I have again engaged with this technology and identified as to how I would use it in my teaching, specific to my current group of learners: Year 11 Geography (EPL 5). I have uploaded my slide show “Brisbane Sustainability” to Voice Thread which I then intend to use in either week 7 or 8 with my 11 Geography class to consolidate the unit “Sustaining Communities”. The presentation is simply images of Brisbane that depict topics covered throughout the unit: urban sprawl, urban decay, CBD, infrastructure and megacity.
I intend on using Voice Thread with these learners in terms of allowing them access to this technology and slide show, look at each image for several minutes and then start to comment with each other (via the tool) on what they believe the image is conveying and the social, economic and ecological issues associated with each image. By students evaluating the images in terms of these key issues (social, environmental and economic) it is meeting the requirement of the Senior Geography Syllabus (Queensland Studies Authority, 2007).
This delivery technology used in the context of this particular learning experience, conforms to Oliver's Learning Design Model (1999). This is evident in the sense that adequate scaffolding or the learning of knowledge throughout the term has equipped students with a solid understanding of these terms/concepts, so that when it comes to applying this knowledge via the ICT (Voice Thread), they can successfully do so.
References:
Oliver, R 1999, Learning Design: The Learning Design Construct, viewed 9 August 2009, http://www.learningdesigns.uow.edu.au/project/learn_design.htm.
Queensland Studies Authority 2007, Senior Syllabus: Geography 2007, viewed 20 August 2009, www.qsa.qld.edu.au.
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