Voicethread: Massive Open Online Course

My group's Voicethread project addressed the impact of Massive Open Online Courses.  The Voicethread is embedded below:


https://voicethread.com/share/3222658/

I selected question 7 on Massive Open Online Course because I was already aware of and curious about open online courses, such as MITx.  I was late getting oriented with my group and they made the slide show without much help from me.  I think the slide show they did provides excellent coverage of the topic as discussed in the references.  Luckily, one advantage of Voicethread is that it makes it relatively easy for latecomers to play a role by adding comments. 

I used Voicethread last year in another course.  That time I did not realize that you could have more than one recorded comment per slide until after we had completed the project.  This time I did not realize you could make a comment and have it extend over multiple slides, as Adriana did.  I don't think I'd personally use that option anyway.  Making a long comment without flubbing part of it is too difficult for me!

I really like the flexibility in adding comments to a Voicethread.  In my other class this summer Dr. Ramsey gives us his PowerPoint lectures to look at on laptops in class, discuss in group, then later he lectures on them (or not if we don't need it).  It would be interesting to take that approach, but put the slideshow into Voicethread and have students add comments to slides as they want to.