History

VoiceThread is not just another post and share site to let everyone see what was done over the weekend. Anyone who has access to the document can post comments, written or voice, to be shared with everyone else. This amazing new piece of technology was created at the University of North Carolina, so students would be able to add more depth to their postings on the internet (Educause, 2009). VoiceThread allows the user to add the subtle nuance that only a person's voice can lend to a conversation. Now a sarcastic remake will not be missed or misinterpreted.

Ninety percent of VoiceThread's users are in the education field and Steve Muth, cofounder of VoiceThread, was quoted as saying, “for all of the talk of the web 2.0 tools and social interaction, the truth is that these tools have not penetrated beyond the surface level consisting of the ‘edtech elite.’ We really want to reach the other 95% who don’t use the web beyond email, or perhaps their LMS (Learning Management System) interfaces.” (Meyer, 2009).A number of colleges and universities around the United States has encouraged the use of VoiceThreads to increase the depth of its education. At The University of Connecticut, their writing program has been using VoiceThreads to encourage the practice of digital storytelling and Sierra College has been using VoiceThreads in their distance learning courses to make it feel more like a face to face setting for students (Educause, 2009).

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