Our group project VoiceThread presentation on Future Trends in Distance Education can be accessed at the following:
https://voicethread.com/share/5880114/
Our group was pretty easy to work with, except that it seemed 3 out of the 4 of us had a tough week and difficulty assembling material early in the week. John was able to locate 3 articles online that he sent to each of us, and suggested a direction for the project.
By Thursday, I had located 2 articles, and decided to contribute material on increased demand as a future trend in distance education. I culled information and found images on Google as well as the websites to create slides. I emailed them to the others, and then revised them according to feedback from the group. I also gave feedback on others' slides, and they made adjustments as well.
We met online on Friday night, using GoToMeeting.com, which I organized using my manager's account, so I didn't have to create/buy an account. We use this tool for webcam consultations in our clinic, and it's really easy to use. We discussed our progress and planned out how we would complete the project by the deadline.
By Sunday, our slides were uploaded onto VoiceThread by our group leader, Trevor. He did a great job of organizing them to flow well. We then recorded our comments. I had used VoiceThread for Modules 1 and 2, so I knew how to use it, but it's different adding to an uploaded presentation, rather than creating one from the beginning, so I recorded all of my comments on the first slide. I had to go back and record a separate comment for each slide that I contributed. I had difficulty deleting the long comment, but Trevor was able to do it and not lose the short one that I recorded.
In retrospect, we should have communicated more earlier in the week, since Sobia used the same article that I did, and if I had known that she was using it, I would have made an effort to expand and use more varied resources. However, Sunday evening is a little late to fix things, and Trevor and Sobia did make adjustments to make the presentation flow without duplications.
Currently, I don't think I would use VoiceThread in my professional life, since most of the teaching I do is one on one F2F, with students and clients. I could possibly see myself creating a VoiceThread in the future to cover material that is commonly used and repeated with many clients. They could then refer to this resource at home. I could also possibly make a VoiceThread to refer mothers to when doing telephone consultations.
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