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Well after many nights reading about Voice Thread and looking for lesson ideas, an idea finally came to me. My 7th grade class is going to look at the website 20 questions and try it out. This will be a lot of fun for the students. I feel this will be a great intro to voice thread. After we play the game, I will then have the voice thread on my wiki for them to discuss their findings. How does the computer know what you are thinking? I will have my students create their own icon using a draw… Continue

So I am looking for great tools to use with my 7th grade tech class. I have been thinking about project ideas for voice thread. I was wondering if there is anyone who is already using this and what type of success you are having?

Working on my Wiki for my middle school students has really inspired me to keep going with all the web 2.0 tools. Once I saw how engaged my students were not only in my class but outside I knew I found a great new way to teach. I started to introduce the Wiki last school year as a "test" to see how it would go. Now, I am working on Podcasts as well as the Wiki! Continue