A Little Inspiration

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So, there are many times during this whole experience when stress seems to be mounting higher than I can climb. For all of you who may need a little encouragement from time to time, I know I need it a bit more since the beginning of this term, my team members and I have put together this small Voice Thread for a bit of inspiration. 

Group work played a key role in this particular small project. I quickly remembered how one statement can be said multiple ways in order for students to comprehend material presented.  Some of the obstacles we faced together took a lot of playing around, but in the end we were able to master the objective and in turn build on our skills. One of our obstacles was trying to embed the Voice Thread video into blogger. We noticed that although we tried to embed it through blogger an error post kept occurring. How did we get around this?

1. First we clicked "my voice"
2. then "edit" and 
3. then "embed".
4. We then copied the embedded code by selecting "copy",
5.  reopened our post and under the "HTML" tab we
6. pasted the code in the appropriate place.  

Another trick we came across was making the Voice Thread public so that you as blog readers were able to access the thread. So, how do you make the Voice Thread public and not make your readers have to create a Voice Thread account? Its as easy as 1,2,3!

1. follow steps 1 and 2 above.
2. Click publishing options and
3. chose how you want others to access your thread 

I can tell you that this whole adventure has been a bit of a roller coaster. Learning is like that though, the key is to keep on trying. The idea of the Voice Thread is to teach students that learning with technology can be an exciting experience. Children have a natural curiosity, this is why incorporating technology into the classroom works well. Children will want to click all over the screen, let them venture. Play is an important part of learning.