Presented at the University of Arizona in July, 2015.

1. CONVERSATIONS
IN THE CLOUD
Michelle Pacansky-Brock
@brocansky
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2. ● Site license acquired in August 2013
○ Includes LTI Integration (BB) and Single Sign On
○ Gradebook integration
○ Auto creation of instructor and student accounts
○ Auto creation of a secure VT Group for each course
● 129 total faculty users
76% active in past 10 months
● 2578 total student users
70% active in last 10 months
VoiceThread @CI
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3. What makes
VoiceThread different?
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4. CILearn: Discussion Forum Resource Site: tiny.cc/vtoverview

5. The VoiceThread Interface
central media
(image, doc, video,
pdf, audio file)
comments
(voice, video or
text)
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6. Group Interactions with Voice & Video Comments & the Doodle Tool

7. Supporting All Learners

8. Universal
Design for
Learning
(UDL)
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9. Commenting Options for Everyone Resource Site: tiny.cc/vtoverview

10. ● Cognitive domain
● Affective domain
● Psychomotor domain
Whole brain learning.

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13. Faculty Share Session
Maria Ballesteros-Sola

14. Let’s see what
online students have to say
about VoiceThread.

19. “I can say that all of my other online classes, I
remember maybe one name from the class and
that is because I knew them in real life. I feel like I
‘know’ most of my classes [in this class] because of
the activities assigned.”

20. “Listening gave me a better understanding of the
material. In the showcase assignments, you could
actually hear the passion in the speakers’ voices…”

21. “…having to say the words helped me understand
what I was talking about better than if I had just
been writing it down.”

22. “…it made me re-evaluate my answers. Mostly
because I didn't want to sound like I had no idea
what I was talking about. Plus when you write
something down there is not much emotion to it
and being able to speak out loud my ideas made
me feel like I could connect and explain the
material better.”

23. “I feel that taking this class and
having been required to push
myself to leave voice comments
has helped me learn that I am
capable of overcoming my fears
of embarrassment.”

24. Michelle Pacansky-Brock
michelle.pacansky-brock@csuci.edu
@brocansky
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