Okay, I'm having a terrible time using an UN-user friendly thing called Voice Thread. The last straw for me on this thing was trying to embed the short project I had produced. How is it, that for Blogger, instead of wanting the usual information (e.g. account name, password, name of site) they ask for something called the "blogger's user name"? What IS that? I have no user name. I have an email address, a password, and the name of my site, none of which work with this thing. This is one of the reasons I'm taking my time finishing the 11 Tools thing. As much as I enjoy it, the frustration robs this course of some of its joy. Now, I'm writing in what I BELIEVE to be a LINK to what I made today. Let's see what happens: http://voicethread.com/share/2115731/.

HOW I WOULD USE THE SITE: I believe one good use for this site, once I get used to it and work through my annoyance, would be as a means of coordinating what my classes are doing in art with what they're doing in technology and, let's say, science. For example, if second grade were studying insects, and we did a crayon-resist painting project on bugs, an assignment in the technology lab for students could be to go a Voice Thread site created from photos of our work, and make comments on the pictures displayed based on what they learned in science, e.g. "We had to remember that, if we did an insect, we had to give it six legs, while those who worked on spiders had to remember that arachnids had eight. Oops! My spider only had six legs. Guess I need to remember that difference between arachnids and insects." And so forth.

Twitter was easier to start using. I see this tool as a way of reminding students of concepts and assignments due, etc. I could see sending out annoying twittrances about remembering the difference between atmospheric and linear perspective for the upcoming test, etc.