4 December 2007
Field Report #11: Voice Thread (with Meg Swecker)
Posted by Tina Coffey under: Field Reports .
Tina talks with Meg Swecker, Instructional Technology Resource Teacher from Roanoke County Schools. Meg discusses her recent diving adventure in Mexico, and how she used Voice Thread and Skype to connect with both elementary and middle school students back in Virginia. Meg also describes how she extended this project into a co-taught middle school English class to help foster writing and improve English SOL skills, and she describes all the different types of technology she used in the process.
9 Comments so far...
Michael Says:
4 December 2007 at 10:05 pm.
Great Field Report, Tina… and thanks to Meg for participating! Great use of tools–Twitter, Skype, VoiceThread, and you got your SOLs in there, too I love it! This is what we’re talking about eh!
David Carpenter Says:
5 December 2007 at 12:16 am.
As I posted at your first interview with Tina, you really broaden your audience by sharing directly what is happening in our K-12 schools. I especially enjoyed Meg sharing how she designed and implemented the project to add depth of understanding for the participating students. The idea of using VoiceThread as a first step way to telecollaborate for novice technology using teachers is a terrific idea. And Tina is a natural interviewer. Super Job Tina.
Jeff Utecht and I will be starting a podcast in January that has a format very similar to the recent shows you posted. We will be interviewing educators in Asia about their innovative instructional strategies and creative ways to use technology to support student learning. You GenTech boys can cover the West and we will do the East. 
Giant Stride » A Field Report Says:
5 December 2007 at 9:03 pm.
[…] fellow ITRT and a field reporter for GenTech, interviewed me for <gasp> my very first Podcast! We discussed many aspects of the ocean unit I’ve been involved with lately. Since I can […]
Tina Says:
6 December 2007 at 10:43 am.
Thanks Michael and David! I had so much fun talking with Meg…she has such great ideas.
Mark Says:
6 December 2007 at 1:25 pm.
Fantastic field report, Tina! And thanks to you, Meg for sharing your amazing work! This is really heartening to see technology leveraged in a way that makes the possible, well, possible. Great job!
Michael Says:
7 December 2007 at 3:26 pm.
ROGER that, David. You guys cover the East, we’ll cover the West ;o)>>> And one of these days we’ll meet in the middle eh! You chat with us on our show and we’ll chat with you on yours!
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Teaching with Technology » Blog Archive » What We Learned from Virtual Scuba Diving Project Says:
17 December 2007 at 8:06 am.
[…] Meg and I also had a chance to sit down and talk about the project from our perspective as ITRT’s, and I also learned some of the other neat ways she extended this project with her students in Roanoke County . We recorded much of the conversation as a Field Report for the GenTech Podcast. If you’d like to listen, here’s the link. […]
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12 February 2008 at 12:12 am.
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