VoiceThread

For today's assignment, we have to make a voice thread to go along with a lesson plan for our future classroom. Since I am going to be teaching little kids (approximately 4 to 5 year olds), I have to keep lessons very basic and fun and interactive. For this assignment, I choose to make a voice thread on my trip to Washington D.C.. Since I do will have to do a History lesson for my class, what better to do a History lesson on rather than our own capital. During my show, I will show my students:

1. Where the president lives
2. What the capital building
3. What is inside the National Museum of American History
4. Other historical monuments

I will also ask my students questions such as:

1. Why does the president live in the White House?
2. Why is the capital building important?
3. Why is the Lincoln Memorial/Washington Monument important?

This meets ISTE standards because it
1. Facilitates and Inspires student learning through an interactive and engaging way
2. Models Digital Age work and learning through a technology inspired lesson plan
3. By designing a Digital Age learning experience by once again using technology to teach my students.

I will use voicethread in my future classroom because it gives children a new way to learn. Instead of watching a boring power point, this voicethread gives teachers a whole new range for making presentations. A teacher can give a presentation without speaking a word to the class! This is a very neat and engaging way to inspire learning and I plan on using it in my future classroom.

link to voicethread