Discuss Dynamically with Voicethread

VoiceThread is a great web tool if you have never seen it.  It allows someone to create a discussion around media, whether that media be images, videos, audio, text, whatever...  So, say for instance you want your students to discuss elements of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.  You could import an image of the painting from, say, Flickr's Creative Commons into VoiceThread, start the discussion by asking questions or making comments that will lead your students' comments.

Here is an example. The discussion creator explores the crisis in Darfur through political cartoons.

Math teachers often find it difficult to incorporate the web tools explored in the Challenge.  Here is a simple idea for using Voicethread to, literally, illustrate various problem solving strategies.

So, how do you create a VoiceThread?  Here is a short tutorial on the process created by yours truly!