When are you leaving for Chicago?
Bonnie
April 12th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Hi Kevin,
Yes, this definitely looks interesting, although I wonder how the nature of the voice threads both contributes to and disrupts the idea of “story.” It is hypertextual and multimodal, both of which contribute to a unique experience. That said, it seems like one of the qualities of storytelling is that the teller gets to have quite a bit of control over the way that it is presented and voice threads kind of disrupt that.
What do you think?
Troy
April 13th, 2007 at 4:55 am
I agree about the disruption of narrative, Troy. But I am not sure how I feel about that yet, which is kind of interesting to me. I like the idea of the reader/viewer being able to interact with a piece and change it somehow. I also cringe at the loss of control as the composer. Very conflicting feeling sometimes about Web 2.0 aspects when it comes to creating, sharing and re-inventing work that I have done.
Kevin