WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.540 --> 00:00:06.190 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): Good morning or Good afternoon. 2 00:00:06.350 --> 00:00:19.029 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): Welcome to our voicethread workshop. I'm Celine Green, with the Bloomberg Schools Center for teaching and learning, and I'm joined today by my co-host, George Haynes, and he is a voicethread representative. 3 00:00:19.190 --> 00:00:25.579 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): So he is the Guru of all things voicethread. And if you saw our invitation today 4 00:00:25.700 --> 00:00:30.799 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): you saw that this is geared toward teaching and learning at the Bloomberg school. However. 5 00:00:30.830 --> 00:00:42.100 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): this has been opened up university-wide to Johns Hopkins, so there may be questions and answers that are addressed by George and other participants to this workshop 6 00:00:42.510 --> 00:00:47.840 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): that might go toward canvas integration which voicethread does do. 7 00:00:47.850 --> 00:01:00.830 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): unfortunately or fortunately, depends upon how you look at it. We're working at Bloomberg school within the constraints, of course, plus great learning management system. But unfortunately, it doesn't integrate with voicethread. 8 00:01:01.130 --> 00:01:17.309 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): So again, we will actually gear it toward the Bloomberg school, teaching and learning integration with our courses. But we do welcome questions. If you are from other schools across the universities. We welcome your questions as well. 9 00:01:17.820 --> 00:01:24.460 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): And with that let me go ahead and kick it off to George. George. Would you like to say Hello, and go ahead and start. 10 00:01:24.660 --> 00:01:35.719 George Haines: Hey, everybody. So I'm George. I'm the education director here at voicethread. I'm I'm a i'm backlit where I'm where I am right now. So that's why my cameras off. But I hope you can all see my screen. That's the important thing. 11 00:01:36.711 --> 00:01:47.610 George Haines: The plan for today is to go over all of the voicethread basics. I'm gonna show you how to create voice threads, how to comment, how to navigate through the interface. 12 00:01:47.969 --> 00:01:55.309 George Haines: Talk about some of the changes for those of you that may have used the older version. That was around before June. 13 00:01:55.590 --> 00:02:11.289 George Haines: I'm going to show you a variety of different examples from actual courses, and you can feel free to ask questions throughout the session today. There is a chat area in zoom, and I do keep my eye on that. So I always feel like it's best to ask questions in context. 14 00:02:11.290 --> 00:02:27.510 George Haines: So if I'm showing you something and you're saying, wait a minute. That's not how I understand it, or I thought that was something different, or I'm not explaining it in a way that makes sense to you. Just let me know or you have any other questions about the topic, and we'll also be able to answer questions at the end if you want to save them for the end. 15 00:02:27.590 --> 00:02:47.960 George Haines: but feel free to ask whenever you want. I'm also going to talk about groups and how to set them up, and the adding members, and all of that good stuff, and how to copy voice threads for use in semester to semester, or, if you teach the same course, but multiple sections in the same semester. So I'll talk about all of that stuff. 16 00:02:48.804 --> 00:02:53.970 George Haines: But 1st let's start kind of a square one and talk about what voicethread is. 17 00:02:54.040 --> 00:03:03.109 George Haines: So I'm just gonna leaf through these examples. And we're gonna spend more time on these in just a little bit. But I just want you to see what voicethread looks like 18 00:03:03.160 --> 00:03:15.080 George Haines: for those of you that have never used it before. This is one example, and I'm going to go through a few of these. But what I want you to focus on is the fact that they all have the same structure. 19 00:03:15.180 --> 00:03:34.659 George Haines: no matter how you use voicethread, whether you want to use it as a discussion platform, as a lecture capture platform, as a student, presentation platform, as an assessment platform or all of those or other use cases. They all have the same basic structure. There's some type of slide content. 20 00:03:34.920 --> 00:03:46.980 George Haines: And then there's a place for comments on the left hand side. So each one of these examples, you'll see, has those 2 elements. Now, sometimes the slide content is a document. 21 00:03:47.040 --> 00:04:08.409 George Haines: sometimes it's a picture, sometimes it's a Powerpoint presentation, sometimes it's a video file. Sometimes it's multiple video files across multiple slides. And the comments can be a variety of types as well. They can be audio comments. They can be webcam comments. They can be text comments alright. But all of these examples 22 00:04:09.070 --> 00:04:24.340 George Haines: show you the same basic structure. Alright. So I just leave through 4 of the examples we'll talk about today, and they're all very different use cases. But they all look kind of the same right? They all have some type of slide and a place for comments. 23 00:04:24.410 --> 00:04:27.420 George Haines: So to give you a definition for voicethread 24 00:04:27.580 --> 00:04:32.740 George Haines: from a technical perspective, a voice thread is an asynchronous 25 00:04:32.880 --> 00:04:35.080 George Haines: multimedia slideshow 26 00:04:35.500 --> 00:04:42.069 George Haines: that allows you to interact and discuss things with your students throughout the slideshow, wherever you like. 27 00:04:42.520 --> 00:04:57.700 George Haines: From a more conceptual standpoint, I always describe voicethread as a virtual classroom, and if you remember nothing else from today's session, that's the big takeaway that I want you to believe here with is thinking of voicethread as a virtual classroom. 28 00:04:57.960 --> 00:05:02.959 George Haines: meaning whatever you do in a face to face setting you can do on voicethread. 29 00:05:03.440 --> 00:05:13.450 George Haines: Alright. Now I'm going to show you how to create them using that basic structure. But I just wanted you to get us a general sense of what we're talking about before we get in there. 30 00:05:13.740 --> 00:05:42.959 George Haines: Alright. So I'm gonna go back to my homepage, and I'm going to show you the steps to create in just a minute. But before I do that, let me just give you a quick tour of what you're looking at here. So these are all thumbnails of voice threads that I have access to, whether I created them or someone else created them and shared them with me. This is like the equivalent of an email inbox. Right? So when you open up Gmail, you can see all of the emails that you have. All the conversations you have going on, and that's what you see here. 31 00:05:43.040 --> 00:06:06.380 George Haines: Alright! Now, on the left hand side. You can see the groups and courses panel. So these courses are the ones that are automatically created. If you are someone who uses voicethread in the canvas integration. Otherwise the groups are the manually created ways to share voice threads with your whole class. And we're gonna talk about those groups. And I'm gonna show you how to create them in just a minute. 32 00:06:07.582 --> 00:06:13.509 George Haines: Over here in the upper right? There's a question. Mark icon. This is like your best friend and your security blanket. 33 00:06:13.520 --> 00:06:30.970 George Haines: This is where you can find all of the written instructions. So for those of you who may have used voicethread in the past. You may remember a blue help tab down here in the bottom, right? This is the same thing. It just moved, and it's a different color. Alright. But it's the same information just updated with the new interface. 34 00:06:30.970 --> 00:06:49.089 George Haines: So if I click on that, I can get to our frequently asked questions, you know the real basic stuff. But let's say I have a question, you know. Maybe I want to see something about threaded comment. Maybe I'm creating a voice thread, and I'm going through the playback settings, and I see a setting for threaded comments, and I don't know what that is. 35 00:06:49.230 --> 00:06:55.559 George Haines: I can go in here and search. So let's type in the word threaded and see what comes up 36 00:06:55.870 --> 00:07:20.659 George Haines: alright. So I see my help documentation, and I can see. Oh, if I click on the arrow in someone's comment. Bubble, I can reply to them, that's all that is. It's just a way to reply to people who have already commented on your voice thread. So if you share a voice thread with your class and your students comment on it. Maybe they're answering a question that you asked. Or maybe they're asking you a question. You can just click on the arrow and reply directly to them. 37 00:07:20.790 --> 00:07:23.849 George Haines: alright, and you can find anything you want through there. 38 00:07:24.900 --> 00:07:28.089 George Haines: Alright. So that's all. Through that question. Mark icon 39 00:07:28.410 --> 00:07:54.089 George Haines: on the upper right. Now, we also have this graduation cap. Icon, and there's a menu here where you can check out the case. Studies on voicethread the research that's been conducted using voicethread. You can visit our blog which has guest posts from educators around the world who share their use cases and their stories. If you ever, by the way, want to submit a blog post, we always love to have contributions 40 00:07:54.090 --> 00:08:15.049 George Haines: you can reach out and let us know you can just write to support@voicethread.com or info@voicethread.com any any email address that you have for voicethread will work. We'd love to post your stuff there. There's also the basic tutorials available. So I always recommend directing your students to go to their voicethread homepage and check out those tutorials. 41 00:08:15.250 --> 00:08:23.310 George Haines: You can check out the workshops. We do have hands on workshops throughout the year. You can join us for any of those that you like. 42 00:08:23.350 --> 00:08:40.300 George Haines: You can learn about the voicethread certified educator course which I facilitate. It's a 2 week course. We just wrapped up a cohort 80, and you're welcome to join us. We're going to send the email notification out either later this week or early next week for the next cohorts. So if you're interested, we'd love to work with you there. 43 00:08:41.090 --> 00:08:46.569 George Haines: Alright. And that's the basic idea of the homepage right now. The other big element. 44 00:08:46.988 --> 00:08:52.399 George Haines: That I want to show you is how to create a voice threat. But I do see do we have a question, Selena? Do you. 45 00:08:52.400 --> 00:09:17.659 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): It's actually it's actually for me. I wanted to make a comment. Quick comment. So far, when we the university transition to the new voice thread last May or June end of May, beginning of June. I just want to say that the collapse full menu on the side is actually the thing that I found the most help requests coming in for the where do I get to my groups? People just aren't clicking, expand, and collapse that side menu. 46 00:09:17.700 --> 00:09:43.479 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): Additionally, the fact that we can filter just like you were showing us filter the voice threads a little bit easier to find what we were looking for before, especially important for faculty, who are going into the environment after not having been there since the old voicethread. That is such a simple but important thing to find your way navigating the new voice thread. Thanks, George. 47 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:51.729 George Haines: Awesome. Yeah. So I didn't actually show you the the filter part. But that's a good idea. So let me just show you that before I get to create. So 48 00:09:51.770 --> 00:10:00.639 George Haines: th, these are all of the voice threads I have access to. Now you can filter your homepage a number of ways. There's a little dropdown next to the word voicethreads. 49 00:10:00.770 --> 00:10:07.580 George Haines: and you can filter to see the voice threads that are owned by you. The voice threads that are shared with you. 50 00:10:07.820 --> 00:10:17.610 George Haines: the ones you've subscribed to. You can see the newest, first, st the oldest first, st and there's some other options there. Alright! So those those are the ways that you can do. 51 00:10:18.137 --> 00:10:30.510 George Haines: The you know the filtering. So let's say, I just want to see the voice threads that have been shared with me. This will filter out all of the voice threads I've created, and I'll just see voice threads from participants in my course, or colleagues, or what have you 52 00:10:30.700 --> 00:10:33.060 George Haines: all right, and I can go back and filter 53 00:10:33.180 --> 00:10:42.750 George Haines: and just see the voice threads that I own if I want right, and that filters out the voice threads that have been shared with me from my students. So you can do this. However, you like 54 00:10:44.238 --> 00:10:47.590 George Haines: if I'm I'm using this top 55 00:10:47.810 --> 00:11:01.430 George Haines: option, for like that's like our default option, and that will actually filter this by showing you all the voice threads that you have access to. But it'll put the ones that are most recently active up at the top. 56 00:11:01.550 --> 00:11:09.990 George Haines: So you may notice some of these voice. Threads are created very recently, right October 8, th and then it goes down to October 7.th 57 00:11:10.140 --> 00:11:20.719 George Haines: And then this voice thread was actually created September 3, rd but it was most. It was recently acted on. Someone watched it. Someone recorded a comment on it. So it's closer to the top. 58 00:11:21.217 --> 00:11:31.550 George Haines: This one actually just got a comment on it today. And that's why, even though it's from April 9, th 2020 that's showing up in the upper left hand corner because it was most recently active. 59 00:11:31.710 --> 00:11:42.740 George Haines: Alright. So that's how you'll see. So you don't have to kind of scroll down and look for stuff. If you created something a while ago and you're still getting comments on it. You'll see it right up at the top. 60 00:11:44.290 --> 00:11:47.170 George Haines: All right. So let's get into the creation process. 61 00:11:47.310 --> 00:11:56.839 George Haines: Alright. So I mentioned the 2 elements to any voice, thread the slide content, and the comments. If I want to create a voice thread, I just come up here on my homepage to this plus sign. 62 00:11:56.870 --> 00:12:03.130 George Haines: I click on it, and I can see a variety of ways that I can bring slide content into the voicethread 63 00:12:03.260 --> 00:12:13.009 George Haines: these 2 at the bottom. I wouldn't worry too much about. Take a picture is basically a selfie slide record audio. That's for an audio only slide, which is really only used by Podcasters. 64 00:12:13.496 --> 00:12:16.350 George Haines: These other options you'll probably find more frequently 65 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:22.679 George Haines: useful. So the URL option. If I click on this, I can paste a Youtube link here 66 00:12:22.740 --> 00:12:29.969 George Haines: and click save, and it will actually import that Youtube video into my voice thread as a video slide. 67 00:12:30.040 --> 00:12:56.959 George Haines: just as a word of caution, some videos on Youtube might have different formatting and different settings. So you might not have success a hundred percent of the time. I found that I frequently have success, but I do occasionally run into a video. And it will say, you know, Media couldn't be processed. And in which case you're probably out of luck. You might need to find another video or just grab the link and paste it in the voice thread as a text comment. So I just wanted to make you aware of that 68 00:12:58.160 --> 00:13:06.560 George Haines: the external sources you can go in here and bring in stuff from your Google drive, or from Flickr's Creative Commons licensed image database. 69 00:13:06.740 --> 00:13:11.740 George Haines: You can copy slides and or comments from other voice threads you've already created. 70 00:13:11.900 --> 00:13:22.260 George Haines: You can record directly from your webcam, and I'll show you an example of a student video that does this. You know, students can create presentations. They can also demonstrate stuff. 71 00:13:22.650 --> 00:13:51.240 George Haines: So you know, regardless of what you teach, whether it's music, whether it's nursing whether it's drama, whether it's teacher education, whatever it is that you're teaching. There may be situations where you want students to demonstrate something something where you might, in a face to face classroom, call them up to the front of the class and say, You know, play, you know, play with this backing track in Lydian mode. I want you to improvise, or, you know, show me how you do a Burpee for a physiology class or something. Right? 72 00:13:51.290 --> 00:13:56.349 George Haines: So you can have them demonstrate this stuff in online classes by just using their webcam 73 00:13:56.760 --> 00:14:01.820 George Haines: right? But most frequently you'll probably upload files from your computer. So that's what I'm gonna do now. 74 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:04.629 George Haines: So I'm gonna click, add from device. 75 00:14:04.950 --> 00:14:19.649 George Haines: And I'm gonna get in here and let's say, maybe I'm doing some type of discussion or lecture or some activity about you know, for X-ray technicians something like that or radiology. So I'm gonna upload this stuff. 76 00:14:20.500 --> 00:14:35.979 George Haines: And while it's processing, I can come up here and give it a name. Alright. So in the old voice thread it would force you to kind of give the voice thread a name before moving on to comment. We don't do that in the new one. So just be aware of the fact that if you don't give it a name it'll just be called untitled. 77 00:14:35.980 --> 00:14:51.650 George Haines: and if you create 75 voice threads called untitled, you may have a difficult time distinguishing which one is which. So I always recommend labeling them, titling them appropriately. So I'm going to come in here and let's say this is going to be X-ray activity. 6 78 00:14:52.700 --> 00:14:54.509 George Haines: for week, 4, right, whatever 79 00:14:54.530 --> 00:14:56.000 George Haines: I click save. 80 00:14:56.160 --> 00:15:00.979 George Haines: and that's all set. Now I can rearrange the order of these if I want to. 81 00:15:01.570 --> 00:15:03.040 George Haines: just by dragging 82 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:22.189 George Haines: alright. Now, when I'm ready to comment. I can open the voice right up. I could always add more slides to this. Maybe I want to add a video, or, you know, Powerpoint presentation. I could do everything that I want to do. Add everything that I want, but when I'm ready to open I just click open. And now I can comment 83 00:15:22.280 --> 00:15:31.879 George Haines: alright. So I'm gonna show you commenting a few times because I'm gonna add some more complexity each time 1st time through. I'm just going to show you the most basic of all. 84 00:15:31.890 --> 00:15:35.800 George Haines: Alright. So I'm gonna click on this plus sign in the lower left hand corner. 85 00:15:36.140 --> 00:15:39.929 George Haines: and that opens up the commenting fan, where I can make a text comment. 86 00:15:40.470 --> 00:15:46.539 George Haines: audio webcam and file upload. You can upload an audio or video file. As a comment. 87 00:15:46.580 --> 00:16:08.959 George Haines: the text comments. I would try to reserve those just for, like simple short, you know, one or 2 sentence responses. Or if you're going to share a link, remember, voicethread is a tool that's designed to give you that human presence in your course. So if you're using text, your students are going to follow suit, they're going to use text. And then what you've done is kind of downgrade voicethread to just a standard 88 00:16:09.060 --> 00:16:17.950 George Haines: text based discussion board, which is usually one of the reasons why people get voicethread in the 1st place to get away from doing that stuff. So try to 89 00:16:18.050 --> 00:16:20.510 George Haines: model for your students as best you can. 90 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:33.349 George Haines: Alright. So I'm gonna go with an audio comment. I click on the microphone and your browser may just check. Are you sure you know you can let voice thread access your mic, if that happens, just click, allow. So now I'm recording 91 00:16:33.450 --> 00:16:39.080 George Haines: alright. And when I say I'm going to say whatever it is, I want to say, I can click, stop, and then save. 92 00:16:40.070 --> 00:16:40.840 George Haines: what's that? 93 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:48.949 George Haines: Alright? So that's just a basic comment. I recorded audio. And it shows up in the conversation channel. So I'm going to play this back for you 94 00:16:49.490 --> 00:16:53.019 George Haines: if that happens, just click, allow. So now I'm recording 95 00:16:53.190 --> 00:17:03.289 George Haines: alright. And when I say I'm going to say, whatever it is I want to say I can click, stop alright, so you can play the comment. You see that arrow, if you remember from earlier the threaded replies. 96 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:17.239 George Haines: alright. But now I'm gonna show you that you can annotate on the slides as well. So if I click on the plus sign, I'm gonna go with an audio comment I'm recording. But if I click and drag, I can point stuff out, I can circle. I can annotate 97 00:17:17.637 --> 00:17:31.010 George Haines: I can change colors. So this little squiggle here shows me I can choose different colors, and I can decide if I want my drawings to fade or not. So we call these drawings Doodles. So I'm going to go with the Red Doodle tool. 98 00:17:31.670 --> 00:17:35.629 George Haines: and I have it set to fade. So the original arrows that I Drew have faded 99 00:17:35.660 --> 00:17:37.470 George Haines: all right, but I can see 100 00:17:38.760 --> 00:17:40.280 George Haines: how I can annotate. 101 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:42.999 George Haines: All right. Now I'm going to stop and save that 102 00:17:43.970 --> 00:17:48.880 George Haines: comment. Okay, now, everything that I did. There is captured as part of my comment. 103 00:17:50.140 --> 00:18:01.900 George Haines: Alright. But now I want to show you some next level stuff. So let me go to another slide here and I'm gonna click on the plus sign. And I'm gonna start to record. And I start to annotate. 104 00:18:02.580 --> 00:18:06.720 George Haines: But now I also have a zoom tool here, so I can click on the plus sign. 105 00:18:06.860 --> 00:18:09.659 George Haines: And if I want to pan, I hold down shift 106 00:18:09.910 --> 00:18:11.609 George Haines: and I click and drag. 107 00:18:11.620 --> 00:18:13.300 George Haines: let go of shift 108 00:18:13.400 --> 00:18:19.580 George Haines: I can annotate. I hold down shift, I can pan. I let go of shift. 109 00:18:19.620 --> 00:18:21.149 George Haines: I can annotate 110 00:18:21.870 --> 00:18:24.170 George Haines: right, and I can change colors. 111 00:18:27.080 --> 00:18:29.710 George Haines: Hold down, shift the pan 112 00:18:29.940 --> 00:18:33.489 George Haines: let go of shift and just click and drag to annotate. 113 00:18:33.580 --> 00:18:35.089 George Haines: and I stop and save 114 00:18:36.660 --> 00:18:38.700 George Haines: to record. And I 115 00:18:39.680 --> 00:18:46.950 George Haines: alright! Now I'm going to play this back, and what I want you to notice is that everything that I did during that comment is captured as part of my comment 116 00:18:48.030 --> 00:18:51.199 George Haines: to record, and I start to annotate. 117 00:18:51.910 --> 00:18:56.030 George Haines: But now I also have a zoom tool here, so I can click on the plus sign. 118 00:18:56.180 --> 00:18:58.970 George Haines: And if I want to pan, I hold down shift. 119 00:18:59.230 --> 00:19:00.879 George Haines: and I click and drag. 120 00:19:00.940 --> 00:19:02.610 George Haines: let go of shift. 121 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:08.900 George Haines: They can annotate, they hold down, shift, they can pan or let go of shift. 122 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:10.480 George Haines: I can annotate. 123 00:19:11.210 --> 00:19:27.110 George Haines: Alright! Alright! So that's how to comment on a voice. Right now I can use the navigation arrows down here to go to another slide. I can continue to record annotate. Say, whatever it is, I want to say I can zoom in here. I can pan 124 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:32.983 George Haines: all of that stuff is possible. I stop and I save, and I can continue to go through. 125 00:19:33.530 --> 00:19:45.720 George Haines: Talk my students through these X-rays and what I want them to see and what I want them to talk about what questions I have. You know. What does this tell you when this person presents with this type of you know, abnormality, whatever? 126 00:19:46.450 --> 00:19:54.620 George Haines: Alright. So I want to pause before we get into the examples. And before I get into groups and copying, and all of that good stuff. 127 00:19:55.150 --> 00:20:02.699 George Haines: just to see if we have any questions about the creation process. Is there anything I showed you so far that doesn't quite click 128 00:20:02.770 --> 00:20:07.189 George Haines: or something you were hoping to see about creating a voice thread that I didn't show. 129 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:24.542 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): I think it's a really great. So far you've you've showed us how to upload from our computers and also from Youtube, for instance, 130 00:20:25.130 --> 00:20:34.630 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): And I just wanted to remind everybody who's attending here. If you're in Jg, you have access to onedrive, you have access to cloud storage. 131 00:20:34.760 --> 00:20:53.920 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): So take a photo on your phone, transfer it to your onedrive. And then you can be on your computer and uploading that photo so easily from that you took on your phone, uploading it to your voicethread presentation. So think about that in terms of assignments around and about virtual tours 132 00:20:54.010 --> 00:20:55.570 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): and everything else. 133 00:20:56.390 --> 00:20:58.000 George Haines: Perfect. Yeah, that's a great idea. 134 00:21:02.820 --> 00:21:05.529 George Haines: I'm not seeing any questions 135 00:21:05.600 --> 00:21:08.290 George Haines: right now, but if you do have them, let me know 136 00:21:09.260 --> 00:21:13.550 George Haines: alright. But now let's get into. Let me show you how to create a group and how to share this 137 00:21:13.880 --> 00:21:20.710 George Haines: alright. So I've created this voice thread. If I go back if I click on that Vt. Icon, that'll bring me right back to my homepage, and I can see 138 00:21:20.770 --> 00:21:29.769 George Haines: that that's the most recently active voice thread, and that's the one that shows up in the upper left, right. But now let's say I want to share this with my class. So how do I do that. 139 00:21:30.460 --> 00:21:38.590 George Haines: Well, I'm over here in this groups, Tab, and remember it's collapsible, so it may just be collapsed if you don't see it click on that little chevron, and it pops it open 140 00:21:38.860 --> 00:21:49.279 George Haines: alright. And you want to be on groups. Courses are the same basic idea as groups, except these are automatically created through Lms integration like with canvas. 141 00:21:49.790 --> 00:21:52.789 George Haines: But groups are the ones that are manually created. 142 00:21:52.870 --> 00:21:59.970 George Haines: So I'm gonna go up to the top to this 3 dot menu and click on that. And I'm gonna click, add new group. 143 00:22:00.040 --> 00:22:02.540 George Haines: So let's say, I'm gonna call this one 144 00:22:03.750 --> 00:22:07.049 George Haines: A, let's call this one JHU. 145 00:22:08.290 --> 00:22:09.560 George Haines: Course. 146 00:22:09.710 --> 00:22:11.020 George Haines: 2, 45, 147 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:13.659 George Haines: and I click create. 148 00:22:22.790 --> 00:22:24.649 George Haines: All right. Now, I can see 149 00:22:24.810 --> 00:22:39.490 George Haines: that course has been added right? I'm inside the course right now. The course group. It is empty right? There's no voice threads here. There's no members here, so I can just drag and drop voice threads from my homepage into that group. 150 00:22:39.730 --> 00:22:52.250 George Haines: But the group doesn't have any members. So I'm just dragging it to a place that I I can see and nobody else can see. So what you need to do is add the members. Add your class. So this is like something that you do in the beginning of the semester. 151 00:22:53.010 --> 00:22:59.980 George Haines: You go to the Add Members area. You click on that. You can see who's in the course right now. So far, it's just me. 152 00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:11.969 George Haines: So I click add members, and I have a few choices here, add members from contacts. That's how you can manually add students. You need to add them as a contact, and then you can add them to the course. 153 00:23:12.349 --> 00:23:20.700 George Haines: If you have them in another group or another course group, you can pull them in from there, or you can get a sign up link and have them add themselves. 154 00:23:21.530 --> 00:23:31.449 George Haines: So I'm gonna click, add members via sign up link. I get this pop up and I can copy this link. And now I can paste this in an email to my students. 155 00:23:31.470 --> 00:23:38.180 George Haines: And I can tell them, Hey, sign into your voice, start account, click on this link, and it will add you to the group 156 00:23:39.440 --> 00:23:51.750 George Haines: alright, or you can post it somewhere else in your learning management system, or anywhere else that you want? If you post this link, anybody who is signed into their voice or account and clicks on it will be added to your group. 157 00:23:51.870 --> 00:23:54.340 George Haines: Alright. So that's the easiest way to do it. 158 00:23:56.890 --> 00:24:01.070 George Haines: And that's what I would recommend. So just one more time from the top. 159 00:24:02.480 --> 00:24:04.670 George Haines: I would click, add members 160 00:24:05.430 --> 00:24:27.320 George Haines: and then add members, and I can choose how to do this. So the sign up link is probably the best way to go, but I could go into my contacts. If I wanted to add a student, I would need to add them as a contact. 1st put in their name and email, once they are in my contacts I can check whichever students I want to add. 161 00:24:27.520 --> 00:24:29.810 George Haines: and then add them to the group that way. 162 00:24:29.880 --> 00:24:41.689 George Haines: Alright. So if you have a student that may not be tech, savvy? Or they're taking their time. And you really want them to be in the group. And you, you know, you can just kind of do it yourself. Right? You add them in, and they'll be members 163 00:24:42.460 --> 00:24:43.839 George Haines: all right. Celine, do you have something to. 164 00:24:43.840 --> 00:24:52.709 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): Yeah, I wanted to go ahead and say again, in our use case. A lot of times. Students have never been inside of voice threat until it comes up as an assignment. 165 00:24:52.720 --> 00:25:15.210 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): So if somebody's not been into the Jhu instance of voicethread, they're not going to be your contacts. You can't make them their contacts until they've signed in and become your contacts. So that's why we always advocate using the sign up link when you're talking about courses, however, Co faculty, who are working together on sharing voice threads, even having interviews, or something like that. 166 00:25:15.290 --> 00:25:31.769 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): they might manually add each other. Using that context link. But again, another most frequent question is, where do I get the sign up, Link? It used to be in a different place. Now it is right where we where George just showed us in the add members to the group. 167 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:45.939 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): There is another question in the chat heather asks, is there a way to share the links openly without having a voice side account. So, for instance, somebody who is not part of the J. 2 enterprise, I suppose. 168 00:25:46.580 --> 00:26:15.600 George Haines: So heather. You can do that. However, I would be very cautious with Ferpa. You know, having public stuff out there. You probably want to check with any compliance folks and that sort of thing first.st It can be dicey you know you need permission, and that sort of thing. But there is a way to share publicly. Yes, I can go to my sharing menu for any voice thread, and I can copy the link. I can decide on the permissions. Anyone anyone with the link can view anyone with the link and comment 169 00:26:15.879 --> 00:26:32.109 George Haines: or just make it private, right? So you can decide on all of that stuff. You can copy the link and you can paste it on social media. If you're doing something that involves the public for your coursework. You're gonna want to share securely, though. So to do that, you would just create the group. 170 00:26:32.110 --> 00:26:51.559 George Haines: and then you would drag your voice thread into that group. So I'm just gonna drag and drop that in there. I can decide if I want to share the original or share a copy. So this is going to be a little segue for copying. There's a number of ways to copy, or I should say there's really one way to copy. But there's a number of ways to get there. 171 00:26:52.140 --> 00:27:09.690 George Haines: Alright. So let's say in this case, that voice thread that I created I want to use with, like 4 different sections of the same course. Right? Maybe I have. I teach 4 different sections in the same semester. I create a voice thread, but I don't want to literally share the same conversation with all 4 sections. 172 00:27:09.690 --> 00:27:27.789 George Haines: because I don't want them interacting with each other. I want to kind of keep them segmented from each other in their own course. Groups, right? So what I can do is share copies. So I just drag that voice thread into the group, and I got this pop up. But it says, You know, do you want to share the original? Or do you want to make copies? So I'm gonna say, let's make a copy. 173 00:27:27.810 --> 00:27:32.839 George Haines: I click continue. And now I can decide. Do I want to copy all of the comments? 174 00:27:33.630 --> 00:28:02.210 George Haines: Only my comments or no comments. Typically, you would choose to copy only your comments, especially if you're reusing a voice thread that has student comments on it from last semester. If you're if it's a brand new voicethread copy all comments and copy. Only my comments are going to be basically the same thing right? Because you haven't exposed this to any student interaction yet, but I think it's probably a good habit to get into to just go down to copy. Only my comments all the time that way. You never make a mistake. 175 00:28:02.510 --> 00:28:08.270 George Haines: Alright. So I'm gonna do that. And let's say, this is for week 4. This is for section one. 176 00:28:08.990 --> 00:28:11.140 George Haines: I click, continue. And now, what 177 00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:27.099 George Haines: kind of access should they have view, view and comment or view comment and edit? Typically, you wouldn't want to give students edit access, because then they could delete the voice thread. They could see any moderating comments. So view and comment is usually what you want. 178 00:28:27.430 --> 00:28:30.200 George Haines: Click, continue, and that's been shared with the course 179 00:28:30.410 --> 00:28:32.899 George Haines: right now I can. Let's say I want to share another one. 180 00:28:33.250 --> 00:28:38.250 George Haines: Drag this one in there. Let's say I want to make a copy of that one and share the copy as well. 181 00:28:38.860 --> 00:28:40.350 George Haines: Alright. Once again. 182 00:28:40.570 --> 00:28:43.179 George Haines: That's called Lecture one. And that's for 183 00:28:43.750 --> 00:28:48.760 George Haines: Section one. We're gonna continue. Give them view and comment access. 184 00:28:48.800 --> 00:28:51.989 George Haines: Alright. Maybe I want to share some of these 185 00:28:52.690 --> 00:28:54.679 George Haines: other voice threads with other 186 00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:59.450 George Haines: courses. So maybe this voice thread I want to share over here. 187 00:29:00.470 --> 00:29:02.389 George Haines: and maybe I'll share the original 188 00:29:03.670 --> 00:29:05.100 George Haines: UN comment. 189 00:29:05.110 --> 00:29:08.080 George Haines: Maybe this voice thread I want to share in that. 190 00:29:09.480 --> 00:29:14.460 George Haines: I can decide what I want to do all right. So that's how it works. You just drag and drop in there. 191 00:29:17.320 --> 00:29:37.670 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): George, we have a question from Graham. Graham's asking, can the course roster automatically populate when creating a course group? And I actually want to respond to that, because I know that Graham is a instructor at Bsph and at Bsph, when you're using course, plus, we cannot have any automatic integration. 192 00:29:37.780 --> 00:29:45.900 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): But, Dr. Mooney, if you're teaching at school of medicine or school, of nursing, or any of the other Johns Hopkins schools that are using canvas 193 00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:47.080 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): that 194 00:29:47.150 --> 00:30:12.179 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): will integrate to, I believe. And George correct me if I'm wrong. That will integrate with the classes, not the groups, but again at Bsph, using course, plus. It's not an automatic population. We do advise you to share the link for students to sign up individually. And George, did I state that right about the automatic population from canvas. Lti. 195 00:30:12.180 --> 00:30:12.820 George Haines: In the class. 196 00:30:12.820 --> 00:30:13.420 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): Yes. 197 00:30:13.420 --> 00:30:28.689 George Haines: So with canvas, the students need to go in and click on one of the Lti links that you create, and then they'll be added to the course. So any of the Lti links will work. If they go into the course and click on that link, it automatically creates their account, signs them into their account, and adds them as a member of the course group. 198 00:30:29.670 --> 00:30:30.510 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): Thanks. 199 00:30:32.300 --> 00:30:34.909 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): Dr. Moon, does that answer your question? 200 00:30:35.450 --> 00:30:38.180 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): Great? Thank you. Go ahead, George. Thanks. 201 00:30:38.540 --> 00:30:56.790 George Haines: So one more way to copy you can do this without having to share first.st If I create this voice thread so you can see the original here, right X-ray activity, 6 week, 4. And then the the copy that I just made is right next to it. And let's say I want to make another copy of the original. 202 00:30:56.860 --> 00:31:00.619 George Haines: I can click on that 3 dot menu and go to copy. 203 00:31:01.900 --> 00:31:07.569 George Haines: And it's basically the same idea. Right? I just need to retitle it. It's gonna title it copy of whatever it's called. 204 00:31:07.590 --> 00:31:09.480 George Haines: But maybe this one is for 205 00:31:09.660 --> 00:31:11.050 George Haines: Section 2, 206 00:31:11.240 --> 00:31:19.479 George Haines: and once again I want to copy. Only my comments. I click copy, and that will make that copy. And there it is pops up right away. 207 00:31:19.530 --> 00:31:23.649 George Haines: I can make another copy right. I can even do this from within the voice thread 208 00:31:24.550 --> 00:31:34.489 George Haines: alright. So if I'm if I have the voice thread open, I can go to this 3 dot menu and make a copy. It's all the same thing, and we just let you get there from a few different places. 209 00:31:34.500 --> 00:31:37.700 George Haines: So I copy. I can retitle this one. 210 00:31:38.070 --> 00:31:40.449 George Haines: Maybe this one is for section 3, 211 00:31:41.280 --> 00:31:44.740 George Haines: copy only my comments make a copy. 212 00:31:44.820 --> 00:31:49.669 George Haines: and then I can choose to just close and stay within this one, or I can go to the copy if I want 213 00:31:49.780 --> 00:31:51.200 George Haines: gives you the option here. 214 00:31:51.740 --> 00:31:58.260 George Haines: Alright. So now you can see I've made a few copies here that are all popped up on my homepage. 215 00:31:58.510 --> 00:32:01.910 George Haines: Alright. So there's a number of ways to get there. Any place you see, copy 216 00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:06.760 George Haines: you can make a copy and you're good to go, and then you can just drag and drop it into the groups. 217 00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:14.919 George Haines: Alright. So let's get into some of the more fun stuff. Now let's look at some voice threads 218 00:32:15.090 --> 00:32:28.409 George Haines: and kind of get a better understanding as to how voicethread makes your class more human. That's the big reason to use voicethread. There's a number of reasons. The fact that it's asynchronous makes it much more convenient 219 00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:39.319 George Haines: right. The fact that it's asynchronous allows for a greater depth of conversation and understanding because you have that time to reflect. Right? So if you're asking students a question live. 220 00:32:39.650 --> 00:32:54.159 George Haines: you know you're on Zoom. You're in a face to face class. You just finished teaching them something complex, and you ask them a question, and you get a deer in the headlights. Look, and they're not really sure how to respond on voicethread. They give their computer screen the deer in the headlights. Look. 221 00:32:54.160 --> 00:33:10.479 George Haines: they think about it. They read a little bit, they reflect, they go for a walk, they talk to their friends in the class, they formulate a more coherent answer, and then they record their answer. So just like when you're writing papers, you don't typically ask a student. Sit down, start typing. 222 00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:34.310 George Haines: print it out and give it to me, and I'm going to grade it. You tell them you're gonna have a paper due in 3 weeks. I want your draft due next Monday, you know. I want your topic right you. You do it in stages. You look at their draft, you tell them to revise it. You tell them what needs work. They go back, they fix it. That's the process on voicethread. You can record a comment. You listen to it, play back if it's not exactly what you want, you just cancel and re-record 223 00:33:34.450 --> 00:33:39.438 George Haines: right? And that's something that helps students with anxiety as well. Right? You know the old 224 00:33:39.850 --> 00:33:58.999 George Haines: The old joke from Jerry Seinfeld. That public speaking is everyone's number one fear, which means that at a funeral people would rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy right. That old joke. And that's true. People do get very nervous speaking live. But on voicethread you have the ability to record what you're gonna say. 225 00:33:59.100 --> 00:34:16.349 George Haines: listen to it, cancel, re-record a better version, and just keep iterating until you have what you want. Right? So that's the that's kind of the format that I wanted to let you know. But the human element here is the really big point establishing that social presence. So this 226 00:34:16.370 --> 00:34:30.149 George Haines: example and the examples I show you today may not apply subject wise to what you're doing. Don't worry about the subject matter. Just focus on the type of voice thread that the this is alright. So this is an introduction voicethread 227 00:34:30.150 --> 00:34:47.279 George Haines: any class, regardless of whether it's sociology, organic chemistry, gender studies doesn't matter. They can all have an introduction all right. This one happens to be for a media branding course. So this teacher is going to start things off with an introduction about herself and what she expects from the students. 228 00:34:49.969 --> 00:35:08.510 George Haines: This is our introduction type. Make sure we can figure out voicethread and find the right class for the semester. This is a great tool for us to use as we work on some of our projects, and during some of our hybrid weeks, when we may not be meeting together, you're going to be asked to work here in voicethread, so we can really see and hear each other 229 00:35:08.560 --> 00:35:35.340 George Haines: and replicate a little bit of that in class feeling. So what I want you to do here is I want you to leave an audio or video comment, preferably video under 45 seconds. Or, you know, short is good about what is a brand that you find yourself very attached to, and a quick one? All right. So she's asking students a question about what this course is about your introductions can be simple. Just tell me who you are. You know why you're taking this class. 230 00:35:35.340 --> 00:35:51.939 George Haines: Talk to me about your pets, talk to me about your hobbies. Get to know the students, and they can get to know each other right now underneath. Here you can see all of the student comments. So I'm just going to play a little bit of the student comment. While I do that, though I want you to notice that I can change the size of the comment Bubble. 231 00:35:52.020 --> 00:36:00.650 George Haines: and I can also move it around the screen to a different spot. If I'd rather have the comment, Bubble, be in the upper right corner or the lower left corner, whatever it is. 232 00:36:03.720 --> 00:36:11.780 George Haines: Hi, my name is Myra, and a brand that I've been really interested in lately, is Shein, which is a clothing 233 00:36:12.467 --> 00:36:25.099 George Haines: company. And I've really been interested in their clothes because one day affordable. And they have really nice stuff that I like. Like. I'm really into like T-shirts, and like jeans 234 00:36:25.160 --> 00:36:53.529 George Haines: alright. And so, Celine. Yes, so their captions are there on the bottom automatic. It takes about 5 min for the captions to show up. If you do not see them, it may just be because you have the display turned off in your media player so you can click on the CC. Icon and toggle it to English. It's English or off. Those are the 2 options that you'll have, but you can see the captions down there on the bottom 235 00:36:53.640 --> 00:36:55.569 George Haines: right now. Oh, go ahead! 236 00:36:55.570 --> 00:37:08.110 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): Sorry, and this is automatic. Now, in voicethread, we don't have to turn on or off the captions. We just if we're recording audio, it will create captions. Now. 237 00:37:08.340 --> 00:37:09.260 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): this 238 00:37:10.260 --> 00:37:17.450 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): in the the video preview window, there's also a little CC icon, I believe, next to the out of 40 seconds 239 00:37:17.460 --> 00:37:28.369 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): that will show you the captions alongside that which is separate from the media that was uploaded, the video in the main window turning on or off captions. It's 240 00:37:28.380 --> 00:37:36.545 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): I I have to say. I was part of the testing team a year ago, and I was blown away and really happy when they started. 241 00:37:36.900 --> 00:37:42.120 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): doing all of this. So thank you for showing us that again the new voice thread 242 00:37:42.310 --> 00:37:46.580 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): is really accessible, and thank you for highlighting that. 243 00:37:46.580 --> 00:38:12.320 George Haines: Awesome. Yeah. Whenever you upload any documents, Powerpoint, Pdf, word, document, it automatically brings in the all text. So if you have a student that has a screen, reader. It's all automatic. Obviously, images we don't have like an AI tool that's gonna describe the image that we're hopefully. We'll have that in the future. But for now, if you upload an image and you want to have all text, you'll need to describe it for students that need that. But any documents will automatically have the all text 244 00:38:13.220 --> 00:38:22.470 George Haines: alright. Few other elements here within the comment bubble, you can see the one X. So if I click on this, I can change the speed of the playback for the comment. 245 00:38:22.680 --> 00:38:25.270 George Haines: I can make it faster. I can make it slower. 246 00:38:25.380 --> 00:38:27.249 George Haines: all right. I also have 247 00:38:28.380 --> 00:38:29.960 George Haines: the ability to delete. 248 00:38:30.170 --> 00:38:36.219 George Haines: I can download the comment if I need to. I can record a threaded reply by clicking on the arrow 249 00:38:36.240 --> 00:38:41.560 George Haines: I can click on the lock, icon, to record a private reply that just that student receives 250 00:38:41.600 --> 00:38:51.320 George Haines: alright. Now, Celine mentioned, I can edit the captions. So let's say this is me. I can click on that. CC icon. I can get in here and make any changes that I need. 251 00:38:51.670 --> 00:38:54.409 George Haines: and then save the edits 252 00:38:54.820 --> 00:38:56.200 George Haines: to the captions. 253 00:38:57.640 --> 00:39:02.440 George Haines: Alright. So this is the kind of voicethread that I always recommend starting your semester with. 254 00:39:02.560 --> 00:39:19.160 George Haines: Introduce yourself. Let the students introduce themselves, establish that social presence. It's the single most important thing in any online class is social presence. And this is an easy way to establish it. It's a great way for students to get to know each other and to get some buy in from them. 255 00:39:19.160 --> 00:39:37.480 George Haines: It's a quick and easy way to have some interaction, and it lets students know how to use voicethread in a low stakes way. So if you have an assignment later on in the semester, they're not jumping into a brand new tool or a high stakes assignment. They're already familiar with this because you started to use it for lower stakes stuff on the way up 256 00:39:38.640 --> 00:39:49.750 George Haines: alright. Now, here's another like beginning of the semester type of voicethread. This is one where the instructor uploaded her syllabus. So I'm gonna zoom in a little bit here. So we can see this better. But this is another 257 00:39:50.160 --> 00:40:00.109 George Haines: easy way to bring some human touch to your class. Instead of just uploading a Pdf. And hoping the students read it. You can go through this with them just like you would in a face to face environment. 258 00:40:03.120 --> 00:40:08.919 George Haines: Okay, so this is the 1st page of our syllabus, and of course it has some of the basic information you would expect 259 00:40:08.990 --> 00:40:27.719 George Haines: any syllabus to offer you in terms of the identification of the course. The mission statement of the school of Theology. A broad course, description of the class, a couple of things I want to draw your attention to is a how to get in contact with me. 260 00:40:28.012 --> 00:40:39.430 George Haines: Alright. So I'm gonna pause her there. But you can notice how she's using that doodle tool to annotate on the document, pointing out where things are. So you can draw the students. I there right? A little animation. 261 00:40:39.830 --> 00:40:55.589 George Haines: The human eye is trained to see movement, right changes in movement. If you're sitting in a room, and a fly is buzzing in the corner, you're going to tend to notice it. Right? You see a Doodle tool. It's going to draw your students eye to whatever you're looking at and talking about on the screen. 262 00:40:58.330 --> 00:41:13.759 George Haines: Alright, now, this one, this is more of kind of a standard lecture. Use case. This instructor uploaded a Powerpoint presentation, and just as a pro tip we always recommend exporting your Powerpoint as 263 00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:15.300 George Haines: a Pdf. 264 00:41:15.420 --> 00:41:19.660 George Haines: You can upload a raw Powerpoint file directly to voicethread. 265 00:41:19.670 --> 00:41:30.900 George Haines: but depending on the settings that you have in the Powerpoint, you might notice some text shifts around, or an image may shift or around a little bit, so we always recommend exporting it as a Pdf. First, st 266 00:41:31.290 --> 00:41:36.139 George Haines: and then uploading the Pdf version to voicethread. And that's what this instructor has done. 267 00:41:38.360 --> 00:41:41.100 George Haines: Welcome to our voicethread on legal opinions. 268 00:41:41.250 --> 00:41:49.420 George Haines: But legal opinions are not written primarily for the purpose of telling a lay audience a story about a case in the way that I typically do in class 269 00:41:49.610 --> 00:41:56.270 George Haines: the legal opinion itself. The case text is written to teach a professional audience how the law will apply. 270 00:41:56.660 --> 00:42:14.690 George Haines: because there's a very different task from, say, a novel. All right. So I'm going to stop him there. But you can see, this is for a business law class. But keep in mind this could be any lecture. This could be your Powerpoint, for whatever subject you teach, and this could be you popping out from the conversation channel to deliver that information to your students. 271 00:42:16.520 --> 00:42:35.390 George Haines: All right. Now, this one, this is more of a straight discussion. And just to go back to what I said in the beginning, you'll see that these are all similar in how they look right, but they're designed very differently. So the last one was a lecture. This one's a discussion. It has the same elements, though right? It has a slide, or it has comments 272 00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:45.290 George Haines: in this one you can see. The use of the threaded replies is a little more robust. The last one was just the instructor. The students weren't really engaging. They were just consuming. They were watching. 273 00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:46.540 George Haines: And this one. 274 00:42:46.720 --> 00:42:52.189 George Haines: the students are all engaging. They're using those threaded replies. That's what those circular identity images are 275 00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:56.240 George Haines: when people click on the arrow and they record their reply. 276 00:42:56.470 --> 00:43:00.959 George Haines: it gets attached to the comment as a little circular identity image 277 00:43:02.110 --> 00:43:02.889 George Haines: have discussed it. 278 00:43:06.630 --> 00:43:07.330 George Haines: Universities. 279 00:43:08.500 --> 00:43:16.949 George Haines: Intersectionality is a framework, and this can really be used as a conceptual framework to frame and 280 00:43:17.050 --> 00:43:22.520 George Haines: set up research projects. All right. Now you can see the discussion taking place underneath here. 281 00:43:23.873 --> 00:43:32.980 George Haines: Big job here with this slide and this overview, you provided Katrina of the my mind. Intersectionality is exactly as you said. 282 00:43:32.990 --> 00:43:40.790 George Haines: the relationships between alright. And there's more conversation going on throughout this voice thread. If I scroll down. 283 00:43:41.380 --> 00:43:45.650 George Haines: I really like the point you bring up about how privilege can 284 00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:49.399 George Haines: really great overview of all of the framework 285 00:43:49.430 --> 00:43:54.320 George Haines: right? And you can see you can scroll down in the conversation channel. 286 00:43:54.430 --> 00:43:59.540 George Haines: and then there's more slides with more conversation right now, this next one. 287 00:44:03.400 --> 00:44:05.149 George Haines: Alright. So I do see the 288 00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:34.340 George Haines: question from Beth, yeah. So we have the captions right? And we have the all text. And the the other big thing, you know, when people talk about accessibility, they tend to focus on blind and deaf students. Right? We want to make sure that we have those features that we showed for for those students. But keep in mind, those students make up typically less than 1% of the student body. The number one group that tends to get overlooked is the largest single group, and that's students that have some form of dyslexia. 289 00:44:34.470 --> 00:44:56.940 George Haines: Alright. So dyslexic students make up between 15 and 20% of your student body. They have some form of dyslexia. So if you have a course, that's all text that is the most inaccessible type, of course, for those students. They need that base. They need that voice. They need the audio right? And that's what voicethread provides. So as you could see, voicethread has the captions. 290 00:44:56.940 --> 00:45:12.449 George Haines: Voicethread has the alt text for students that need screen readers. But the whole tool is built around universal design. So it's got something for everybody. Right? It's it's as close to the most accessible options that you have that of any tool that I've seen. 291 00:45:15.120 --> 00:45:29.120 George Haines: Yeah. So Beth, students can record audio webcam text. I know students that you know are deaf. Use sign language. You can use the web webcam for Asl. You can use text. All of those options are available to you. 292 00:45:29.970 --> 00:45:36.200 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): So, George, can you show us so that this goes toward Beth's? Questions? 293 00:45:36.625 --> 00:45:46.260 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): Before we address Tara's question, can you show us in sharing the voice thread again, where you set the permissions of what type of comments 294 00:45:46.290 --> 00:45:50.020 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): are actually allowed, because sometimes faculty 295 00:45:50.080 --> 00:45:54.004 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): do want to restrict it to text-based comments. And 296 00:45:54.530 --> 00:45:57.189 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): Beth, I will say, I believe 297 00:45:57.804 --> 00:46:02.540 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): I'm i i don't. I believe I'm gonna go ahead and include 298 00:46:02.580 --> 00:46:10.200 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): a link to voicethreads accessibility statements. But I do believe that students can actually control the speed 299 00:46:10.220 --> 00:46:15.310 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): of the video playback which also allows for 300 00:46:15.350 --> 00:46:17.901 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): individuals who have processing 301 00:46:18.690 --> 00:46:45.109 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): issues, processing cognitively, or individuals who might need to. Repeat the phrases, etc, for non non English speakers. If you're in an English classroom. Additionally, they can download the captions and transcripts and have a translation tool. Translate those words. But again, in terms of what types of replies that students can put in a voice thread that is controlled by the sharing settings. 302 00:46:45.340 --> 00:46:51.220 George Haines: Yeah, so absolutely so that that one X that's the speed control. Right? You can speed up or slow down the comments. 303 00:46:51.350 --> 00:47:08.240 George Haines: And when you create a voice thread, you always have the option to change any of the playback settings that you want. So let's say you don't want students to make text comments. You only want the audio right? You want to cater to the dyslexic students. You can have it set where the only comment types are microphone and webcam 304 00:47:08.310 --> 00:47:18.220 George Haines: right? Or maybe you have to see the students. So maybe you only want webcam right? You can remove any of the options that you want from the comment fan for any specific voice thread 305 00:47:18.560 --> 00:47:29.420 George Haines: alright. You have a number of different options here. That you can. You can adjust as you like you can have the voice thread start playing automatically when it's opened you can limit the length of their comments. 306 00:47:29.470 --> 00:47:39.130 George Haines: I mean, you can even turn on comment, moderation which I'll get to in a minute. But comment, moderation is just a way to make sure all of the incoming comments to your voice. Thread are hidden 307 00:47:39.180 --> 00:47:50.890 George Haines: so you can still see them, because you're the instructor. But the students won't be able to see or hear each other's. So that's a good tool for assessment purposes. When you create a voice thread, that's an assessment. 308 00:47:50.890 --> 00:47:56.189 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): And and excuse me. Sorry, George, because that goes exactly toward Tara's question. 309 00:47:56.210 --> 00:48:01.210 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): If you want to restrict what students can see. 310 00:48:01.390 --> 00:48:08.509 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): you could have your voicethread comments moderated. And then, after all, the students have completed 311 00:48:08.540 --> 00:48:16.410 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): that prompt or whatever it is that you're concerned about Terrace questions, basically can you require students 312 00:48:16.460 --> 00:48:19.630 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): to post before viewing. 313 00:48:19.630 --> 00:48:39.899 George Haines: It doesn't automatically do that. So you can turn on comment, moderation that makes all the incoming comments hidden, and then to reveal them. You have to manually do that, but you can do it in bulk. So if you go, if you open up the conversation channel and you turn on comment management mode. You can select all of the comments and unhide them all 314 00:48:39.900 --> 00:49:02.359 George Haines: alright and turn off comment, moderation. If you you know, if you want to have it be initially hidden, and then have them engage with each other. You can do that. You can keep moderation on if you just want to keep the comments hidden the whole time, or you can have comment, moderation turned on. Have all the students respond, and then you can go turn it off and reveal all of their comments by unhiding them in the conversation. Channel. 315 00:49:03.900 --> 00:49:06.620 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): Kara, does that address? Your question? 316 00:49:08.010 --> 00:49:09.069 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): Yeah. Great. 317 00:49:09.070 --> 00:49:10.719 Terra Gargano: Absolutely. Thank you. 318 00:49:10.720 --> 00:49:16.000 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): Fantastic. And Dr. Mooney had another question, does limit of length? Yeah. 319 00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:30.459 George Haines: Yeah, so the limit you can set it doesn't. It's it's a time limit. So it doesn't have any effect on text comments. But when you go into you can decide on how long their comments can be. It can be anything up to 59 min and 59 seconds. 320 00:49:30.470 --> 00:49:37.299 George Haines: so you can set their time limit to 1 min, 10 seconds, whatever you want it to be depending on the activity. 321 00:49:37.660 --> 00:49:39.250 George Haines: And that's your option there. 322 00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:50.130 George Haines: all right. So there's another 323 00:49:50.370 --> 00:50:18.650 George Haines: kind of non assessment type of example I want to show you, and this is one that kind of blends the previous 2. So we saw a discussion. We saw a lecture. This is really more of a hybrid of both. This is kind of what you would see in a typical classroom right in a lecture in a face to face classroom. Normally, you're not going to walk into class and start talking and just talk for 45 straight minutes and leave right. You're going to talk for a little while. You're going to check with students and check. You know their understanding. You're going to do some formative assessment. 324 00:50:19.152 --> 00:50:34.280 George Haines: You're gonna answer questions. You're gonna get a hand. Get that gets raised right? So that's what you see in this voice. Right, the teacher lectures for the 1st few slides, and then they have discussion starting on slide 3. So I'm just gonna play a little bit of this. Just so you get a sense of the flow here. 325 00:50:35.830 --> 00:50:39.659 George Haines: Welcome to a voicethread on ethical issues and data collection. 326 00:50:39.740 --> 00:50:48.650 George Haines: This voicethread focuses on the ethical issues in conducting qualitative research and the strategies for addressing the challenges that can arise in the field. 327 00:50:48.740 --> 00:50:53.430 George Haines: It presents ethical scenarios of situations that have occurred or 328 00:50:53.540 --> 00:51:00.099 George Haines: alright. So she. She's gonna go on to explain a little more. And then on Slide 2, she continues on with the lecture. 329 00:51:00.470 --> 00:51:06.830 George Haines: When we think about ethics and research overall. We're really focusing on the broader concepts of justice. 330 00:51:06.850 --> 00:51:09.379 George Haines: magnificence, and respect for persons. 331 00:51:09.520 --> 00:51:31.559 George Haines: These are the main guiding frameworks set all right now on Slide 3. Now we're presented with different scenarios. So she explains what she wants the students to do, and you can see underneath, the students are all engaging with the content. So Becky reads the scenario, and she offers her thoughts, and this is like the equivalent of a 1 page paper. Instead of having students write stuff. 332 00:51:31.560 --> 00:51:47.560 George Haines: I know a lot of people are abandoning written assignments because of Chat Gpt and all the AI tools that can just do that written assignment for the students. So it's really tough to assess whether they actually know anything when you're writing. But when you can hear a student, you can assess them more authentically right. 333 00:51:50.050 --> 00:51:52.599 George Haines: In this 1st scenario 334 00:51:52.610 --> 00:51:57.610 George Haines: there are a few different ethical concerns that I noted. 335 00:51:58.075 --> 00:52:02.169 George Haines: The 1st one is regarding informed consent and coercion. 336 00:52:02.596 --> 00:52:17.379 George Haines: Paget, in her book book states that qualitative research is not compatible with the All right. So she goes on to deliver her comments. A well thought out response to this scenario, and then you can see other students chiming in to give feedback. 337 00:52:19.970 --> 00:52:25.789 George Haines: Hi, Becky, I thought you did a really lovely job unpacking the different ethical issues 338 00:52:25.970 --> 00:52:41.500 George Haines: in this scenario, as well as coming up with some ideas for troubleshooting them. One thing I just wanted to emphasize, and then the teacher, in her sound pedagogical approach, also joins in and gives some feedback to wrap this up. 339 00:52:43.290 --> 00:53:01.040 George Haines: Hi, Becky, this is Robin. It's you raise many of the important issues, and the 1st one that I that you raised, which I thought was also very important, was highlighting the role of informed consent and coercion, and whether students are actually right. And you can see throughout this voicethread on this slide there are more students taking a swing at scenario one. 340 00:53:01.060 --> 00:53:19.439 George Haines: and then on the next slide. There are other students talking about scenario 2, and so on, and so forth. Right? So this is that virtual classroom model that I was talking about right where you have some lecture, some discussion, some back and forth. Right? It's a really rich, robust learning environment right here in this one voicethread. 341 00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:33.519 George Haines: And this teacher does this every week, and you don't really need anything else. Right? I mean, you can deliver information. You can discuss information, and you can assess these students all in this one voice threat. This is kind of like the Swiss army knife of of how to use voice threat. 342 00:53:34.790 --> 00:53:57.790 George Haines: But let's go now on the other side. Let's say you just want to have more of a surgical approach. And you just want to assess students in some kind of simple question and answer stuff. You can do that as well. Right? So you can put a question on a Powerpoint slide like I have. Excuse me like I have. This is one of the quizzes we have in the voicethread certified educator course, and you can see the responses here. 343 00:53:58.680 --> 00:54:03.069 George Haines: Hello, everyone! It's Henry again. This is such a fun way to use the doodle tool. 344 00:54:03.150 --> 00:54:09.400 George Haines: I'm gonna go for C. Yes, it's also green right now. This is a simple version 345 00:54:09.620 --> 00:54:12.659 George Haines: text on a slide right? But you could have a video view. 346 00:54:12.690 --> 00:54:33.600 George Haines: And you could ask students to watch the video and tell you something about the scenario, and you know, use it as a case study. Say, you know, what did person X do incorrectly here? What? What could they have done better? How could they have prevented this, you know, whatever the thing is that you want to assess, you can assess with video, with text, you can have a chart or a graph 347 00:54:33.600 --> 00:54:51.139 George Haines: that you can analyze and go through and tell students to explain what they're looking at. What does this data visualization tell us about the patient or about the business that we're running, or whatever it is that you're assessing. You can have them break this down and analyze it as much as they want. 348 00:54:53.230 --> 00:54:58.759 George Haines: All right. Now this one is another type of assessment. This is one where the student creates the voice thread. 349 00:54:58.860 --> 00:55:03.830 George Haines: Right? So in the beginning I mentioned that you can create a voice thread 350 00:55:04.340 --> 00:55:07.990 George Haines: by recording from your webcam as a video slide. 351 00:55:08.220 --> 00:55:11.659 George Haines: That's what this student does. Right? So it's only a 1 slide voice thread. 352 00:55:11.970 --> 00:55:17.779 George Haines: But what she's doing. She's a nurse, practitioner student, and she's demonstrating a head to toe, exam. 353 00:55:17.830 --> 00:55:46.640 George Haines: Alright. So I mentioned at the beginning that you can use this, for, you know, drama, students for music, students for physiology, students demonstrating exercises, whatever whatever it may be, anything that you need a physical demonstration for you can do. The students can record on their webcam, and you can authentically assess them right. So now just imagine, if this instructor had tried to do this as a text type of assignment where she's saying, list the steps in a head to toe exam. It's not going to be as authentic as what you see here. 354 00:55:55.010 --> 00:56:06.869 George Haines: Hi! My name is Shantae, and I'm a nurse practitioner student at Maryville University today. I will be performing my head to toe assessment on my volunteer deja. Before coming in she emptied her bladder. She was offered a gown. 355 00:56:06.910 --> 00:56:11.540 George Haines: she, her height and weight were measured, a full set of vital signs were taken 356 00:56:11.740 --> 00:56:18.079 George Haines: alright. Now you can pause the video. You can record feedback for the student, continue to play it and go from there. 357 00:56:18.760 --> 00:56:25.779 George Haines: Now, the final example I want to show you is another student created voicethread. This is a simple one, where the student just uploads their paper 358 00:56:25.870 --> 00:56:33.300 George Haines: and you can review it just like you would if you were sitting in the office, and they had printed out a hard copy and brought it to you for review. 359 00:56:33.810 --> 00:56:42.360 George Haines: I like what you wrote here about the banking concept. But what you need to do is put a quote in directly from the source and explain it 360 00:56:43.720 --> 00:56:58.859 George Haines: alright, and you can see how this instructor is using the doodle pencil to annotate just like you would use a red pen in the old days. Right? So that's what you can do on voicethread. You can have a discussion back and forth. The student can even upload a new version of this to this voice thread. 361 00:57:00.160 --> 00:57:05.559 George Haines: Alright! That's everything I had planned to show you today? Do we have other questions? Is there anything else 362 00:57:05.600 --> 00:57:10.050 George Haines: that you want to see? Celine? Is there anything I can show anybody else before we wrap things up. 363 00:57:10.050 --> 00:57:16.109 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): I think for today, we're gonna have to limit it to open questions on what we've seen so far. 364 00:57:16.330 --> 00:57:23.369 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): However, I do have more resources for everybody that I'd like to share. 365 00:57:23.420 --> 00:57:31.709 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): But at this point, if anybody wants to unmute themselves, if you had an outstanding question that we could get back to you about if we don't have time today to 366 00:57:31.950 --> 00:57:33.450 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): do a show and tell. 367 00:57:36.260 --> 00:57:40.267 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): This was a wonderful opportunity, as people 368 00:57:40.870 --> 00:57:46.190 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): think of anything, lingering questions, feel free to email me. 369 00:57:46.527 --> 00:57:51.710 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): But, George, I'm going to go ahead and share my screen. I want to thank you so much 370 00:57:51.780 --> 00:57:52.500 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): for 371 00:57:53.880 --> 00:57:56.554 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): for being with us today. 372 00:57:57.500 --> 00:58:01.999 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): but I am going to replace the current share. Yeah. 373 00:58:02.340 --> 00:58:03.790 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): And 374 00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:10.273 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): yeah, so just real quick. I had typed this in the chat. 375 00:58:10.910 --> 00:58:12.840 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): that the 376 00:58:14.060 --> 00:58:29.319 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): the 2 min workshop evaluation survey we're asking people to complete if you can do it today. That would be fantastic. But it will be in the follow up email. However, the other resources I typed in the chat included our Ctl teaching toolkit site. 377 00:58:29.390 --> 00:58:46.759 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): ctltoolkit.com where we do have a little bit of information about voicethread. You can search in the search bar for voicethread. But if you want to get directly to using the Jhu instance of voicethread. Please go to jhu.voicethread.com 378 00:58:46.830 --> 00:58:55.889 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): for voicethread support. You don't need the J. 2. You can either go from after you've logged in or visit directly voicethread.com slash how to 379 00:58:56.110 --> 00:59:20.000 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): for general support with voicethread or anything else related to your teaching and learning at the Bloomberg School. Please email Ctlhelp at Jhuedu. And lastly, I just want to put in a plug for our upcoming events, including getting people ready for term 2 with our course, plus refresher. You can find a registration link for this and other events@ctltoolkit.com 380 00:59:20.070 --> 00:59:22.170 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): slash events. 381 00:59:22.720 --> 00:59:29.569 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): And, George, I'm gonna go ahead and ask you if you want to say any final words before we leave. 382 00:59:29.880 --> 00:59:35.940 George Haines: No, I just wanted to say thank you to everybody. I do see one question from Beth, and we are actually working on a group 383 00:59:36.334 --> 00:59:58.410 George Haines: assignment option that's going to be available at some point in the future, and we'll let everybody know when that's available for right now, we don't have a group specific assignment, but that is coming down the road. And we're also working on rubric grading in the Lms. That's for those folks that use voicethread in canvas. But I just hope everybody has a great rest of the semester, and happy voicethreading everybody. 384 00:59:58.990 --> 01:00:07.310 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): Thanks so much, and Beth feel free. I will actually try and reach out to you. I do have some ideas that might be able to assist you in in that endeavor. 385 01:00:07.580 --> 01:00:11.490 Celine Greene (BSPH CTL): Thanks again, and I'm going to stop the recording. Have a great day. 386 01:00:11.840 --> 01:00:12.639 George Haines: Take care!